#zone9b

I got Zuked! 🙃 . Hadn’t checked the garden for a few days, & while passing by the zucchini bush I felt a chill & the presence of a large, dark creature lurking in the shadows. . Parted the leaves to discover this Green Beast ready to zuke me back to the stone age. It already had sucked the lifeforce from the little zucchini behind it. . Fortunately I was able to “gift” it to a friend who will now be enjoying zucchini until late November 🤔👍 . #GotZuked #Zuked #GadZukes #ZukularFallout #ZukeEmAll #Zucchini #ズッキーニ #Courgette #Zucchinigeddon #ZucchinisOfInstagram #ZucchiniRhymesWithWeenie #RaisedBedGardening #RaisedGardenBeds #BecauseFUGophers #NorCal #Zone9bGardening #Zone9b #Permaculture #ShareTheBounty https://www.instagram.com/p/ChiUd3LvaaJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Mimosa Pudica aka The Sensitive Plant

Cleaned up the side grass that was hanging down into the pond! There were a ton of bricks and stones buried around the edge of the pond, which would find better use elsewhere in the yard, since this area is too overgrown to walk around. (I bet the bricks have been buried since I was a kid, this area has always been so overgrown by grass - there used to be a fence where those bushes are.) Nothing particularly important came from doing this, but I just really wanted to clean up all the dead grass. Got a bunch of worms and fresh wormy dirt out of this half of the pond, too. And I also saw a wild cockroach egg case and a wild cockroach... 😬 I haven't seen one since the exact day I left NYC last and saw a huge one barfing black ooze upside down on my rug... 🤢 Stay outside, buddy. (They're very uncommon to find in a house in this area, and obviously hard to find in the wild because they hide under dead leaves.) #garden #gardening #plants #california #zone9b #zone9 #zone9garden #pandemicgardening #spring #springcleaning https://www.instagram.com/p/CM8jzEjsMrO/?igshid=4txxgmbcbwyc

Mite be time to move these palo verde trees outside 😬 . Collected the seed pods on a special trip to Joshua Tree / Palm Desert last September, & have successfully grown five trees over winter (yeay heat mat!) 🤓👍 . Planning on trying to plant a couple here in Inland East Bay Area but not sure if they’ll survive the winter 🤔 We’ll see! . Was just getting warm enough at night to think about moving outside for the summer, but now it’s bugging me so out they go today! . Also means more space on the windowsill for seeding trays! 🥳 . #WebOfLife #BuggingOut #PaloVerde #PaloVerdeTree #PropagationStation #Propagation #Spider #SpiderWeb #NorCal #Zone9bGardening #Zone9b #Permaculture https://www.instagram.com/p/CdQ8HHMFbty/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

My best, most productive tomatoes are the ones I did absolutely nothing about! 😆 . Apparently last year’s currant tomatoes dropped & self seeded outside the raised bed, & then used the cover of the late monster “cube of butter” squash plant to tumbleweed out. Removed the squash a few weeks ago & kaboom! Currant tomatoes everywhere! 🥳 . Harvested a bunch, trellised some strands, & pruned back the rest of the rats’ nest. (Wait, why didn’t the rats eat these low-hanging fruit?!? 🤔Or the gophers the roots?!? 🤔🤔) . Can’t wait to see what successfully grows here next year without my meddling! 🤓👍 . #RogueRed #TomatoesGoneWild #WeeLads #Volunteer #CurrantSituation #CurrantTomatoes #Tomatoes #トマト #Tomate #RaisedBedGardening #RaisedGardenBeds #BecauseFUGophers #NorCal #Zone9bGardening #Zone9b #Permaculture https://www.instagram.com/p/CUqdzkfPSEO/?utm_medium=tumblr

Just a couple of fun guys logging on to browse the interwebs 😎 . Some brown, some green 🤔 . #Ourcelium #CapTainsLog #Mushrooms #きのこ #Champignons #Fungi #FungiPhotography #Oak #Log #WinterGardening #Zone9bGardening #Zone9b #Permaculture https://www.instagram.com/p/CMNntT2gQE0/?igshid=zxghb1jwosak

Planted some shin kuroda carrots back in Jan/Feb, but then turned/added soil/compost in April, basically burying all the carrots except for these three hardy roots ✊🏼 . Best carrot harvest so far! Especially in terms of girth—which, I’ve learned recently, is an important aspect of quality taste & texture of veg. Packs in the pleasure, apparently. So maybe the double mounding is the secret? 🤔 . Going to make some carrot top pesto hummus with the tops, so tell you about the taste when I dip em. . #CarrotsOverCarats #Thiccarrot #ShinKuroda #Carrot #人参 #Carotte #RaisedBedGardening #RaisedGardenBeds #BecauseFUGophers #NorCal #Zone9bGardening #Zone9b #Permaculture https://www.instagram.com/p/CPWh7enHi6Y/?utm_medium=tumblr