Time To Start "Fostering" A Gardener
Fostering (Adopting) A Steemian Gardener
The other day I had mentioned in a post that I would be starting to foster a gardener as part of my Spreading the Stewards Of Gondor love.
For this event, I am looking to my homesteading and gardening community to nominate a fellow gardener- OR yourself!!!
I will take all the nominations into consideration and every Monday, starting next week (January 29) I will announce the gardener I will be fostering.
Fostering? How?
Just like my Embracing A Steemian that I do on Sunday, I will be working with, offering support (whether with post ideas, formatting questions, or whatever the gardener needs advice on). The fostered gardener will also receive 100% UPvotes from me throughout the week.
There will be some requirements of the nominee.
Qualifications for being FOSTERED:
* MUST post EVERY day for the week (Tuesday through the following Monday)- consistency is key
- While dedication and consistency are important- it has been brought to my attention that there are MANY members who are dedicated, but with spotty (rural) internet connections, band-width issues and various other legitimate concerns, posting every day may become an issue. So I have taken this into consideration for the "fostering" initiative challenge.
- One post you make a day will be UPvoted at 100% by me. **NOTE: Consideration that if you cannot post daily, I will still UPvote SEVEN quality posts. So if you post two quality posts one day but none the next two days, you will still get the guaranteed 100% UPvotes.
- MUST have less than 500SP
- MUST have a minimum reputation of 35
- YOU MUST accept this challenge in my weekly Monday post if I have called upon you
- Topics MUST BE gardening, herbs, flowers, planting, greenhouse, etc (you get the picture here)
- You MUST have established the gardening topic(s) within your page already; where I can see the gardening posts are what you're writing about.
- You MUST BE available in Discord for some one-on-one tutoring or Q&A time.
- DEADLINE to nominate is Sunday January 28 at midnight, EST/USA.
PLEASE resteem and share so we can get as many nominations that I can. I will be using this list to continue with this fostering initiative.
Once you have accepted this challenge and made a quality post, you will see this in the comment section indicating that I have fulfilled my end of the fostering.
You have been chosen to be my Fostered Gardener Of The Week Thanks to @fulltimegeek's delegation as a Steward of Gondor @goldendawne will be here for you to assist, guide and help you GROW- just like your garden- on steemit. Please accept this 100% Upvote for this post. You will receive a 100% Upvote for every post (up to seven per week) you make for the seven days CONGRATULATIONS on being a committed steemian!
You really are the busiest bee in the garden @goldendawne and as a relative (3week old) newbie on here I am simply in awe at the level of dedication and kindness you are pollinating everywhere on steemit! 🐝
I am not a homesteader by any stretch of the imagination. What I do have is the smallest little back yard you could ever imagine, in the centre of a northern UK city. It's shady and completely concreted, enclosed by walls on all sides and gets very little direct sunlight BUT over the last 2 years I have tried my darndest to make it into a haven learning everything I could about shade loving plants, including growing veggies and fruit.
You might find it hard to believe but I have 14 trees (all semi bonsai'd) all growing very well including;
Oak (grown by me from an acorn!)🌿
Maple (acers in 4 different varieties...one of which, palmatum purpureum, is over 30years old)🌳
Holly, Willow, Bay (now 20 years old despite the moth caterpillers which adore eating it) Norwegian Pine (our living Christmas tree) 🌲and even, for irony if nothing else, a bonsai giant sequoia!
View from our house...on the right you can just see my composting bins
View from the bench where I love to sit watching the butterflies and bees busy at work.
Veggies that grow well here have been tomatoes (mostly in baskets cherry tumblers) every kind of herb I can get my hands on, lettuces, rocket, land cress, mitzuma, alpine stawberries, and spuds/potatoes. I should say I am completely organic and absolutely refuse to put any chemical near my babies! Plus I am blessed in as much as I plant it and it grows! 🌱
As a vegan, I eat lots of mushrooms and this year I am really hankering to grow some of my own...been researching it a bit and would welcome advice from anyone on how best to do this in the extremely limited space I have available. 🍄I was thinking of shiitake and oyster to start with but as a beginner maybe I am over reaching!? 😊
I probably don't qualify in this case because I am a humble pot bound gardener trying to create sanctuary from city living for myself and my daughter but a little mushroom advice, shady plant suggestions or veggies and fruits that you have found thrive in shade would be deeply appreciated.
Lovely idea and thanks so much for ALL you do⭐️
THAT is an absolutely GORGEOUS concrete garden! No matter the size!
You have really used some great ways to implement containers, pots and buckets!
Space allotment can be an issue; I know it is for me. I have to get pretty creative with my garden. This coming year will be my BIGGEST attempt at container/bucket gardening. Fingers crossed for success
Gosh thank you @goldendawne I am glad you like it. I have become quite creative, repurposing several strange and wonderful things into pots for plants and trees. I got a lovely dark red buddleia that had a huge root ball (and I had at that time run out of pots) so I used a vintage coal skuttle which was too heavy to lift when filled with coal anyway. This meant the plant had height and could grab what little light the garden gets!
This time of year (if you are in the northern hemisphere) is exciting because we are all at the planning stages of our gardens wondering what to plant, which seeds and varieties we will be buying/sharing and planning the space allocations (easy in my tiny little one). I am turning my thoughts to the mushroom beds UNDER the benches, and drawing up designs to maks shallow boxes to put them on tree bark chips, and busy brewing up some seaweed and comfrey fertiliser.
Happy bucket and pot gardening...and hoping you have a blooming great growing season...green fingers crossed 🌱💚🌿
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good job
thank you! I love helping others; must be the mothering instinct I have.
I love supporting your projects, Upvoted and resteemed my friend
Thank you! And back at you! Ill always support your Youth Initiative!
I dont have a garden so wouldn’t be a good candidate and hence will not apply, but this is a cool initiative and good luck with it tip!
Thank you! I know you are always so supportive of all the positive things people do on here and your words never go unnoticed by me!
Just doing the right thing 😎
Sounds great!
Are you in????
🌽
Sure! What do I need to do?
Just met me know here who you are nominating... yourself... another new steemian gardener... or BOTH!
How about both! @awesomehomestead and myself! :D
Love this idea and would love to be a part of it! Unfortunately I don't qualify YET! I am working on it! But once I do, I will be sure to interact! Way to go @goldendawne! following!
When you get to the gardening part of life... come on back! I'll be here!
I could use some gardening support, lol. Not the upvote part above, particularly since I don't qualify. I was posting with another member about growing potatoes this year. They helped me find the zone map which led me to another chart with vegetables for my zone. It looks like May for potatoes. This will be my first foray into tubers in my small garden. I may have questions...
Ahhh, always best to be prepared for the growing and harvesting season!
May isn't that far off!
Last autumn I had some red skinned potatoes in the garden- OMGosh! They were the best dang taters in the world! lol
What an awesome idea - you rock :)
Thank you!! I know you're newer to steemit; so if you ever need some help... I'm here!
Thank you very much for the kind offer - very new and fumbling about at this stage :)
Okay, lets try this out