homegrown

jenna | 22 | zone 7a | gardener and aspiring green witch

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Some plants. 

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Apple tree is finally putting out some fruit that actually looks good. Still probably not tasty though.

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The garden is still giving us gifts.

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Dahlia ‘Kate Mountjoy’. The National Dahlia Collection, Penzance. September 2020.

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Baby watermelons ❤️

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>Dahlias

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Roses bu Spiritual eyes instagram

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Update on the little garden at the park. I saw a bunch of little pollinators and a few strands of spider web in it. I love to see life there.

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Aster amellus (Hybrid European Michaelmas daisy) 

At this time of year, many species of flowering plants have set seed but asters in general are at their peak. Michaelmas daisies are named after St. Michael whose feast day falls on September 29. 

In 1637, John Tradescent the Younger brought North American asters to Europe. These were crossed with Aster amellus to create the many beautiful varieties that grace our gardens today. 

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This echeveria ‘Onslow’ gets the award for most prolific leaf-er out of my whole collection. by PermanentAtmosphere

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Experiment in Mead Making

With help from The Wildcrafting Brewer by Pascal Buadur, I’m hoping to turn some of this years first honey harvest into a batch of mead made from the local land to be used for ritual celebrations, offerings, and the like.

Step one: Harvest honey! (✔️)

Step two: cultivate wild yeast [✔️]

Hopfully using some peels from wild apples and raw honey will create an active wild yeast starter to use for brewing. In a few days it should be nice and bubbly (fingers crossed).

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Success! Alive and active wild yeast. Lots of bubbles, smells sweet and slightly like alcohol seems like it’s ready to go.

Step 3: Mix Brew [✔️]

3lbs of honey is mixed with just enough water to fill the gallon carboy with headspace. Baudur’s recipe calls for the addition of 10 rasins for yeast nutrition but to keep it local I added a small handful of dried wild blueberries.

Then the brew is pitched with 3/4 cup of the wild yeast (the left over kept to continue experiments with the honey bug) and topped with an airlock.

Step 4: Wait...

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Asters—they waited all summer barely noticeable and now they cover the landscape in millions of blooms just as the goldenrod starts to fade.

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THE ROSE TOWERS

These are last year’s photographs of the rose towers holding ‘Madame Isaac Periere’ and ‘Reine des Violettes’. This year the new rusted metal towers are in place so the roses should do better with higher and stronger supports.

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Pollinators on the lavender and echinacea!