Accidental Gardener 🌱🌎🌞

Hilarious! This is our new rescue Teddy. Watch his chin hairs and cheeks when my husband squeaks his toy! 😂 #rescuedog #AdoptDontShop

First one this year! Stopping by and saying hi! ❤️

Go hibernate would ya?! 🐻😆
#nature #wildlife

Sleepy little bee taking a nap on a marigold bloom. #gardening 🌱 #flowers #nature

Sleepy bee 😴🐝 🌱
#gardening #flowers #nature

Softneck garlic varieties Transylvanian, Early Italian, Conventional German Red, Conventional Purple Glazer, Organic Early California White, Organic Late California White. Hardneck varieties Ivan, Duganski, Russian Red. #gardening #growyourown 🌱 🧄

Nothing like ordering a bunch of garlic, then forgetting you did, and order a bunch more that all arrives the same day! 😆🌱🧄
#gardening #growyourown

Top to right - Pink Pearl, Rosy Delight Dinnerplate, Labyrinth, Great Silence decorative Dahlias, Sandra ball and Isabel ball Dahlias. #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling #Dahlias #DahliaLove 🌱

Rosy Delight dinnerplate #Dahlias #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #DahliaLove 🌱

Last Dahlias of the season. They brought me so much joy and color to my world. 🥰
#gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling #Dahlias #DahliaLove 🌱

Good to know, thanks! 😊 Hopefully I'll get some seeds from it! I found out about morning glories too late, I planted them in a couple of places I shouldn't have, been picking the volunteers long after the main plants were pulled ever since. 😕

😊 This is my first year (if I can keep the deer away from them). Do you know if they are they invasive such as Morning Glories that self seed so prolificly?

Moonflower in bloom 🌱 #flowers #bloomscrolling

Moonflower bloom at dusk. 🌱#gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling

Finally captured the Moonflower in bloom! 🤩🌱 #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening

I love these silly, clowny faced Acorn Woodpeckers! 🥰 #nature #birds

Oh no, all the prepping & cooking was outside! Only thing inside was transferring to jars, capping and canning. I've learned my lesson 🤣

😂 Only takes once! I learned mine making jalapeño jelly. 🤭

The vapors didn't run you out of the house?! 😂

Colorful selection of #Dahlias #DahliaLove #bloomscrolling #gardening 🌱

Colorful, decorative, ball and dinnerplate #Dahlias Labyrinth, Rosy Delight, Thomas Edison, Pink Pearl, Sunny Boy, Great Silence, Blue Mist, Lilac Time. #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling #Dahlias #DahliaLove 🌱

Great Silence decorative #Dahlias #DahliaLove #bloomscrolling #gardening 🌱

Today's #Dahlia haul! 🤩
I pick every other day. I love #flowers ❤️ #gardening #Dahlias #DahliaLove #bloomscrolling 🌱

Chocolate Cherry Sunflower bloom with deep chrimsom petals terminating into a dark brown chocolate center. 🍫🍒🌻🌱#gardening #bloomscrolling

Planted a late batch of Chocolate Cherry Sunflowers 🍫 🍒 🌻 that are beginning to bloom! #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling 🌱

Thank you! 🤗 Zone 9a Sierra Foothills 🌱

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Rosy Delight dinnerplate #Dahlias

Rosy Delight dinnerplate #Dahlias #flowers #DahliaLove 🌱

Rosy Delight dinnerplate #Dahlias are bright fuschia pink on the outer petal terminating into buttery yellow inner petal. 🌱#gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling #Dahlias #DahliaLove

These Rosy Delight Dinnerplate #Dahlias are fast becoming my favorite! 😍 It's produced so many blooms, each with unique colors and patterns! 🌱 #gardening #bloomscrolling #DailyDahlia #DahliaLove

Garden haul! 🤩 🌱 #gardening #growyourown

Look at that chonk! 🤩💪

That's some great info! Not sure how much longer I can wait though 😉❤️

Right?! I'm growing I think 12 other varieties, figured I'd give them a try. My Southern roots have a hankering for fried green tomatoes! 😋

I love how the expertise rises to the occasion when someone has a question on here. The proper ripeness for making green tomatoes is so niche and I love that it's out here and will see when someone needed to know. 😊

Agreed! The gardening people (everywhere) are amazing folks to be around - I love growing knowledge too! 😊 ❤️ I'm a member of our small town Garden Club and they have supported me through more than gardening questions!

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#PrettyPurpleThursday you'all 🌱
Let's see your prettiest purples!

From pics I've seen it looks like ripe ones have some yellow on the outside as well as the green. That one still looks unripe to me with the pale green on it. Firmness - or rather a softer texture - would be my 2nd decider, but this is why I don't grow green tomatoes. 😂 That's gonna be a good one!

Thank you for your words of wisdom! 🙏 I plan on making some fried green tomatoes from them 🤤 and word has it you want to avoid thoroughly ripe tomatoes. Hopefully just another week! Cheers 🥂

Ginormous Aunt Ruby's German Green tomato 🍅 🌱 #gardening #Tomatoes

How do you determine when an Aunt Ruby's German Green tomato is ripe? 🤔
By firmness or? #gardening 🌱

Dark Star Morning Glory #bloom #bloomscrolling 🌱 #PrettyPurpleThursday 💜

#PrettyPurpleThursday 💜 #gardening #bloomscrolling
Dark Star Morning Glory 🌱

The ripening has begun!