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Collage of pictures - A big snail on the broad beans Veg bags ready for collection My veg bag of spring onions, lettuce, new potatoes, broad beans, Kale, redcurrants and gooseberries

Home from my shift at The Wash House Garden. Was harvesting broad beans and gooseberries then packing lettuce and potatoes.

After lunch sowing radish and beetroot seeds and mangetout peas.

Veg bag -

• New potatoes
• Spring onions
• Broad beans
• Lettuce
• Kale
• Redcurrants
• Gooseberries

Sunday dinner in a white bowl - • MacSweens Veggie Haggis with mash and neeps • Veg box kale and mashed turnip • Mushroom gravy

Sunday dinner -

• MacSweens Veggie Haggis with mash and neeps
• Veg box kale and mashed turnip
• Mushroom gravy

#vegan

Collage of thrift shop finds - LOTR game Poppy War pin Coasters Tankard Red panda Funko Trust The Dice tote bag Pinafore dress Green jumper Bra top Daisy print dress Slippers Pennant

Little charity shop haul from today.

Top - yellow squash flower Bottom - purple aubergine flower

Wee flowers in my windowsill garden - squash and aubergine.

White bowl of pasta, cauliflower and mangetout peas in a vegan cheeze sauce

Veg box dinner -

Pasta cauliflower cheeze with mangetout peas

Conchiglie pasta, cauliflower, mangetout peas in a Sainsbury's Plant Power cheeze sauce with added grated cheeze, soft cheeze and nooch.

#vegan

Cotton bag of organic veg from The Wash House Garden

● rocket ● mangetout peas ● turnips ● kale ● cauliflower ● mint

Week 2 of veg bag from The Wash House Garden

● rocket
● mangetout peas
● turnips
● kale
● cauliflower
● mint

Plus feverfew for herbal tea

Collage of garden pictures- snails, roses, wormwood, teasel and calendula

Back home from The Wash House Garden - morning was focused on harvesting and packing peas 🫛, sorting turnips, picking sage and chopping down comfrey and weeds.

After the Jobcentre, returned to sow some courgettes 🥒 and Dwarf French beans 🫘 then picked up my 2nd veg bag.

Collage of photos of the contents of my veg box - turnips, lovage, salad, rhubarb and peas

My first veg box/ bag from The Wash House Garden
If this is the regular one, I'm glad I didn't opt for the large!

Lots of delicious organic produce - I'm already cooking off the radish and turnip tops for supergreens to have with pasta later along with the radish and salad and peas.

A collage of pictures from the garden with bees, snails, flowers and plants

Home from my volunteer session 10-3 with the Gay Gardeners at The Wash House Garden.
Today was harvesting for the veg boxes - lovage, mangetout peas, herbs, salad - and weeding among the beans, potatoes and in the food forest herbs. Lots of life abounding.

Collage of photos showing my plot including broccoli, cabbage and beans plus sage and parsley

Took a short trip down to my wee plot of land in between rain showers today.
Planted out some Romanesco broccoli and cabbage as well as my King Of The Early Dwarf French beans from Seeds of Scotland.
Raked over the plot to remove new weed growth and picked up fallen leaves.

Collage of pictures of windowsill gardening Top - okra Middle - tomatoes and basil, dwarf French beans Bottom - baby leeks, tiny chives, woad and mint

Windowsill gardening 🪴

🌱 Potted the Okra into bigger pots
🌱 Repotted the basil and put some in with the tomatoes 🍅 as companion plants
🌱 Decided to leave the Dwarf French Beans in situ for now
🌱 The leeks are coming on well
🌱 Glad to see some shoots in the Icelandic Chives, Woad and Korean mint

Collage of pictures of covered beds - two with netting to protect wheat seedlings and one with black mulch to cover weeds.

Another good and chill session at The Wash House Garden. Today we cleared the raised bed of greens that had sprouted and were choking out the wheat - really pleased to see more sprouting than we'd hoped.
Readied the other two beds to plant out the squash next week.
And the rain stayed off.

Collage of pictures of my growing plot and some of the plants dotted around

Took a little trip down to my wee plot at The Pantry Garden, to see if my plants had survived the rain and wind. All looking okay so I planted the borage plants and the oriental poppy.
Spoke to Clara about poor soil condition. Didn't stay long as it was threatening rain again.

Three October Daye books by Seanan Maguire - The Unkindest Tide A Killing Frost When Sorrows Come - and a book of short stories about queer ecology called 'Xenocultivars'

Recent book buys.
I'm currently reading 'The Unkindest Tide' by @seananmcguire.bsky.social which is about selkies 🦭

Top - propagator modules filled with compost and new seeds Middle - propagator modules with tiny little green Kale shoots Bottom - hardback books A Modern Herbal and The Edible Garden, both by Alys Fowler

Rainy Sundays are perfect for ~

🫘 sowing Woad, chives and Korean mint
🌱 checking on Kale seedlings
📚 reading new herb and gardening books

'Borrowed' seeds from Glasgow Seed Library in small packets - ▪️Honesty ▪️Woad ▪️Icelandic Chives ▪️Korean mint

I also 'borrowed' seeds from Glasgow Seed Library -

▪️Honesty
▪️Woad
▪️Icelandic Chives
▪️Korean mint

A collage of four tops, a Doctor Who DVD and a little black griffin figure

The British Heart Foundation charity/ thrift shop on Sauchiehall street were having a half-price clothing sale so I picked up a few tops.
Also got a DVD copy of 'The Church On Ruby Road' and a wee Nemesis Now griffin.

Three tins of Suma vegan Ravioli, three packs of Violife Le Rond vegan 'camembert' and a pack of Nag Champa incense sticks

Popped in to Quality Vitamins and Herbs as I was in the area.
Picked up a supply of Violife Le Rond 'camembert', Suma Ravioli and a pack of Nag Champa incense.

#vegan

Two little okra seedlings, sude by side in beige cardboard coffee cups against a red background

Made it home safe with my okra seedlings intact from the Glasgow Community Food Network and Glasgow Seed Library workshop.

Was told out of 100, they only expect around 23 to survive and of those, around 11 to be viable, so not to get too attached to them. But we'll see.

Big Ncuti, meet little Ncuti! 😍

Today, Mattel Creations unveiled its brand-new Barbie x Doctor Who dolls at MCM Comic Con London. What a likeness!

#DoctorWho

On the left, three stoneware style mugs - a large greenish one behind and two smaller ones in beige and pale green in front. On the right, a highly decorated plate showing the goddess Artemis in a hunting scene, readying to fire an arrow from her bow, with another figure sitting in front of her and hunting dogs with them

Do I really need another mug to add to the two I got from Tesco? Clearly no but I got it anyway.
Also picked up this plate from the same charity shop because it has Artemis on it.

A windowsill with a planter of tomatoes and an aubergine and several pots of beans, squash and succulent, looking out on a communal backyard and other houses and bushes beyond.

Sorted my kitchen windowsill garden with the tomatoes and aubergine in a planter, ready to have basil as a companion plant once it grows plus the beans and squash repotted and the succulents beside them.

A white dog rise with a little honey bee in the centre, loving the bright yellow pollen, surrounded by green rose leaves

A very happy little bee that @ihave15biases.bsky.social and I spotted near the Forge Retail Park, enjoying the pollen in the white Scottish dog roses.

Five pink and white turnips with roots and a brown paper bag of purple and green leaves on a black counter top.

A six-segment pot with little basil seedlings on a green propagator tray

Not long in from The Wash House Garden - had a good day. Was making racks for the beehive with @ihave15biases.bsky.social , who popped in to visit. Then I was checking on the wheat, potting on basil seedlings and weeding paths.
Rescued turnips, microgreens and basil seedlings from being composted.

A collage of 12 pictures showing wild flowers and plants that were foraged in the park including sorrel, ribwort plantain, garlic mustard, dog roses, limeflowers, elderflower and hawthorn.

Just home from a wonderful Spring Foraging Walk with Glasgow Community Food Network and the amazing Jemima Hall.
Learned SO much in a short time.
Feeling really inspired to learn more and try things.

It's almost time!

Tonight at 9pm BST!

Ups & Downs for Galaxy Quest!

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Box cover for the 'Jumanji' board game

Oops...

This was left out by our bins.
It's complete, with all the pieces, die and cards.

If I go missing, you'll know why.

Rectangular raised bed plot against a brick wall, half in sunshine.

Back from my wee plot.
Weeded it as best I could. I'll need access to the tool shed to rake it over and remove stones another day.
Did some preliminary spacing and added my wee sign. The waste bag is for weeds/ compost until I sort a proper bin.

Three rectangular green propagator trays with clear lids containing soil and leek, bean and kale seeds

First of my own seed sowings for the wee plot -

Seeds of Scotland
Musselburgh Leek
King Early Dwarf French Bean
Real Seeds Sutherland Kale

Seven beige seed packets containing leeks, carrots, turnips, chard, beans, beetroot and peas

This morning's delivery from Seeds of Scotland
Looking forward to sowing them either directly or in propagators.
🥕🥒🫘🫛