Gardening
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Green fingers? Love pruning, grafting and growing your own produce? For all you avid gardeners, share tips and tricks here
The season is almost here! Wild rice harvesting. I am Native American (northern/Anishinaabe in Minnesota) and apart of our culture is harvesting foods that grow in our tribal regions. Wild rice grows naturally in our lakes. The magical part is the rice is only available to harvest for 2-3 weeks once a year. It happens in the last August and sometimes into September. It is heavily regulated on our tribal lands, such as licensing, making sure we use traditional ways to harvest and limited time slots per day, as well as when and where we can harvest. This is not to control people, this is to protect the plant.
If you ever had store bought wild rice, that is not real wild rice and taste nothing like lake harvested wild rice.
Naturally grown wild rice cannot be replicated. Which is why it’s so heavily protected. I always get excited once summer arrives because that means it’s almost time for Wild Ricing season! I’m a knocker, there’s two people in one canoe; the knocker and the poler. If you have any questions, ask away!
not necessarily gardening, but falls under agriculture and harvesting which I thought some gardening people might enjoy
Sunday morning backyard grocery run 🌶️ 🍅
My pears still need more time to ripen up.
Fun fact: Roundhouse Tomatoes start off white, turn green before blushing out in those pretty reds.
Grafted this one. So it’s a hybrid plant which is why this bell pepper is picking up that red shade.
Happy weekend!
Here's a little zinnia bouquet. I don't like to snip my flowers, but a lot of flowers, such as the zinnias, grow much better and bushier when flowers are regularly collected or stems are pinched. It allows the plants to send up more stems containing more buds and blooms. If you don't regularly collect the flowers and pinch the stems, the plants grow thin and leggy. I have a lot of buds growing or opening up into new flowes on the four zinnia plants, so I removed most of the existing flowers.
Marigold and dahlias are also two of the plants that grow better when flowers are regularly harvested, so I have a marigold bouquet this morning, too. And finally, I get to see my mornings in full bloom! 😊
Happy Friday! Don't forget to do the Friday good deeds and extra sunnahs :)
After a long day in the office, I am home! Yaaay weekend!!! 😊 I'm chilling in my garden enjoying the summer heat and breeze with my drink and a smoked salmon sandwich. I'm waiting for Asr, after which I'll head out to the lakefront.
It finally heated up enough and my dahlias are growing! The chillis and the eggplants are also coming. Tons of buds and new blooms on the zinnias, marigolds and the morning glory. The strawberry is blooming, too!
The Blush Cherry tomato looking a lil wilty, but with a bit of water later it will perk right up. All the chilli peppers have buds getting ready to bloom. The friggitello peppers will take a bit longer. Since morning glories bloom the best, well, in the morning, I almost never see them even though the plant is a heavy bloomer. I'm looking forward to the next two days when I'll be home. Oh and if you can spot the new growths on one of my dahlias, I'll give you a virtual cookie 😉
Now I almost dont wanna leave and feel like staying home the rest of the evening and just lounge around in the garden, enjoy the city and lake views with my cat and the book I'm currently reading.
I mean...when you create a comfortable, beautiful, happy, serene place like this....going anywhere else becomes almost just optional 😊 Alhamdulillah I created such a home for myself which is my abode, my lil heaven on Earth, any day, any season of the year. The gardens I create every spring-fall just adds to it!
Anyways...enjoy the current botanical happenings.
Alhamdulillah!!! 🙏 After a good few years, I think our grapevine is finally producing grapes! 🍇💚 MashaAllah.
