These pictures are from Thursday. I went foraging at the Charleston Food Forest. It's across the parking lot from the Coles County Community Garden.
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ysabetwordsmith posting in gardening Jun. 21st, 2025 12:17 am)The Coles County Community Garden is across the parking lot from the Charleston Food Forest. It's not the kind where you rent a bed and grow what you want. It's tended by the community and anyone can come pick things to try.
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I enjoy growing dark-colored plants. I have black flowers, bronze leaves, black fruits, all kinds of interesting things.
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(ysabetwordsmith posting in gardening Jun. 9th, 2025 11:46 pm)
ysabetwordsmith posting in gardening Jun. 9th, 2025 11:46 pm)Today I started making liquid fertilizer from Russian comfrey. Begin with Part 1: Jugs. With those done, I harvested leaves.
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(ysabetwordsmith posting in gardening Jun. 9th, 2025 10:58 pm)
ysabetwordsmith posting in gardening Jun. 9th, 2025 10:58 pm)Today I started making liquid fertilizer from Russian comfrey. This plant fills a lot of guild roles in permaculture including fertilizer, miner, mulcher, protector, attractor. I have been using it primarily as a bee plant that I can also slash-and-drop several times a season. I grow it under many of my trees and there's some in the prairie garden too.
There are various ways to make liquid fertilizer from comfrey. I will be testing two: 1) a small amount of comfrey leaves in a large amount of water, and 2) only comfrey leaves crammed tightly in a jug. (See Part 2: Leaves.)
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There are various ways to make liquid fertilizer from comfrey. I will be testing two: 1) a small amount of comfrey leaves in a large amount of water, and 2) only comfrey leaves crammed tightly in a jug. (See Part 2: Leaves.)
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(updated and cross-posted from my blog)
My newest mulch pile:
I only recently got a wood chipper, and I am so happy to be able to mulch small branches at home now!
Lovely little flowers on the French lavender:
I have a dahlia I call the Dark Dahlia, which is behind the lavender, under some rhubarb leaves, just starting to come up. This is most exciting because I wasn't sure if I got it out of the ground in time last fall/winter.
The wine barrel tomato plants are getting much bigger, and have some flowers going:
Some of the ripe strawberries (while walking my cat Martha):
Yummy strawberry-arugula salad! Needed more strawberries. Next time.
My newest mulch pile:
I only recently got a wood chipper, and I am so happy to be able to mulch small branches at home now!
Lovely little flowers on the French lavender:
I have a dahlia I call the Dark Dahlia, which is behind the lavender, under some rhubarb leaves, just starting to come up. This is most exciting because I wasn't sure if I got it out of the ground in time last fall/winter.
The wine barrel tomato plants are getting much bigger, and have some flowers going:
Some of the ripe strawberries (while walking my cat Martha):
Yummy strawberry-arugula salad! Needed more strawberries. Next time.
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