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The First 'Official' #GardenJournal Challenge of 2026

New year, new look! Although so many of you are in the habit of posting a garden update around the first of every month, we like to remind you and to invite new...

How to make a Christmas Pikachu with its Coca-Cola and its parallel.🎄🧋🌸🌟/Cómo elaborar un Pikachu de Navidad con su Coca-Cola y su paral.

Hello, creative friends! Greetings to all. I'm sharing my idea for making a Christmas Pikachu drawing with its Coca-Cola and a friend, easily and simply using r...

Can you overdose on Walnuts?

Cracking and peeling walnuts has become a(n almost) daily task, in the last month and a half or so and @clareartista and I still have Kilos and Kilos of them to...

A Quick Look at My Kangkong and Kamote Tops Thriving Naturally Without care, Fertilizer or Extra Attention

Hello dear garden lovers here at @hivegarden! I hope you’re all doing well and still enjoying every moment spent with your plants. Today, I want to take you on ...

Growing Shallots From Start To Harvest (From Shallots In The Kitchen)

If there's one crop I highly recommend growing for family food security, it's onions. Since I live in the lowlands, I can only recommend growing shallots. Espec...

My Lettuce Eaten by Rats

----- ----- You might be surprised by the title above. Do rats really eat lettuce? Are rats vegetarian? That begs the question: are rats really eager to eat let...

From Saved Seeds to a Greener Backyard: How My String Beans Brought New Life to Our Little Garden

Hello my dear Hive gardeners! It’s another wonderful day to share something close to my heart – Our backyard string beans! These string bean seeds are extra spe...

Chayote Farm: Easiest to Grow, Low Maintenance and Harvests All Year Around

In our farm, surrounded by cool mountains air, our family finds joy in growing vegetables. Among all the crops we plant chayote (sayote) has always been one of ...

Flexing My Mother's Little Farm

Hello Hivers , from all over the world. Have a nice day. Today I'm going to show you my mother's farm, where her life revolves around. I let everyone know that ...

The Farmer’s Life: The Corn from Hard Work and Perseverance Is Now Harvested.

Hello, my fellow gardeners! I have another update today about my brother’s corn and how he managed everything after the harvest. My brother Arnold was supposed ...

Growing up and out 🪴 of its pot.

We are going to do Drosera maintenance today. This is important to do because the plant starts to grow up and out of the moss that it's situated in. If I don't ...

Time for the October Garden Journal Challenge!

Absolutely LOVE the start of the month - everyone seems excited to show off their gardens for the Hive Garden Journal challenge. It's bittersweet this month tho...

Farm updates a little before autumn starts

When I walked out to my workshop yesterday I was greeted by the peacock. Kinda surprised me as I was not expecting it to be right next to me, but it just stood ...

Assessing The 'Old Garden' - Lots to Do Before We Move!

I feel like I should be posting this for the Hive Garden Garden Journal Challlenge, where we all write about our gardens at the beginning of the month. However,...

August Gardening Journal: Surviving

Different places certainly have different circumstances, with different weather and temperatures. Different gardens, different problems. As someone who gardens ...

For a change, I am here again with the flowers I collected from around the place.

Hello Hive friends! Today I want to share about different plants. Some of them I didn’t grow myself but because I love plants so much, I always make sure to tak...

Leaving A(n Italian) Garden After 15 yrs...

Dearest Hive Gardeners 🌳🐛💐 Today we had a small (possibly our very final) jaunt down into the (now almost completely overgrown) gardens below our Arthouse in...

Back to LA

It is not what you think. I do not visit or plan to visit Los Angeles anytime soon. I am talking about Latin America. It is my first time back since the death o...

This Morning's Finds at the Nature Reserve!

Lower Madero Walkway Well, it is summertime again and I am up and outdoors at 7:00 a.m. as is my habit on nice days and this is one (all but the mosquitoes). So...

Chili Peppers are Coming to Harvest

I Planted on Chili Plant And I got five chili peppers so far. One (the cover) just went into a batch of Chili for a friend who was missing the wonderful stew wh...