Raw Vegan Organic Gardening
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NO PESTICIDES, NO HERBICIDES,
NO CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS,
NO CHEMICALS USED AT ALL,
ORGANIC OR NON-ORGANIC
VERY LIMITED USE OF GARDENING PLASTICS
(PLASTIC POTS TEMPORARILY)
NO COVERING SOIL WITH SHEETS OF PLASTIC
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JUST WATER, SUN, SOIL, & NATURAL COMPOST♡
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Pinto beans!
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Lots of healthy fats & proteins,
the leaves are also edible!
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Black beans!
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Lima beans!
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5-13-2020
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Pretties growing on mother's patio♡♡♡.
So juicy & delicious!
Homegrown organic foods.♡♡♡
2-17-2019
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Never noticed these beautiful bushes in gramma's backyard, going to cut some clippings! :)
I love the cute little fuschia pom-pom flowers & pretty purple tipped leaves...
Gorgeous plant,
never seen it before!
The flowers also smell sweet & delicious!
I ate one♡.
1-25-2019
Cinco Ranch West, TX
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Carrot tops re-growing.
They will also grow a new root/carrot!
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1-14-2019
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Baby lentils getting bigger!
These stems & leaves feel very soft & silky, like a flaxseed plant.
Excited to eat some fresh, raw lentils!
Healthy protein & fat vitamins.
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1-14-2019
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Sweet wittle lentils are sprouting!
I planted some store bought lentils, dry lentils in a bag.
They sprout super fast!
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12-28-2018
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Lentils sprouting, hoping these kale clippings will root & grow!
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Kalanchoe beginning to bloom!
3 different colors, purple, pink, & peach, I think, will find out soon!!
So xxxiting :) :) :)
12-28-2018
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I prefer clay pots rather than plastic, so I buy a lot of used clay pots at Goodwill & thrift shops. ;)
All these clay pots for $5 dollars!
I dig soil up from the woods, & today I found a great patch of dark, thick, soft soil to fill these new pots. :)
I keep antlers & bones I find in the woods too...lol
12-18-2018
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Cute little pot with oregano (grown from organic store bought clippings), cacti (from the seeds of cactus fruit I foraged), & bell pepper (from seeds of an organic store bought pepper), & okra (from store bought organic seeds), living happily together.♡♡♡
12-16-2018
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Use papaya leaf stems as natural straws!
They are long, & completely hollow, perfect!
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I cut off leafs from my papaya tree to mulch the tree & saw the stems are hollow, super cool!
Natural smoothie straws! ;)
11-30-2018
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So excited to see yellow bell peppers coming in!
I have red, yellow, & green bell plants growing, going to get orange & purple! :)
11-30-2018
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Tomato leaves are edible & very tasty!
As your tomato plants are growing, you can nibble on the leaves, put them in salads, wraps, & even eat with fruits & smoothies!
A great way to increase your healthy leafy green intake, eat the leaves of many different plants!
Greens can be so much more than just the standard lettuce sold in stores. :)
I also eat the leaves of strawberries, rather than removing them...the more greens the merrier.♡
11-30-2018
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Finally have red bell peppers growing!
Organic bell peppers are super expensive, & usually come wrapped in plastic, ironically...
A very easy plant to grow, organically, yourself.♡
11-7-2018
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The okra is beginning to turn red...♡♡
I have been away, so they haven't been watered & pampered as much.
They grow faster when I give them attention every day, they miss momma! ♡♡♡
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Bell peppers & gramma's flowers, from bulbs she gave me.
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Hoping some of these turn red!
Austin, TX
10-24-2018
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Can you spot the tiny baby papayas...?
My first papayas! Grown from seed.
Praying they survive winter!!!
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10-24-2018
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Arugula seed update!
Little cuties are still sprouting up!
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Something else in there too!
Pepper, tomato, or something other perhaps.
10-6-2018
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Baby cacti, growing from cactus fruit I picked, then planted the leftover seeds in a pot.
So cute! These will make cactus fruit one day!
(Oregano plant in the background! ♡♡)
10-6-2018
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Okra update!
These are all from different plants, all doing great!
Looking gooood ladies!♡♡♡
The bugs have gone away now!
10-6-2018
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Love my fat little bell babies lol, they are so cute!
1-1-2018
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The arugula seeds are sprouting!♡♡♡
Now the trick is keeping them alive, they are SO sensitive, die very easily.
Dry out very easily, & rot easily lol.
Must stay watered, but not sit in pooled water for too long.
9-26-2018
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Not sure if these are red or green bell peppers, I planted both!
They all start out green, so it will be a surprise!!
9-26-2018
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More gorgeous okra blooms!
A couple flowers didn't open all the way for some reason :( maybe too cloudy?
More coming!
9-24-2018
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Beautiful rows of white bell flowers...
Soon to be juicy bell peppers!♡♡♡
These pretty little ladies last a few days...
9-22-2018
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My wonderful/weirdo brother doesn't like to eat strawberry leaves, lol,
I use his scraps as compost.
Eventually they begin sprouting!
The trick is, keeping them alive, when I am out of town so often, & mother & brother do not water the plants enough, nothing grows lol!
I feel bad leaving my plant babies.
So still practicing how to grow strawberries from seed lol.
Talking with mother about getting a place with a yard.
She sold her house, preferred an apartment because maintenance is more handy.
But the poodle, & the plants, need a yard lol.♡♡♡
9-22-2018
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This black eyed pea pod looks almost done.
I am just going to let it fall off by itself.♡
Yummy protein & fat.
9-22-2018
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More wonderful okra flowers on the way!
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Wow, the wonderful okra bloom, is VERRRY short lived :(, so glad I came out in the morning to water, & saw it, before it died!
Only stayed a few hours, then closed up & said "Adios amigos"...& fell off the plant.
The good news...this is the baby okra fruit!♡♡♡
Lots more beautiful blooms on the way, thankfully.
9-22-2018
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Well the okra is BLOOMING!!!!!!!!!!!
I am SO excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a big, gorgeous bloom, I am amazed.
The little insect critters don't seem to be hurting the plant, yaye!
Cryptolaemus, "Mealybug Destroyer".
Have been living all over the plants.
Tiny, fuzzy, white haired bugs.
They are beneficial to the garden, don't kill them!
The okra plants are still thriving just fine.
These bugs feed on other smaller insects which are supposedly harmful to the plants, sad, but that's it.
I have actually seen the Cryptos eating the other tiny bugs...:( :( :(
These unfortunate insects are super small & light brown.
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So at least 2 types of insects are living on the okra, & the plants are still growing, blooming, & producing fruits. :)
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I do not use any type of pesticides, even "organic" ones, are still unhealthy in my opinion, & I do not want them sprayed all over my plants/food.
Plus I do not like the thought of killing insects.
I woke up this morning, to this wonderful, HUGE surprise...when I went to bed last night, it was still just a flower bud, so unexpected!
There are lots more buds on the way, this one has grown the fastest.
So excited to watch it morph into delicious okra fruit!
Gardening is my absolute FAVORITE hobby!!!!!!!
9-21-2018
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I can finally identify what this plant is...
OKRA!
My first time growing okra, so exciting! I grew these from seed.
Buds are forming, but, there is an insect laying eggs or something all over them. :/
I will not spray any toxins on my plants of course, just going to keep watering & hope they make it, even with the bugs living on them.
Hoping they will just go away!
9-9-2017
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Some critters making the bell pepper plants look trippy!
Love it, carry on...
7-31-2018
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I loooove the smell of fresh rosemary, also love to munch on it, delicious flavor.
Brought back these beautiful, ooey-gooey, oily, very fragrant clippings from walking the doggies last night, going to plant them & grow more!
I did not think the neighbors would mind a few tiny clippings, from their huge plants, right along the sidewalk.
If they do, they are Greedy Gregs.
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If it was my plant, I would gladly let people clip from it!
7-30-2018
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Pomegranate trees sprouting together, 8 in here, with a beautiful ornamental plant mother's nice neighbor lady gifted me. XO
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This will be a surprise, I forgot what type of seeds I planted! ;)-
7-20-2018
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