Plant of the Day

Sunday 9 July 2023

Clumps of the cormous perennial Gladiolus nanus cultivar (sword lily) are flowering in this cottage-style community garden in Orkney, Scotland.

Jill Raggett

The beginning…

I was able to get two plots at the local community garden. I attended my first meeting yesterday. We shared Indian food and introduced ourselves.

They are gardeners originally from Los Angeles, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Colorado, Mexico and New Orleans who now live locally in South L.A. Everyone was kind and had different levels of gardening experience.

I’ll be growing plants for workshops, classes, displays and my restoration project. Gives me a spot to experiment with flowers as well. I’m setting up a pepper patch!!

Full Moon Eclipse Day in Midtown. 🌸

According to the Hunter College of New York City Food Policy Center, approximately 23.8% of Harlem is food insecure compared to 15.4% of New York City residents. The ratio (1:11) of supermarkets to bodegas in Central Harlem decreases access to healthier fresh foods. This is a major factor in the higher rates of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes in the area. Uptown Good Food allow those who qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP/EBT), Women Infants And Children (WIC), Over-the-Counter (OTC), Health Bucks & FreshConnect to purchase fresh produce and participate in the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Learn more and signup at: ubbicycle.org/health #WeAcceptSNAP #healthbucks #Harlem #harlemnyc #washingtonheights #washingtonheightsnyc #healthyliving #communitygarden #knowyourfarmer #eatlocallygrown #harlemcsa #earthtotable #farmfreshfood (at Harlem) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-F6tyPp8q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The herb garden is just exploding!!! And also look at all the pretty flowers! Some mine, some other gardeners’, amazing what you can do with 24h of daylight! (Not these days though! As we near the equinox the days are shortening fast and hard. Up to a bit over 8.5h of night these days!) #garden #horticulture #plant #greenthumb #herbgarden #flowers #gardener #farmher #communitygarden #nature #beauty #dawsoncity #yukon #yukonterritory #midnightsuncountry (at Dawson, Yukon Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chikyk0P4mA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

We love our Growing Rural Garden Program at the St John Lutheran Vineyard Garden in Boerne!!! ❤️🌿🍅🥒🫑❤️ We have been growing and growing and our garden gifts abound!! Wow! ❤️🥗🌺🌶🍅🌿❤️ We are taking applications for our Fall Garden Season NOW. SIGN UP to join our gardening team NOW so you can Garden with us!! Go to www.alamorcd.org under Growing Rural and get our Garden Welcome Packet now! ❤️🌿🍅🥒🫑❤️ #waterlandyou #garden #communitygarden #gardening #arcdgardens #lovegardening #growyourown #veggies #harvest #produce #food #growyourownfood https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce9iyo2uFks/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

On Saturday, July 8, 2023 from 9:00am to 12:00pm, the garden will be giving away free bags of DSNY compost. Up to 2 bags per household. Each bag is 40 pounds. First come, first serve until we run out of bags!

🚨 Enjoy the fruits of your labor

Take time to enjoy your garden and the fresh produce it provides. Share your bounty with family and friends, or consider donating excess produce to a local food bank or shelter.

📸Collected

Comin on hotttttt with the pepper tips todayyyyy. If you’ve been around a while then you will know that we are a pepper & tomato producer (we grow other things too of course but these are $$$ at the markets) These are a few of the tricks in the garden we use to get the best harvests of a wide variety of peppers! Have you tried these? Drop a comment with your questions and your fave variety of pepper. Be sure to save this for later & follow for more. . . . . . . . . . . #gardening #homegrowntomatoes #tomatoplant #tomatoes #growagarden #communitygarden #communitygardens #communitygardening #backyardgardener #gardenerslife #gardenersofinstagram #heirloomseeds #heirloomtomatoes #heirloomtomato #growingtomatoes #growingtomatoesfromseeds #seedlings #gardenpro (at In The Garden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDbG5lOWPw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 31 May 2023

As part of a community project fruit and vegetables are being grown in the forgotten spaces of Stromness, Orkney. These included Allium schoenoprasum (chives) a bulbous perennial that forms clumps of narrow cylindrical, onion-scented leaves, with rounded light purple flowers.

Jill Raggett

Sorrel coming up in my community garden plot but already an animal is eating it. #Hamont #CommunityGarden #GardenPlots #Sorrel https://www.instagram.com/p/Co25eYtORIu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Cameras and Coffee with Scott Millington, 8/13/23.

Check out our chat here!

Addison and Avondale Mural Garden, Chicago, Illinois.

Photo c/o Intern Neighborspace, 2016

Visited the Three Sisters Garden East while at a Beltsville Garden Club meeting in Greenbelt, MD. What a terrific idea and I plan to visit the two other Three Sisters gardens in Greenbelt this spring-summef when things are up and growing. #gardendc #dmv #communitygarden #pgco #greenbelt #picoftheday #nofilter (at Greenbelt, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clv6XcxuyFo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Before and after and planted! Welcome to my first ever community garden plot 😁 I got real deep in there to get the quack grass roots but I’m sure I’ll be battling all summer with those buggers. Otherwise my herbs, tomato and strawberries are planted! Probably the earliest I’ve planted my garden ever… not bad for the subarctic!! #garden #gardening #dawsoncity #yukon #subarctic #subarcticgardening #agrarian #farmher #homesteadlife #greenthumb #herbgarden #veggiepatch #growyourown #growyourfood #foodsecurity #hashtagwhore #communitygarden #horticulture (at Dawson, Yukon Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CebgDaZF7hV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

What a wonderful Garden Beautification DAY! We gathered together today at our Vineyard Community Garden at St John Lutheran Church in BOERNE to paint the back fence! SUCH GREAT FUN! What an AWESOME TIME!! ❤️ 🌿 🌺 🌶🍅🍓🥒 🌺 🌿 ❤️ Good Friends! Great job done! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Good times! Working together makes it happen! Garden Beauty! Gardening/working with friends feels good! THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR VOLUNTEERS AND SPONSORS!! ❤️ 🌿 🌺 🥒🌶🫑🥗🍆🐝🌻🍓🍆 🌺 🌿 ❤️ #waterlandyou #garden #friends #community #communitygarden #together #getitdone #beauty #lovegardening #bettertogether #painting #paint #beautify https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd1wNL-sdb9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=