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  Gardening journal for September 25, 2026. The hot chilies are dehydrated with solar power. The dehydration process has been relatively safe. Kitchen gloves are required safety equipment. The process of grinding the dehydrated chilies to deploy with a spice shaker is dangerous as tiny chili dust floats in the air. The N95 mask is effective protection. Some of these will be served on spicy popcorn. #MaskUp, #gardening, #minnesota, #nodig, #Zone4b

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  August 23, 2026. Our three good things include another tasty Armenian cucumber from the garden, monarch caterpillars on Rose Milkweed, and a side dish of Tamarind Rice from Tamil Nadu. #threegoodthings, #pollinators, #nativeplants, #tamilnadu

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  Team activities on August 5, 2026. 1. Harvest and wash elderberries in the pleasant conditions. 2. Observe a variety of pollinators on the native plants, the painted lady butterflies are numerous. 3. Plant more native plant starts as the existing plants bloom. It’s rewarding to add diversity to the habitat as the existing native plants are feeding pollinators. #threegoodthings, #minnesota, #nativeplants, #pollinators, #rewilding, #Zone4b

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  July 21, 2026 Today’s gardening milestone is the garlic harvest. We harvested about 200 garlic over several mornings. This variety is Estonia! Thank you to the Baltic for the varieties. The roots are fanned out connecting to the black soil. 1. The garlic harvest is complete. 2. All of the varieties have some good garlic heads to use for seed for next growing season. 3. The gardening conditions were pleasant. #threegoodthings, #garlic, #nodig, #minnesota, #gardening, #estonia, #fermentation

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  Native plants store and share water for the habitat. The cup plant is a great example. The leaves clasp together at the stem to form a watertight cup. Storing water and sharing are wonderful characteristics! The cup plant gets big. It’s not a good choice for all sites. This striped leafhopper is happy. The cup of water is similar to a bird bath for the smaller creatures. #pollinators, #nativeplants, #minnesota, #gardening.

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  May 13, 2026. Native plants journaling. The Uvularia Grandiflora is a woodland native plant. The droopy yellow blossoms provide food for pollinators in the spring. The bumblebees, mason bees, halictid bees, and Andrenid bees feed from the nectar and collect pollen. That covers a lot of pollinators! These grow in polite little colonies. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #zone4b, #gardening, #pollinators.

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  @transitionalaspect@fnordon.de You can make a sugar water sponge feeder. A drop of sweet water will help.

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  @transitionalaspect@fnordon.de Are there blossoms for the bumblebee? #pollinators

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  @helplessduck@beige.party Congratulations.

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  @feinschmeckergarten@norden.social @Broadfork@mastodon.green I see the onion starts of the northern part of German will have a slow start this season. We have a big season for numbers of onions, shallots, and leeks. The eating, fermenting, and sharing is balanced. We included more of them in fermented Indonesia Rempah and also dried them plain to freeze and add to recipes.

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  @kellyromanych@mastodon.social A good afternoon to you and Geo.

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  @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party 💚💜💚

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  @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party Thank you!

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  @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party That is fun! You are growing a wonderful cross pollinating neighborhood free library and plant exchange. #growyourown.

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  Bird call out! Yellow-rumped warblers. Numerous birds in the emerging foliage in birch and basswood.

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  A solar power system, strawbale cob construction, greenhouse enthusiasms and the Southern Minnesota climate get you something like this. We are mostly off grid #Minnesota, #zone4b, #solar

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  April 30, 2026. Gardening journal. Thank you to the soil. The planned garden planting includes beans, beets, and chard. The best of the Hidatsa Shield beans will be planted. The biggest Hidatsa Shield can be sorted by hand and eye. The seeds for the beets, Arikara Yellow bean, and Cherokee Trail of Tears bean are from Seed Savers Exchange. The soil temperature is 11 Celsius. The frost warnings are for two more nights. #minnesota, #nodig , #zone4b, #indigenous, #growyourown, #gardening, #compost

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  Astragalus crassicarpus. It’s a great name. The ground plum native plants are stylish. These are blooming a few days later than pussytoes. The pollinators appreciate early blooming native plants. The soil temperature is 15 Celsius in this rocky garden. #nativeplants, #growyourown, #minnesota, #Zone4b

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  @Broadfork@mastodon.green What lovely compost. It’s an adventure with zen exercises, soil biology smells, and trugs to take to the gardens at home. Mmm. #compost

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  Sunday, April 19th. These kimchi vegetables are two days into a short fermentation. This is a Korean Kkakdugi recipe from Maangchi. The garden shared new chives, nettles, and grow light daikon radishes. The fermented garlic ingredient is from 2024. The Korean chili powder is sharing all the red hues. #fermentation, #kimchi, #Kkakdugi, #Maangchi, #minnesota, #zone4b.

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  Saturday April 18th. Garden journal notes. The perennial nettle plant is wonderful. This harvest aspired to be steamed with sambal kelapa spiced carrots. This is an early green for southern Minnesota. Also the plant spreads aggressively by shallow runners and deep runners. Also the common name is stinging nettles. #nettles, #growyourown, #nodig, #compost, #minnesota, #Zone4b, #gardening

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  Sunday, April 12th. The bloodroot plant is a lovely sign of spring. The plants make happy colonies, spreading by rhizomes and seed dispersal. The pollinators appreciate the early blossoms. And later in the season the ants like to carry the seeds off as treasure. #nativeplants, #pollinators, #minnesota, #zone4b

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  @ater Thank you for the drawing. The planet hopes the large marsh grasshopper has the habitat to be fruitful and multiply. This grasshopper appears to be an apex grazer and a solid meal for marsh birds. #nativeplants, #megafauna, #rewilding.

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  @msbellows@c.im Also see Lili Haydn playing violin covering Maggotbrain.

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  @calicostitcher@mastodon.social Welcome to the fediverse.

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  @LokeMani@homestead.social Congratulations on growing the asparagus starting from seed. It is good to have early asparagus.

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  @karakteristika@mementomori.social It’s a good question about soil blocks. The ingredients and moisture can be varied to get more robust soil blocks. #SoilBlock, #gardening, #allotment, #compost

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  @SunnJax@tech.lgbt Adding mulch in April for the summer is a project we’ll done.

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  @richrollgardener@toot.wales Rhubarb will save us from vitamin deficiencies one crunchy bite at a time. #rhubarb

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  @ravenringleader The fermented carrots and ginger go well in savory baking. They are a tasty side dish too.