Planted a new-to-me variety of pine berries in my Greenstalk vertical garden a week or two ago and they’re already pupping all over the place 🌱

Found this tiny cutie in the house so we moved him back outside. 🌱

I had to rehome some monarchs temporarily but they are slowly making their way back outside

Squeezing an entire fresh tree-ripened orange right into my mouth is a spring decadence that will never ever EVER get old or boring and is perhaps among my best reasons to continue living here in California 🌱🍊🍊🍊🍊 #sunshinetax #california #valencia

Yesterday I washed and chopped up a couple garden beets and their greens outside and had both for dinner. 🍽️ 🌱🫜 All the beets and the greens got eaten 😋 I then planted more seeds so I can keep enjoying them as long as they’ll keep growing for me #zone10 #vegetable #gardening

Repotted my little big man (blue Java banana) today. The cavendish we planted in ground died back (visible here behind the Java) so I want to see if there is any difference leaving him potted long-term because ..so far so good. 🌱🍌🤷‍♀️ #zone10 #gardening

Vegetable germination has been pretty bad this winter with all the hot dry weather here (RIP carrots and bunching onions) but I do have a couple Red Acre cabbage coming in strong and they’re very pretty 🌱🥬 #vegetablegarden #zone10

My papaya trees are still growing! The only other time I got them to germinate and grow we ended up moving and had to leave them behind right as they started fruiting XD Very happy that this time the papaya bounty will be all mine! 🌱

We have propagation! This is not a drill! (Chaste tree) #gardensky 🌱

Mornings have been a cooler with the fog rolling in each night. Today it’s still overcast. I love lighting the first fire of the season.

Neat I hope this goes better than my previous attempt to learn to crochet.

A little shout out to #Greenstalk for saving my strawberry plants. I was going to rip them all out for the fruit only being eaten by slugs/snails every year. Instead, this year I actually got to enjoy a few strawberries!🍓 Now that they have established I’m sure next year will be even better 🌱

My first summer with zinnias and DEFINITELY planting them again! Big and beautiful 😍 I will be moving them tho. I greatly underestimated how tall and lanky they would grow 🌱 #flowerreport

Thus far in October, I have planted cucumber, edamame, carrots, snap peas, bunching onions, bulbing onions, leeks, cabbage, lettuce, sunflowers; & transplanted peppers and mini pumpkins. 🎃 The cucumber is already pretty much over but it was good while it lasted! Excited for my future bounty 🌱

Saw this guy as I returned home from walking the dog. 🐕 🦋 Monarch taking a well earned break. 🌱 Same bro. 😎

The collected bones from three Costco rotisserie chickens means it’s time to make some chicken stock for chowder! 🍽️ Sadly only the herbs are home grown this time as squash doesn’t make good stock ROFL 🌱 But now I’ve planted all my aromatics for fall/winter harvest 🧅🥕

Look at this awesome guy! This is why I leave the plants that look like they’re just sad aphid colonies because those draw in all the secondary biodiversity. I get so much joy out of going out the front door and discovering something new. 🌱🦋🐞 #insect #bug #preyingmantis #permaculture

Whoa this one is new! A grape sphinx moth. 🍇🐛🌱 Truly “grow it and they will come”.

I did not expect that the color variation in fruit on this grafted 4 in 1 pluot tree would be so distinct or so pretty! 🌱 🌳

My first time successfully germinating edamame! 🌱🫘🫛

We *intended* to get a trellis up but life happened and now (a year or so later) the grapes are living their best uninterrupted life. 🌱🍇🍇🍇

Any idea what’s wrong with my papayas? 🤔 My hope is it’s just stress from being transplanted mid-summer. 🌱☀️☀️☀️ #papaya #planthealth #gardening

Two week check in and the mango volunteer is seemingly doing fine in its new location! 🥂🌱

Burned myself real good yesterday. 🔥🔥🔥 I was only going to be outside for a ‘short time’ 🤥 lol. What a lie. That is never true 🤪 I hate dressing up like I’m going to war just to go outside but so be it!! 🧑‍🏫 no exceptions!!

This little guy resting on the chamomile 🌱🦋 #flowerreport #butterflyreport

Grapes are looking AWESOME. Still a bit too tart but another month should do it. 🌱🍇

Yup. Definitely mango. I’ll replant it elsewhere and we’ll see how it goes 🌱

I have a volunteer .. mango?? That is unexpected. 🌱

Wow dude how RUDE read the label 🙄 🌱 #gardening (It’s a volunteer tomato not the pepper I was trying to grow)

I have lived in that area and seen these workers out in the fields during rainstorms and during the pandemic. This Is Where Your Food Comes From America

FINALLY! First tiny signs of life from my pepper trays. 🌱 While the pepper seeds I personally kept from last year are already germinated and planted out..🌶️ maybe these purchased seeds are just old? That’s a bummer if so. I was excited about the new varieties. 🫑

This cute 🐝 catching a quick nap in a poppy this morning 🌺

Out checking on things & found a nest in the plum! 🪶🪺 I’m proud to have spent the last 3 years transforming 🌱 this back yard from literal bare earth 💀 to a lively place that feels like home to someone ❤️ While in the front yard, we always pass through a flutter of butterflies 🦋 Beautiful thing 😍

My random compost-planted winter squash / feral garbage pumpkins) are thriving! Think they’ll make it to Halloween 🎃? 🌱

A perfectly ripe Babcock peach 🍑 #fruit #tree #foodforest 🌱

So excited for grapes! 🍇 We spent all last year training this guy and we shall be rewarded 🌱

Going to sleep well tonight 😴

Baby lemons 🍋 🌱

Baby Buddha hands!!! 🌱🍋

No one told me they would look like deep fried RATS 🤣 Taste much better than rats but that’s not a surprise about battered and fried cheese 😋

Onions can divide!???

Today’s harvest 🌱🥙🍑 Going to try squash blossoms for the first time!

Chamomile! 🌱🌼 So ..do I pick it now for tea? ☕️ Is there a ‘best’ flower stage? 🤔 #herbaltea

Emerald delight #zucchini. 🌱 This pot will not be large enough for the coming bounty but .. we’ll make it work :D

Photos from the garden today 5/27/25 Babcock peaches 🍑, thornless blackberries, thyme + 🐝, rhubarb seedling 🌱 #gardentour #fruit #permaculture #vegetablegarden

Guess I’m glad raccoons don’t have direct interest in cucumber seedlings! 🌱 🙌 Love the image of a fat 🦝sticking his little hand through the mesh bars

And yup I had tried growing them in a bunch of seedling pots and only after I gave up and threw all the dirt into a big pile in the corner and ignored it They germinated 🌱

I went to Costco to buy shoes on sale and.. it happened again! 🌱 Okay so … hear me out 😘 … I had already put the palm outside for the summer … so … I had an extra indoor plant space to fill! What else could I do?? 😳

I went to Costco and somehow this 🥥 coconut palm 🌴 fell into my cart and I paid for it and I drove it home. 🌱 🤗

Pineapple Update. They all look worse as they’re getting established .. but not dead yet!