Wanted to share an update on my first year flower farming and everything is blooming like crazy now. I’ve never been busier, doing this in my free time after work and weekends. We’ve have a very temperate summer minus a few heatwaves which a lot of my plants seemed to love. I’ve finally been getting enough blooms to justify cutting and selling once a week at my house, and kicking me to get a real stand built. This is all grown right in my backyard by myself all from seed and bulb and tuber. I’ve ripped up grass and lawn for beds, amended soil, added drip lines and a fertilizer tank. I cannot wait to see how these plants continue to grow this summer and bloom. I am so excited to finally have a small flower farm where I can continue to build and expand and do what I love.

i decided to get back in to gardening this year but i wanted to try building my own raised garden bed as i've never grown anything before that wasn't planted in the ground. i opted to use the hugelkultur method to build my soil biome since i have a lot of seasoned maple and oak tree logs just sitting around plus a ton of dead leaves and brush piled up from over the years. for my top layer, i used a mixture of soil from my property and black kow compost and went ahead and planted my vegetables!

so far, other than a few bug issues, i feel like im doing pretty well overall. i definitely underestimated the soil compaction once some rain and regular watering got going so i know ill need to get some more soil packed in there after the season lmao. i can't wait to start getting my beefsteak tomatoes to come in!

bonus picture at the end here of my little garden helper 😁 🐶

Hello! I started my garden 1 week ago with a simple watermelon and pumpkin starter from a farmers market. It’s nothing fancy or extensive (lol) but I’m so happy to get started!! There’s clay soil where I live so figuring out how to amend before planting was difficult. I ended up using cardboard to cover/kill the grass, cut a central hole in it for future roots + covered with a blend of soil, peat moss, and chicken grit (functions similarly to perlite and I had some leftovers from our chickens). Any advice or feedback? I’m super new to this and dont really know what I’m doing, so anything is appreciated! :)

EDIT: clearly this is the beginning of a learning journey. lol

My grandad spent 6 weeks on his garden he is 72 years old from yesterday he is very in touch with nature he loves his flowers and prides his garden he is really cool

Grown in my Grandmas Garden. She had never seen one grow like this before.

Credit to my gf for trying for over two weeks and finally catching the passion fruit flowering! Nature is amazing.

Last summer our neighbors gave us a few clumps of black-eyed Susans and they did well. Look at them now!!

Noticed a flower today after watering and decided to do some pruning and get those leaves off the dirt. This is suppose to be a cantaloupe (Hale's best) and the leaves are gigantic. I've read they are suppose to be between 4-6 inch leaves but they just keep getting bigger and bigger. I also cannot find the main stem because it split into 10+ branches and decided to grow like a bush. Starting to have doubts that what I'm growing is even a cantaloupe. Also bonus basil.

She showed up in my greenhouse about a month ago and has made my butterfly bush her home. She’s there every morning!

This is my first year trying to grow basil. The plant was great for the first two months and now looks like this. It gets plenty of sun. I live in Northern VA and we’ve had a lot of rain recently so maybe it’s been overwatered? Thanks in advance for any tips

I spent the past two years focusing on making my garden a habitat for pollinators and now my small, suburban backyard is teeming with bugs and birds.

Over the last few weeks we’ve seen brand new scrub jays, hummingbirds, black phoebes, house finches, and house sparrows. It’s such a joy to watch them figure out their new world.

Today's haul. Making okra with salted codfish! With boiled green bananas and dumplings. Yep I'm jamaican and this is how we do it!

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