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Male and female flowers
🚻 Did you know that e.g. cucumbers, pumpkins, squash, and zucchini have both male and female flowers?
🔼 Male flowers grow on simple stems.
🔽 Female flowers have a small fruit at their base.
🥒 Unless you are growing self-pollinating hybrid varieties, you need both types of flowers for fruit production.
🐝 Our garden friends, the pollinators, play a crucial role in moving pollen from male to female flowers, helping us to have a beautiful harvest from our garden.
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Summer rain works wonders for the garden! Everything is lush, green, and blooming. Today’s bouquet colors brighten the gray sky!
Bulk buckets, custom bouquets, market bouquets, subscription bouquets—everything is grown, cared for, cut, and arranged with love. 🩷
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The garden keeps on giving! 🥗
Now is the perfect time to enjoy the crispy freshness of cool season leaves and roots.
Did you know that within the growing season, we actually experience a few seasons—cool, warm, and then cool again?
Different plants thrive in different weather conditions—some like it cool and some like it hot.
Feeling overwhelmed? I’m here to help guide you through it all! 👩🏻🌾
Feel free to DM me if you’d like to book a garden consultation/coaching. 💌
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The easiest way to kill your plants? Neglecting to properly harden them off.
Whether you've grown your own seedlings or picked them from a nursery, the hardening off process is crucial before transplanting them outdoors.
Hardening off is the gradual adaptation of plants to outdoor conditions. Here's how to do it right:
🌱 Ease into it: Start by introducing your plants to outdoor conditions for short bursts (e.g. up to 30 min on the first day), gradually increasing exposure each day over about a week.
🌱 Choose the right time: Wait until the weather is consistently mild before starting the hardening off process.
🌱 Find a sheltered spot: Place your plants where they’ll get partial sunlight and be shielded from harsh winds, which helps reduce stress.
🌱 Keep them hydrated: Keep an eye on soil moisture, as plants can quickly dry out, especially on sunny, windy days.
🌱 Avoid extreme conditions: Protect your plants from extreme temperatures, too much sun, and heavy rain during the transition period to prevent damage.
Happy gardening! 🌿
I was going through my gardening notes yesterday and found a phrase that I wrote down a few years ago:
🧘🏻♀️ Make self-care a part of your routine🧘🏻♀️
This is such a good reminder to all of us!
Last year I started going to a massage therapist - first out of necessity but then I scheduled monthly visits to keep my health more or less in check. It has been wonderful and I am continuing this year as well. On a daily basis, a quiet time with a cup of tea or a book also helps me to gather my thoughts and decompress. In summer I love early mornings outside in the garden - just taking a moment to face the rising sun and to hear the sounds of nature around me. Have you tried walking barefoot on a cool morning grass in your garden? It awakens all your senses!
I would love to hear what you do to improve your well being - walks, yoga, gardening?
🌸 A year in flowers - Part I 🌸
Have a fun New Year’s Eve, friends! ✨🥂💫
