#growing things

[ryothewood]

I love growing things so much. The harvest is a part of it, but I really love watching how quickly the greenery explodes.

These are my beans, potato and onion plants in May:

Here they are in mid June:

And by Mid July:

[esters-notepad]

This blue tub is where I compost things over the winter. In summer, I try to grow things there. This year, I planted radishes, but they never grew. Instead I got a crazy mixture of pretty much everything I've grown these past years: dill, tomatoes, salad, strawberries, beans... plus a couple of things I don't recognize, probably wild plants whose seeds blew in with the wind.

The green lines in front of the blue tub is the bean plant (there's only one). Yesterday, there were lots more beans on it. I thought my 6y/o had sneaked herself a snack, but this time she was innocent.

There are several fat caterpillars on it, eating the beans! Oh, well, it's not like there was enough beans there for us humans, anyway. I hope the caterpillars do their metamorphosis on our balcony, so that we can see what kind of butterflies they turn into.

[thetackboard]

[nudeartpluspoetry]

Hey, gardener!

[thetackboard]

The first one this year ❤️

[dickensign]

These isn't the best picture because I took it from inside a mosquito mesh pop up cot tent.

But this was my view when I woke up this morning.

That grapevine was a volunteer! I coaxed it to grow in the wrong direction and it finally did it woohoo!

[dickensign]

"Blotting out the sun" may be my favorite piece of alt text I've ever written.

And I'm so proud of this thing. It was a volunteer that came in another plant a dwarf grapevine that only grew to its proper two foot height and then stopped like it was supposed to.

But this one? No, it's too healthy even though it gets some kind of fungus on it every year it still comes back and provides ample shade and privacy from the neighbors it's pretty great.

The grapes are getting sweeter every year too they're pretty bitter and tiny right now still.

[farminglesbian]

had some beans left from a previous crop years ago and wasn't sure they're still able to sprout - turns out they were. LOOK at these leaves. nature is so fucking cool.