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Zucchini evolution - 1 week 🥒🔆💦

Each year since I started my green journey I’ve challenged myself to grow something new, and see first hand the resiliency of nature in my local environment.

My raised garden bed is primarily clay - and currently home to a pretty large anthill. I maintain peace with the insects by leaving their corner colony alone, and supplement the clay with store bought soil when I plant initially, but beyond that all I do to the earth is weed and water when needed and wait 👀

Which means I’m VERY excited to have both my new crops for 2023 - garlic and these beautiful zucchini’s, doing well!

Zucchini evolution - 1 week 🥒🔆💦

Each year since I started my green journey I’ve challenged myself to grow something new, and see first hand the resiliency of nature in my local environment.

My raised garden bed is primarily clay - and currently home to a pretty large anthill. I maintain peace with the insects by leaving their corner colony alone, and supplement the clay with store bought soil when I plant initially, but beyond that all I do to the earth is weed and water when needed and wait 👀

Which means I’m VERY excited to have both my new crops for 2023 - garlic and these beautiful zucchini’s, doing well!

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I’m in Southern Ontario where we have 4 very distinct seasons and I’ve never tried to grow my own garlic because it requires too much patience! Getting through the winter and not knowing whether anything will actually sprout? Not really my thing.

BUT this year I decided to take 10 minutes outside and planted 5 large cloves of beautiful Ontario garlic - 4 went directly into the ground and 1 into a 5 gal bucket incase the others get disturbed. I gave them all a good cover of fallen leaves for insulation and protection - fingers crossed the rats living under my back yard don’t just take them as a snack! (But if they do oh well. City living is about positively coexisting with displaced animals of any kind!)

The garlic is here!! Next year I will most definitely be planting more (like 5x more…is that too much? 😂)

This is one of the easiest and most validating additions to my garden hands down! 🧄🙌🏻

For those new to gardening or just looking to grow your own food, this is one of the best first steps! Garlic thrives in tons of different ecosystems and planting zones - simply find yours and give it a try! You don’t often need anything special to get started, though garlic from a local source is preferred to get the most out of your own grow 🔆

I’m in Southern Ontario where we have 4 very distinct seasons and I’ve never tried to grow my own garlic because it requires too much patience! Getting through the winter and not knowing whether anything will actually sprout? Not really my thing.

BUT this year I decided to take 10 minutes outside and planted 5 large cloves of beautiful Ontario garlic - 4 went directly into the ground and 1 into a 5 gal bucket incase the others get disturbed. I gave them all a good cover of fallen leaves for insulation and protection - fingers crossed the rats living under my back yard don’t just take them as a snack! (But if they do oh well. City living is about positively coexisting with displaced animals of any kind!)