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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:27:04 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

There's a kind of satisfaction that you get from growing your own food. Yesterday, I harvested the water spinach from my back balcony and stir fried it. Amazing that all this food grew from seeds that barely fit a teaspoon.
#gardening #vegetables #balconygarden #garden
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  Bowreality (bowreality@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:49:34 JST Bowreality
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  @liztai The best feeling isn’t it?! I grow more every year. We are still deep in winter but I am planning and buying seeds and have started some stuff inside. Can’t wait!
  
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  Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:49:34 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
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  @bowreality So satisfying! I've always gardened, but earnestly began to improve my skills when the pandemic hit and veges were in short supply. Now I can't stop hehe
  
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  Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:53:14 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
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  @bowreality Awesome. Yeah veges have gotten SO expensive where I am :( I have Brazilian spinach, ginger, salad leaves and water spinach. Each harvest is worth about RM4 in the stores. It's nuts. (For context, it used to be RM1-2)
  
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  Bowreality (bowreality@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:53:15 JST Bowreality
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  @liztai Definitely a skill to have. I go in waves but stuff is getting so expensive now I am all in. And it tastes so much better too. We started growing potatoes a few years ago and I can’t buy them anymore. We go for a while without because the ones in the stores don’t even compare. I rather eat none before I eat the bought ones 🤷🏻♀️
  
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  Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:54:45 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
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  @wjjunyor I was useless before too but you make mistakes and learn! If there's one lesson I'll give people is this - always use the best soil you can. Soil found in our gardens often have diseases, pests and contaminants, so I just buy the best soil I can and then work from there.
  
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  Galadriel of the Noldors ★ (wjjunyor@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:54:46 JST Galadriel of the Noldors ★
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  @liztai I wish I was good on growing food/plants
  
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  Bowreality (bowreality@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 11:06:29 JST Bowreality
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  @liztai Here as well. They wanted $11 for 6 peppers last time (usually $6-7) so I am trying my hand at peppers this year! A pack of seeds is cheap enough to try! Lettuce and cucumber were so expensive last spring as well so I bought more seeds. Hadn’t tried cucumbers yet and it was so easy to grow last summer!
  
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  Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 11:06:29 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
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  @bowreality My dad was in love with his cucumbers! He was so happy with each of them eventhough we barely ate them haaha. Happy growing. It's so rewarding :)
  
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  Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 11:21:51 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
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  @bowreality Will do! I think you'll like reading this blog post of mine about my dad's community garden - https://elizabethtai.com/blog/simple-living-edible-garden-benefits/
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    The community garden where I get down with the dirt. 16 OCTOBER 2020 Last year, someone asked me what I did to relax. I said: I blog, write fiction and read. Sometimes, I love to go to a cafe to re…
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  Bowreality (bowreality@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 11:21:52 JST Bowreality
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  @liztai That’s great! Cucumbers rock! Happy growing to you as well. Keep posting pics!
  
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  CowsLookLikeMaps (cowslooklikemaps@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 12:50:43 JST CowsLookLikeMaps
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  @liztai This is awesome!! You might also like the balcony gardening community on Lemmy https://slrpnk.net/c/balconygardening
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