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The May 2017 issue of @gardenmaking magazine just arrived in my mailbox. The issue is about the natural garden and has published an excerpt from my book, Grow Curious called "Invite Wildness." #growcurious https://thefluffcompany.com/collections/all
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I bought 3 packets of seed at Richters Herbs yesterday even though I had placed an order earlier in the season. Hint: sometimes they have a seed sale bin in store, but they didn't this time. Dragonhead Balm has an amazing Latin name. It's a lemon-mint fla
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Leafy Greens Harvest Number 19. Davin picked this yesterday for our lunch and then he took this beautiful, dramatic photo. #yougrowgirlgreens
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Spotted one of my books, Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces on display at Richters Herbs when I was there yesterday. Always nice to see them out in the world. #gaylatrail
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Terrible picture but my phone ran out of battery at the store so I couldn't take a plant haul picture and now it's nighttime. But I'm so excited about the 18 plants I bought today on my annual field trip to Richters Herbs that I couldn't resist posting a
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'Golden Rain' variegated rosemary. The name is a little bit... something.
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The wasabi looked great, but my conditions are pretty much the exact opposite to what it needs.
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Annual field trip to Richters Herbs.
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Something I wrote about the garden in Grow Curious that pertains to today. "It has helped me work through past traumas and provided peace in the midst of the fear and terror that illness can bring. It has inspired an empathy and sympathy for life that I h
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I've got one rogue, full-sized radish growing within a sea of much smaller radishes, It's a mystery, especially since I don't think this is one of the self-seeded. It would have been sown by me later.
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Leafy Greens Harvest Number 18. Super quick pickings because we needed greens for dinner. I'm so thrilled that plantain (Plantago) is back. #yougrowgirlgreens
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Rhodiola root has the most amazing scent. It' smells exactly like rose hand cream. It's also a beautiful colour. You'd never know looking at this that it is the dried root of a low-growing succulent.
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Rhubarb. One of the easiest edibles to grow in this climate. When I was a kid, every house I visited that was of a certain era had a big old rhubarb plant. You could pretty much guarantee it. Even the houses occupied people who could care less about the y
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I tasted a black #maca leaf (Lepidium meyenii) and it tastes spicy just like the different Lepidiums aka cress that I grow! I'm more excited about this than the root, and inversely, I'm now curious about the roots of the other Lepidiums. Don't ask me what
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☀️Dandelions are popping! I'm heading back out soon to pick some to make dandelion flower vinegar. #edibleflowers #edibleweeds
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Leafy Greens Harvest Number 17. I've sized up again to a much larger platter. I've also included lovage, walking onion, oregano, garlic leaves, garlic chives, and monarda leaves for a broth I am making. It's a beautiful day in the garden. There were :hone
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I should probably move this since no adult can comfortably sit there. Sometimes I put a pot there. That's about it.
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The fleeting spectacle of spring. This cherry tree is still in full powder puff mode. I try to stop and enjoy it for a few minutes daily because this stage only comes once a year and it doesn't last long. springgarden
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Spotted this bee fly (Bombylius major) in the garden. Such a crazy looking thing!
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Davin picking greens for dinner yesterday evening. I'm amazed that the cherry tree held onto its blooms despite the heavy rains over the weekend. #yougrowgirlgarden
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Leafy Green Harvest Number 16. Harvested by Davin for our dinner. #yougrowgirlgreens #growyourownfood
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'Red or' kale overwintered in my garden and is beginning to flower. #growyourownfood
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Black currant flowers. The entire black currant plant has a wonderful, earthy/spicy/fruity scent.
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Leafy Greens Harvest Number 15. Technically number 16 as Davin did one in the rain over the weekend but it was not recorded. Today's is big. From the photo you can't tell how high this is piled. The usual ingredients but I found a rogue garlic mustard pla
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Flowering Quince. I bought this in 2011 from a horticultural society plant sale. It was just a tiny thing. Six years later it's finally making a proper show! #springgarden
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...and she's like, Do I get a treat for enduring this? #mollytrailrisk
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We call this Patrol because Molly is searching the garden for squirrels and cats.
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Narcissus currently blooming in my garden. 📗And another reminder that the Grow Curious book is available for preordering. Last I checked the print edition was at about 60% sold! https://thefluffcompany.com/collections/all
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My Garden (May 4, 2017) I wanted to get a photo in while the cherry tree is still flowering. We're about to be slammed with a deluge of rain. Crossing fingers that there is no flooding. #yougrowgirlgarden
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The garden smells wonderfully of cloves right now. It's all down to clove currant aka American Black Currant (Ribes odoratum) I wrote the following back in 2009 when I bought the bush and can tell you that despite what they say, it produces abundantly wit
