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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Got some fresh basil to make pizza and decided to take one of the two stalks of leaves, clip the end, dunk it in Root Boost powder and leave it in a glass of water. Hey presto, it has already formed a couple of tiny roots overnight!

A green stalk of basil leaves in a glass of water.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Pair of Cardinals is convinced that the best nesting materials are in my back porch area, so they keep getting in and themselves trapped there.

Red male cardinal perched above two planter pots near a window screen

Brown female cardinal above a planter pot and glass jar near a window screen

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Gamechanger for my anti-Candida diet food life - buckwheat crust pizza! www.powerhungry.com/2021/09/28/2...

Round pizza with veggies and black olives with cut slices

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Here's the first regrown leek which is getting pretty big by now (a few weeks after sprouting in water and then planting) -- not sure but this might be ready to harvest. 🌱

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Starting to regrow lots of kitchen vegetables now - leeks, green onion,garlic, ginger root and sweet potato. My first regrown leek is looking about ready to harvest for a soup and then start regrowing again. Trying to stretch the budget a bit wherever I can, plus it's fun to grow things. 🌱

Sweet potato, two green onions, a leek and two garlic cloves sprouting in water

A ginger root sprouting in a planter pot

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Two lizards (anoles) fell asleep in the leaves of my Persian Shield plant.

Two green lizards on pink and green leaves

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The muffins. The flour is darker colored, but tastes good!

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Put a garlic clove which had sprouted into water overnight and it developed roots, so trying again on planting garlic! No luck last year. 🌱

White single garlic clove with white roots and greenish-white sprout on top, against red brick background.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Right now it's plant-based plus anti-candida diet so unusually restricted for the next 4 months or so. I repurposed the 2nd "burger" with shirataki noodles and had a pasta dish. This was also tasty ❤️

Pasta in white ceramic dish made of shirataki noodles, mushroom, onion, garlic, chopped Brussels sprouts, black olives and chopped pieces of lentil/onion/mushroom "burger"

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The tiny moments of joy on a restricted diet - tonight I kludged up a lentil/mushroom/onion burger. Even made a lentil gravy/tomatoey sauce to spread on top. Tasty, plus I still have an extra burger with sauce to enjoy tomorrow. Very happy about this small win. 👍

Lentil burger cooking in oil in fry pan, made of ground lentils, garlic, sweet onion, cauliflower, buckwheat "cream of wheat' and buckwheat flour. Oil flavored with Tony Chachere's seasoning.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Turns out it is dead easy to regrow a leek. This is 5 days after putting bottom 2 inches (just white part at root end) into water and using rest for leek soup. About to plant outside (and then do same again at harvest.) 🌱

Leek with white end sprouting roots in about 1 inch of water and new green regrowth sprouting from top.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

JustEgg vegan egg breakfast. Made extra to add into a fried rice dish for later. I added avocado on top after taking the picture. Alternative to the H5N1 egg risk and the egg shortages in stores.

Scrambled vegan "egg" dish with mushrooms, onions, garlic, chopped Brussels sprouts and Tony Chachere's Creole seasoning, in a black and white patterned bowl.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Dog experiencing snow for the first time.

Black and white dog on a leash standing on snowy ground

Black and white dog near a blue wagon and plant stand standing amid snow and ice covered vegetation

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Inept DIY tip of the day - I'm trying an inverted empty growbag to protect an outdoor faucet from impending snowstorm.

Upside-down white growbag with a black bottom.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Ginger plant has sprouted from the chunk of ginger root I planted. I've been using a lot of fresh ginger lately so I thought it might be good to try and grow some. 🌱

Green seedling with two leaves growing from soil in a black planter pot.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Need to start processing my harvested and dried stevia plants as I am running out of the store bought stevia! 🌱

A glass vase with a dried stevia plant on a table next to a mortar and pestle

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Tree with roots exposed at the edge of a creek

Oak tree trunk with complex exposed root system amid dirt and green foliage

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

BREAKING: There is a Squirrel!

Black and white dog sitting amid greenery, looking intently upward.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The geese always fly in to land on this pond around the same time each evening. 🌿

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Feeling happy that I got the compost heap going 🌱

Repurposed wooden dresser flipped on its back with drawers removed and layered inside with sticks, brown grass, vegetable waste, brown grass, dirt, and brown leaves with screen on top held down by 4 red bricks.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Watching the ducks down at the pond, waiting for the geese to fly in.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I can now report that a purple sweet potato pie tastes good, but looks alarming.

Purple sweet potato pie slice in a white ceramic dish, looking more black but with purple tones.

Color of the original purple potato before pie making use, which is more reddish purple

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Small Pine Woods treefrog here was checking out the black-eyed Susan planter. 🌿

Light brown frog with dark brown spots on a black plastic planter near a green leaf

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Maple leaves brightly lit up by the sun.

Red leaves against a brown tree trunk with some white twigs.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Today working on processing sweet potatoes. I have concepts of a plan around freezing both sweet potato fries and mashed sweet potato. Also gave away a first bagful (mixing orange and purple.)

Nine or so orange sweet potato fries in a black and white mosaic-patterned bowl.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Monday morning Marigolds. 🌱

Two bright yellow multipetaled flowers amid green leaves

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Started putting homemade decorations on the chaos garden tree (I don't have anything else other than lights.) Decorations shown here: acorns, dried orange slices with cinnamon stick, pine cones, red berries, fungi, dried flowers.

Yellow flower, red berries, acorn with red bow, fungus, and dried orange with cinnamon stick hang as decorations from green pine saplings with string of white lights

Pine tree saplings and pine boughs with pinecones in a large round black planter pot, decorated with red and yellow flowers, acorns, dried orange slices and red berries. Three small ceramic figures of people stand in the dirt in the planter pot.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Just to let you know you are not alone. My kitchen floor right now in a cold snap (actually it's become even more crowded since this picture).

Potted plants on a tarp on the floor including marigold, Persian Shield, strawberries, Croton, black eyed Susan

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Cleared out the dead sweet potato vines today after yesterday's frost, and checked the beds and grow bags a last time - it seems I missed a few. Going to also look up if there are any cautions on reusing the sweet potato soil with other crops. 🌱

Two large black containers full of red and orange sweet potatoes.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Making ornaments from found objects for the chaos garden tree.

Three small pinecone with twist ties added to the top for hanging as ornaments, and three large acorns - two of the acorns have wire affixed to the top for hanging

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Big freeze last night- lots of frost-covered plants and the water dish I have out for insects and birds froze solid. End of hurricane season and start of winter! 🌱

Frost covered white wildflowers on long stalks

Green leaves edged in white frost around the leaves and down the stems

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Much like the Tithonia flower is actually a whole cluster of flowers, this chaos garden Christmas tree is really about 12 small live pine trees together in a single planter. Clears some of the chaos from the garden, and also creates a small live Christmas tree to decorate for the holidays.🌱

Large round black planter bucket filled with dirt and green pine tree seedlings.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Trying the oven method to cure harvested sweet potatoes- they are in plastic bags with slits cut in the top, and a pan of water for humidity. Attempt is to have them at 80F degrees for two weeks. Supposed to improve sweetness. 🌱

Oven with two shelves of plastic bagged sweet potatoes and a third shelf on top with a baking pan full of water.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Cold snap coming! Plants are now moved in from outside to the kitchen floor. Croton is going to hate this & probably drop leaves, but will hate it either way whether left inside or outside. 🌱

Large assortment of potted plants together includes plants with green leaves, red leaves, purple leaves and orange/yellow leaves.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Sweet potato haul over 2 days thus far without pulling the vines or small potatoes is about 40ish (dog for scale- actually she just came and sat in my lap during photo.) Curing next! 🌱 www.epicgardening.com/curing-sweet...

Two blue plastic bins with about 20 red sweet potatoes each. Face of black dog looks down from the right.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I am looking at all your Thanksgiving vegan plates. Hats off to the Wellington cook, I was going to do that but ran out of energy. This year I was all about the sides and Patti LaBelle sweet potato pie, & only thought to throw together the red bean entree last minute. Happy Thanksgiving!

Ginger sesame cabbage w/JustEgg and red beans, Mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy, corn on the cob and sweet potato pie in gluten-free crust

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Chaos garden sweet potato grow bag gardening result- using here a 10 gallon grow bag w/flap, left pic shows I filled it to top, middle pic is haul from just that one bag. I found flap shown at right not very useful though for getting out potatoes. 🌱

White grow big filled to top with dirt and sweet potato vines.

Mix of 10 or so red sweet potatoes lying in grass

Grow bag flap opened showing dirt and glimpse of a red sweet potato

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Here's the color of the sweet potatoes gathered yesterday (sliced in half -red; cooked- purple) - I know I actually need to cure these for a couple weeks 🌱

Red sweet potato with red interior sliced in half

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I decided to clear out the first sweet potato bed today in the chaos garden after allowing several cold days to go by...I was hoping to just get any yield at all..but look at these MONSTER TUBERS! The light colored ones are more normal sized. I still have 5 more beds and some grow bags to harvest.🌱

10 or so red sweet potatoes, two that are small to normal sized and more orange in color, the others ridiculously larger and darker red

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

A green lizard (anole) hanging out on my Black-eyed Susan flower on a gray day as it starts to rain. 🌱

A green lizard sitting on a red and orange multipetaled flower with a black and yellow center, amid greenery

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Still stragglers out on the milkweed! Can't bring myself to cut the food source out from under them. 🌱

Black, white and yellow caterpillar eating a green leaf near a red and orange spray of blossoms

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Dog insists on a ritual of watching the sunset each evening. We are sitting and looking.

Silhouette of a tree against a black, pink and yellow sunset sky

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Yikes, thanks. It was on a milkweed flower near another stalk where a Monarch caterpillar was. So this means I've now actually seen the wasp probably involved in the parasitoidal process of the Monarch caterpillars (& it did not look anything like the regular wasp I imagined!) It was near this guy.

Black, yellow and white caterpillar on green stalk eating a green leaf.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Echinacea flower- will have to look up what you actually do with it for harvest 🌱

Purple flower with yellow circle in purplish center

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Not sure what sort of insect this is on the milkweed- dragonfly? #invertebrates

Long insect with brown wing and black and red abdomen/tail on orange and yellow flowers amid green leaves

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Fungi clusters growing in sawdust pile left over from stump grinding after a tornado #FungiFriends

Clusters of white and semi-translucent fungi growing from ground-up tree stump sawdust

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My stevia plants have been hanging to dry which has been a fall festive touch, but now that the leaves are all dried I need to look up how to process the stevia for homemade sweetener. I started with 15 seeds and was able to successfully grow and harvest 3 plants. 🌱

Plant with green leaves and green stem hanging in a white curtained window tied at the top with a strip of red fabric.

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Followed advice here (thanks!) to drop in a banana in the brown paper bag where I was ripening some small green tomatoes picked from the garden - here's results 3 weeks later (additional green tomatoes picked & added since the start!) 🌱

15 small tomatoes of varying colors ranging from red at far right through yellowish to lighter green and darker green

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Lorri @lorriberri.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Finally started cutting back the milkweed for end of Monarch butterfly season, I see this #invertebrates 🌱

Black, yellow and white striped caterpillar on a green stem near yellow and red sprays of blossoms beside a brick wall.

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