@gardenmonster.bsky.social

@gardenmonster.bsky.social

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I started with a few pots on an apartment balcony trading life for corporate ladders. I have since farmed veggies on a 1/4 acre & may again be eyeing ladders. Feel free to holler if the books/YouTube/etc don't help you grow better than organic food. 💚

A bathroom with with a person in a wheelchair, a person with a dress, a person without a dress, a person with half a dress, and an alien in a Playboy pose that says 'Whatever, just please wash your hands" Restroom.
Screen shot of Wiki revision page.
Garlic shoots coming up cheerful green from brown soil and light brown twigs left by overarching Cottonwood, Walnut, Maple, and Locust elders.
Bare trees with early buds over a recovering wetland with a river, a Sunbeam, brown earth.
Siberian Squill blooming tiny, mighty, and blue against timid green grass and tired brown twigs.
Halves of orangish Thelma Sanders acorn squash on a silver wire rack on a grey/black pan before going in the oven to roast for pie.
Bulbs underground: I can feel the warmth of the sun. I hear birdsong. Nature awakens! It's time to sprout! Daffodils in a dark rainstorm blown sideways: Idiot!
A brown puppy with one blue eye and one brown eye and floppy ears.
The inside of a food processor with a grey spindle and a clear bowl holding half a pie crust that is yet to be rolled or baked but holds definite potentiality of crusty-goodness.
A wrinkled pinkish potato caught by its sprout in another potato's sprout through the open gap handle of a grey crate with a white lever.
Eastern bluebird in the lower left quadrant of a picture of bare tree branches.
A big brown dog far away in a yellow-brown field of sleepy grass with a big blue sky, a couple light poles, and a few fuzzy short trees on the back left.
Purple potatoes chopped in a bowl with glass jars in the background.
Big brown doggie with black ears and one blue eye at the end of her leash in the snow.
Little moist soil cubes with little dented nests awaiting seeds that are awaiting that moisture and that soil in order to sprout.
Little pebbles of hail on wood chips and spruce cones and twigs.
Toasty homemade sourdough dinner rolls on a grey-ish looking kitchen towel.
Apple Cinnamon scones with cream cheese drizzle. We made so many jars of shredded spiced apples during the glut of a few years ago.
A kid's school worksheet that reads: I dream of a world where everyone gets what they need. Where everyone chooses the right decisions. Where there are no wars. Where there are no "isms." Where there was no pollution. Where everyone is paid the same.
Swiss Chard green leaves after wintering for months under snow.
Red trumpet flowers of Texas Hummingbird Sage / Scarlet Sage on a purple-y stalk with bright green leaves.
A toasty loaf of challah sandwich bread in a grey pan with a plant in the background and some red from the bottom of a blender.
A skillet-sized puffed pancake with a face like Oogey Boogey from Nightmare Before Christmas on a white platter.
Foreground: a messy pile of garlic dried skins after peeling the cloves. Midground: a silver bowl Background: women's gold medal hockey on the TV on a brown piece of furniture
Foreground: peeled russet potatoes on a cutting board. Mid: chopped potatoes in quart jars Left back: blue and white vase with dried flowers Straight back: windows showing bare trees Right back: green leaves of an orange tree
A large tree trunk with big round growths on it against a light blue winter sky.
A maybe-blurry picture of cinnamon rolls and blueberry rolls with icing.
An outlet and the wires behind it in a metal box set into a tiled wall.
A shiny new light switch and outlet in a shiny new face plate that I rewired and installed as a total newb.
Jason Segel as Mike in SLC Punk
Yes, you can just buy the little organic potatoes at the store, wait a few weeks, and then plant one every 8" in row or one per gallon pot. Water them like the plants they are.
Yellow and red Maple leaves mixed together on a grey sidewalk you can barely spy through their blanket of ending.
15 quart jars full of creamy looking chicken stock on a grey-brown-ish counter in a kitchen.
A deep green head of broccoli smiling in the morning light with a few drops of melting sleet on top and leaves all around.
A picture of John Lennon and the quote: When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor. John Lennon
A single lavender Yarrow blossom in stark early morning sunlight with green behind and around.
A brown dog with one blue eye and one brown eye with dirt all over her snout looking thought a black truck's open window.
Brown chickens with red combs stand in an open coop doorway staring at snow.
Icy chicken wire fencing.
A screen shot of election results showing Texas Senate District 9 flipping blue for Rehmet.
A brown chicken with red comb and orange eyes a little blurry as it gets real curious real fast about the camera lens.
A pointy S drawn in green
Old glass jars from Grandma full of cloudy liquid with some little bubbles and one jar says " ATLAS mason" on it.
A line chart showing that bedtime is real for ages 0-7, not real for ages 7-30, and real again after 30.
Sebastian as a pumpkin. Amphibious Mr Potato Head as a pumpkin.
Maple is dancing in its autumn dress with Morning Sun and Dewy Mist over Crunchy Meadow.
Oakleaf Hydrangea leaves turning deep red as they prepare to feed the soil, fringed in white frost.
A little frost faerie appearing as a milkweed seed among the frosty weedy path from here to there and there to here, unplanned smiles are everywhere.
Brown chickens on green pasture with painted skies bringing breath and space back to this tired human.
A wide river under a partly sunny sky with trees on both banks and a pair of swans seen as two white dots in the middle of the river.
A level of Battle Block Theater
A scene from Grosse Pointe Blank where John Cusack is closely staring at a bully's face
Roiling clouds above fall tree tops. Or Sky Squids, as the youngest called them.
A chonky grey chicken hops for sunflower seeds.
The sun bursting jubilantly through the air, swirling the mist of a meadow cloud and blowing rays of light through the dense dark dim of the evergreen. A slightly glowing 2 track of green painted down the brown tall grass and a light blue sky just starting its day.