My Brazilian spinach has been doing especially gangbusters, even the one at the back balcony which had always kinda done poorly. I give all credit to...
Prawn poo.
Yea, really! Prob the best fertilizer you can get!
So when you deshell and devein the prawns don't throw them away. Wash the shelled prawns and shells (including the heads) in water. Pour the water onto your vege bed.
For the shells, in Malaysia, we often boil them and use it as stock.
Then, you can bury the shells. Great compost.

One 8’x8’ garden bed framed out, four more to go. Also got the first of two container gardens finished and planted. My queerplatonic partner and I are both medically retired and have been busy this week while my Husband and partner work their day jobs. We still have a lot more to go before we are done with this project. Tomorrow will be more garden bed framing, planting six different berry bushes, and maybe another trip to the nursery (because plant babies need homes too).

This morning's task: thinning out the seedlings with my tiny beheading scissors like some kind of demented botanical Highlander.

Some fruits of our #gardening labor: green onions returning that we used for green onion pancake yesterday, a bunch of flower bulbs that just won't die, yellow and red clay from under the bulb, and a bigass stump. Bluey was right. Stumpfest is playing for dads.

Vintage Botanical Prints - 50 in a series - Late Tulips / Bybloemen or Violets, Cooper Hewitt Museum

https://welchwrite.com/agn/2021/06/20/vintage-botanical-prints-50-in-a-series-late-tulips-bybloemen-or-violets-cooper-hewitt-museum/

Prints available at
http://DouglasEWelch.com/shop/765

#tulips #plants #flowers #leaves #botany #botanical #print #art #artwork #garden #gardening #science #painting #illustration  

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Someone’s once old water tank will soon begin a new life as a container pond on the allotment. #Gardening #Recycling #Allotment #Pond

Vintage Botanical Prints - 49 in a series - The Blue Passion-flower, 1799-1807, Robert John Thornton

https://welchwrite.com/agn/2021/06/14/vintage-botanical-prints-49-in-a-series-the-blue-passion-flower-1799-1807-robert-john-thornton/

Prints available at
http://DouglasEWelch.com/shop/763

#passiflora #plants #flowers #leaves #botany #botanical #print #art #artwork #garden #gardening #science #painting #illustration  

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Taken 3.5 hours apart. It's open!

Pink beauty - handmade watercolor painting

Have a wonderful day!

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Plot progress. The front half is almost ready for sowing and planting up from next month onwards.

A Jostaberry now occupies the space the mass of wild brambles used to.
#NoDig #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #Mulch #Allotment