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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yesterday's garden column (September 14th). 🌱 #gardening

An article about how the garden did this summer (not that great), using shredded coir to top up my raised beds, making some strawberry and fig jams, and no persimmons this year.

JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Garden article for September 9th. 🌱 #gardening And last night our trail cam caught 3 raccoons starting on the lower apples 🙁

An article about gambling with the likelihood of frost, apple and hazelnut eating marauders, and hummingbirds that stay year-round now.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here's my not-quite-a-garden-article for August 31st. 🌱 #gardening

An article mostly about recovering from surgery and how the produce from the garden helped so much.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We're in for a couple of 34F degree nights but I think these peas, beets and onions will survive it handily. I've had to cover everything else. 🌱 #gardening

A dark gray colored corrugated metal tall raised bed with sprawling pea plants at the far end, and beet leaves and tall onion stems at the closer end. Growing in the ground in front of the bed is a red Flanders poppy. There are carrots too, but concealed by the onions.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I just finished this knitted custom order of my 'Octopus in the Shallows Beanie' and really like how it turned out with a green top instead of blue. She wanted seaweed added with the octopus and I like that too. The pattern is available on Ravelry. 🧶🦑

A knitted beanie in shades of light to dark blue with a green grading to gray top and a maroon band with a cockle shell. A knitted sewn on octopus is red, with green eyes and a black pupil.

The same hat with a view of the octopus head and arms with 2 of them wrapping around the shell.

A back view of the hat showing the wave pattern int he crown and a view of the wrack seaweed on either side of the octopus.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Let me in! Let me in! (she has a cat door and she knows how to use it) She is also standing in my raised flower bed. 🌱 #catsky

KitKat, a gray rescue tabby cat is standing in a raised flower bed, paws on the window sill, staring in with mouth open and eyes wide as she yowls to be let in. Behind her are red snapdragons and various types of greenery. Inside is a table with a flowery tea tin holding knitting needles and scissors, and a small wooden carved turtle on the window sill.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Oops, forgot to post this yesterday. My garden column for May 18th. 🌱 #gardening

An article about changing planting times due to warmer weather, the compost pile working at last, fruit in the greenhouse and disappearing bullfrogs.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A longer than usual garden column for May 11th and I barely touched the subject of drip irrigation. 🌱 #gardening

An article about drip irrigation and some of the issues that need to be considered. Includes 2 photos of manifolds used to control irrigation in the author's garden.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This week's garden column 4/27/26 🌱 #gardening

A garden column that talks about gophers and voles and plants that can resist them.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This week's garden column 4/20/26 🌱 #gardening

April gardening problems discussed - hard freezes, blustery weather. The problems of moving an asparagus bed, and the problems of growing water cress.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Took these shots this morning through a rather dirty bedroom window but didn't dare show myself outside. Times like this I'm always reminded just how lucky I am. This is in south central Oregon. Luckier still if he managed to catch a gopher. 📸🦉🌏

A Great Blue Heron stands at the edge of a canal, about 1/2 way up a bank, with the water behind and low blue-flowering Dowingia (I think) flowers at the top of the bank.

The Great Blue Heron is now at the top of the bank and bent over, stalking through the Dowingia flowers (hopefully) for gophers. In the background is a cluster of taller Alyssums.

Another view of the Great Blue Heron stalking for prey on dry land.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Gardening column April 13th. 🌱🌏 🦉 #gardening

A gardening article that talks a lot about the loss of birds due to shrinking wetlands and disease. It includes a photo of Great White Egrets roosting in cottonwood trees.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Just got finished with a springtime daffodil beanie knitting pattern. Next up is to get it tested. 🌱🧶 #gardening

A knitted beanie using stranded colorwork technique in 3 colors. The background is shades of dark green, the daffodils light orange and the leaves, pale green.

A stranded colorwork beanie in shades of brown and blue featuring daffodils that shade from green to light orange.

Clumps of daffodils in yellow and white, the inspiration for the knitting pattern.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Today there are dozens of California tortoiseshells nectaring on my plum blossom here in south central Oregon. 🌱🌏🌿 #inverts #gardening

A butterfly sits at the top of a twig with plum blossom, sunlight shining through its wings.

A butterfly with wings spread to show the orange color with black and yellow speckles, and darked edging sits on a branch of white plum blossom.

A wider view of plum blossom showing 4 butterflies nectaring on the flowers.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

KitKat is a bit of a wimp. She's a rescue cat & is afraid of going outside on her own. She'll sometimes go out with me but always first back to the door. The birds in my yard are very safe - as are the gophers! This is her reaction to my suggestion that she might like to go out the open door. #cats

A tabby cat sits on the floor and peers through the long slender hanging leaves of an indoor plant, with a 'leave me alone' look on her face.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

American Bullfrogs have taken over my garden pond again this year. They come up from the nearby canal in the winter. They decimate the native population of tree frogs and anything else they can fit in their mouths. Not very pretty to look at either! 🌱🌏🐸 #gardening

4 dark green bullfrogs sit piled together on the bank of a pond, among dried plants from last summer and lighter green strawberry leaves.

3 very dark green bullfrogs float on the surface of a pond concealed among the leaves and flowers of a water hawthorn plant.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Daffodils! Lots of daffodils from bulbs dug up by a neighbor a few years ago & given away by the hundreds, then planted out individually by me, in my yard. Other neighbors just dumped them all into one big hole but that didn't work too well for them. The only bulbs to survive the gophers & voles! 🌱

Yellow daffodils flower beneath the fuzzy stems of Staghorn Sumac, which glow in the afternoon sunlight. #gardening

The sloping bank in front of a house is planted with many clusters of early flowering Jetfire daffodils. Later will come the white daffodils.

A clump of white daffodils with yellow trumpets glow int he sunlight behind the large leaves of a Bergenia plant.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My garden column for March 23rd. 🌱 #gardening

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I've started up my garden column again in the Chiloquin News. Now I'm going to have to think about something to write every week! The March 16th column talks about climate change and its effects on my garden. 🌱 #gardening

A gardening article that talks about the current weather and also the ongoing climate change that is affecting what is planted in the garden, and also when things are planted. It has a photo of early daffodils in flower.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

KitKat decided to adopt us about a year ago after spending a cold winter outdoors. Seems like she's happy with her choice. She's a voluntary indoor cat now, pretty much refuses to go out, and when she does, refuses to catch even one gopher for me. #catsky

A chubby tabby cat sleeps on the cushioned seat of a rocking chair, all legs stretched out and tummy exposed.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It's daffodil time in south central Oregon. All the storms are skirting around us and we just have beautiful spring weather, though we might get a little rain tomorrow. 🌱 #gardening

A large clump of bright yellow daffodils is highlighted against a background of brown, bare, shrubs and trees and a blue range of mountains in the background.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A custom order for my Stranded Fangorn Forest Beanie. I don't get much call for this one. Maybe I should have named it an Ents Beanie. 🧶🐡

A handknitted stranded colorwork beanie featuring brown tree-like shapes against a pale blueish color transitioning into yellow shades.

Another view of the beanie, with a very tall and skinny tree, some birds, and a walking tree with 2 small hobbits sitting in the top branches.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The final version of my knitted axolotl is finished. Now it's up for testing on Ravelry (in JoansGarden's group, if you want to find it) 🧶🐸🐡

I called this pattern "Adorable Axolotl' and this face-on view is why, as it peers out from the flowers of my orange tree.

A sideways view of the knitted axolotl showing the dorsal fin and legs. The axolotl is in punk/brown and white mottled colored yarn and the fin is in a mauve shade.

My knitted axolotl shown in it's native habitat - on a rocky bottom under water - though I suspect he'd probably prefer a muddy bottom.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I don't think I can face social media today. It's raining outside, no gardening, so I'm going to knit. 🌱🧶

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This is my Cara Cara orange tree - the first time it's flowered and now I see that the mice got into the greenhouse over winter and have almost totally ring-barked it. They just missed a spot where a stake was too close to the trunk. I have no idea if it will survive. It's very sad... 🌱 #gardening

A small orange tree with many clusters of white flowers, in front of a passion fruit vine.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits animals - I have lots of those. Many are in stranded colorwork, but also, many are softies, and as realistic as I can make them. Here are 3. The patterns are all on Ravelry. Pattern names are in alt text. 🧶🦊🐡 #BSNM

'Roly Poly Pillbug' is a knitting pattern for a pillbug that rolls up into a ball or opens up to reveal 14 legs. This one is in shades of brown and is rolled up on a flowering jade plant.

'Beneficent Bat' is a knitting pattern for a little brown bat. This one has it's wings spread and appears to be flying out of a clump of asparagus fern.

'Antiquated Armadillo' is a knitting pattern for an armadillo. This one is in a blue metallic shade and is standing on a cane table in front of the large green leaves of a Ficus plant.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

For World Pangolin Day here is my pangolin knitting pattern. You can find it on Ravelry as 'Persecuted Pangolin'. 🧶🐡🦊 #BSNM #WorldPangolinDay

A knitted pangolin out for a 'walk' in a weedy meadow.

A closeup view of a knitted pangolin face and feet as it climbs up some wooden steps.

A back view of a knitted pangolin with the sun reflecting off the scales as it walks through some weedy ground.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Another hand knitted XL beanie order finished. This for 'Stranded Whales Beanie'. The pattern is available on Ravelry. 🧶🐡🦑 #BSNM #ocean #whales

A beanie knitted with the stranded colorwork technique featuring a breaching whale in shades of deep blue against a light blue background.

Another view of the beanie this time showing a whale half out of the water with a whale tail in the background.

A third view, showing a whale just starting to erupt from the water and a spray of water in the background.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Red and pink for #ShowMeYourKnits Valentines Day. 'Omniscient Octopus' fits the bill, as does 'Flamingos by the Shore Beanie'. Both patterns are available on Ravelry or in my Etsy shop. 🧶🐡🦑🦉 #BSNM

A hand knitted octopus in shades of red, grading through to purple, is posed on a piece of driftwood with the ocean in the background.

A hand knitted beanie with a wavy pattern in shades of blue, with white ripples and a sand colored band, features a large pink flamingo wading through the ripples.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I just got finished knitting this custom order in size XL. This one is Stranded Sea Turtle Beanie & the pattern is available on Ravelry & in my Etsy store - or I could knit you one. I really like to have something to do with my hands to distract from the awful news every day. 🧶🐡🦑🐍 #BSNM

A beanie knitted in the stranded colorwork style showing a sea turtle and some seaweed in shades of green/purple/pink against a lighter background of turquoise fading through blue and white and back to blue and turquoise.

A different view of the same beanie with another 2 turtles and some small fish.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I started designing an axolotl stuffie back in 2021, shelved it for a few years, then picked it up again last month. Now I have a prototype finished. It still needs a lot of tweaking. For such a simple looking creature it's not a simple pattern! Oh, & my jade plant is flowering. 🌱 🧶🐸🐡 #inverts #BSNM

A hand knitted axolotl stuffie in a pink shade with deep pink fluffy gills, photographed lying among the leaves of a jade plant.

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