brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Burdekin Plum seedlings. Took me a decade to get viable seeds #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Made these. Dollar store planters, hole drilled in middle. Green plastic stake inserted for stability. #gardening 020
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Collected some lily pilly fruit for seeds. #gardening #foraging Two species. 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ginger and Tumeric didnt do great. Might be a bit too cold to do it well. Squirrels and rats here seem to like spices. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Gifted Yang Mei fruit tree. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ulluco overflowing. If I get tubers again Going to make a planter box for them. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Peppers. Pardon and Italian Long. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Passiflora elegans gifted by a gardening friend. While I'd like to eat them, I want to try to sprout the seeds and get them big enough before winter. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Picking Natal Plums from a patch. #gardening #foraging 110
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Medlars slowly ripening. Might be early this year. #gardening 100
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Apples on mini-trees. Varieties are Tropic Sweet, Tropical Beauty, Pendragon, and Thornberry. #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Nance, Eugenia pyroformis, Cherry of the Rio Grande, and two odd Guava species brought back from multiple vendors at festival of fruit. Plus two Pepino melon varieties. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Replaced my Kohala Longan, Sweetheart Lychee, and Alano Sapodilla which died over pandemic/when I had health issues and couldnt keep up with watering. Got them from Ricardos in Long Beach. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Lucuma I brought back from the festival of fruit in Orange County. Leaves got a bit crispy but intend to graft it eventually. I really like this fruit. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Probably should just grow potatos in the ground. When they took out a tree a falling branch smashed my potato pot and managed to pound some into the ground. Purple peruvian fingerlings. #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Stuff I brought back from my trip. Stuff I use to have and fruited in past. Blue Grape, Pitomba, Pitangatuba, Jaboticaba. #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Clammy Cherry/Glueberry at LA Arboretum. I grow this one too but my tree is much smaller. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Starfruit took a hit when animals (squirrels) gnawed off the sprouting buds. Once it warms up a bit more Ill move it into full sun. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Not mine, but saw a red elderberry on walk. Took a few berries for seeds. I think they can be used cooked? #gardening. 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Same species as the Japanese edible lilies, but this one sourced from China originally. #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Need to figure out where im the ground I need to plant the Green Sapote. Probably near the house for a bit extra heat when its a unusually cold year. #gardening 020
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026It initially it looked like Id get close to 100% take on bareroot strawberries, but summer conditions in March and the dog destroying the hose/inability to water knocked me down to 50%. Still trying to decide if I should make a tower or not. #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Yurine lily batch 1 and 2. Noting maybe some faciation? Maybe it got some radiation at some point? #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026African Potato Mint popping up. Goal is just to make a ton of tubers and root cuttings. #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This one usually has a cinnamon taste but a bit overwatery this time. Usually ripening in July so maybe arch heat then rains messed with it. Unknown Ice Cream Bean (Inga sp.) #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Edible lilies getting some size. First batch, a second batch started a few weeks later then the very last two I got in dirt. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Pinus edulis. Wonder if I can graft them for earlier nuts. Grabbed 2 cones from the specialty area at Berkeley Bowl in late Fall/early Winter. #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Bunya bunya seedlings. Year 3. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Ideas for strawberry planters that work? I'm in California so cant dry out super easy in summer. (Heat with low humidity) Anything that works and looks cool? #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Rehabbed a herb I found in a nursery discount bin and hadn't heard of "Tall Curry". #gardening 020
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Maybe this density is ok if I fertilize enough? Going to put thin bamboo stakes in and tie string around it. Ulluco "Tatsolo". #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The edible Yurine lilies are definitely going to be my new project. #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Purple Forest Guava doing well with the rehabbing. Hope it fruits again like it did before a family member moved it after it had rooted into the ground in a smaller pot. #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026American Persimmon I bought a few months back due to having lost the ones I grafted. Good ones have a more complex taste than a lot of Kaki. This one is Claypool H-118/Prairie Sun. #gardening 020
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026After over a decade and a half my Wampee might flower. Will see if it fruits. #gardening 030
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Need to rehab this Wampee tree. I do like the fruit on some trees. #gardening 020
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I need to find a place in the ground for these. Not Loquat. Not Mammey Sapote. Green Sapote/Zapote Verde. Should fruit here, but want to find a area protected enough that it will survive century type "freezes". Supposedly we could drop into high teens or low 20s (F). #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The Andean roots/tubers are sprouting. Hopefully, I get the Mushua (Nasturium relative) established this year. The Oca and Ulluco are doing well. #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I ended up getting 4 thornless blackberry plugs. Snow I have 5. I'll need to see whats best for flavor. #gardening 020
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Need to clean these up and repot but this is whats left from my dwarf plums on Krymsk rootstock expirements. These are wilder plums and seem less dwarved. Persian Green Plum, Blue Damson, and Shropshire Damson. #gardening 010
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026My two South African Persimmons are male. (D. lycoides) It just occurred to me it may take other species as grafts . . . #gardening 000
brianlavin.bsky.social @brianlavin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Wooly Sapote needs some love. This might be a hybrid. Fruit had a slight gasoline odor/taste. This one is destined to be rootstock for superior tasting Wooly Sapote. #gardening 000
