Apples n Spice

@applesnspice

Interests: Politics, Scotland, Nature, Orchards, Crofting, Permaculture, Gardening, Forestry, Scottish Gaelic, Social policy, LGBTQ, 💚 Green, hEDS, YES Scot Indy, 🏳️‍🌈

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Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Jul 4

Rules for my Bluesky account #1

And opposum meme: opposum looking back seemingly smiling caption says "You look depressed"
"Thanks, it's the depression"

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Jul 1

Good morning :)

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Jun 26

Because the coward predictably removed his terrible post we have screengrabs.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Jun 25

Americans go from 22 degree AC indoors to AC cars to AC indoors again. There isn't a soul outside in their sea of concrete/asphalt built environments of ugly car parks, strip malls. It's no way to live. European solutions are layered. Good long discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCz6...

Image of a post:
"‪bedley smutler‬
‪@myrrlyn.net‬
· 9h
no, it wouldn’t, because you would mount the heat exchanger on the roof and create little vortices moving upward from there. this may come as a shock to you but we do residential aircon even in cities like philly and dc where we have tightly packed rowhouse construction"

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Jun 22

Loving this luscious cloud cover keeping the heat at bay over much of Scotland this morning. 16 degrees w a high of 20 is doable.

Screen grab from the windy app of a Map of the UK with current cloud cover showing most of southern, central and the south highlands of Scotland under cloud cover. Most of England w very few to no clouds.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Jun 18

So glad I decided to grow tomatillos this year. 🌱 I was concerned about pollination so I put them at the end of the polytunnel near the doors. They are very easy to grow and the bees adore the flowers. I cannot wait to make chilli verde sauce for chicken chilli verde.

Zoomed in shot of the underside of a tomatillo plant. A few lighter green papery tomatillos are growing under the leaf canopy

A grouping of Green Tomatillo plants growing in large black buckets

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Jun 9

Saw these two bees huddling under a chive flower after a cloud burst downpour yesterday. #Bees #Flower

Close up of a light purple chive blossom with two bees underneath. 1 bee holding onto the flower and the other holding onto their friend to stay dry.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Jun 8

Peony coral charm blooming! These were only planted this year and I'm so happy to see a bloom!

Cropped image looking down at an open bloom of a peony, coral charm. Yellow center with pinkish/apricot slightly ruffly edged petals

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Jun 5

If I had to choose just one plant to have it would be chives. Perennial, fully edible, no maintenance really, I pick from them for my food daily, beautiful, pollinators love them, deer don't eat them (at least the ones at mine don't).

Image of the light purple flowers and stems of a chive plant with trees and green foliage in the background.

A closeup image of a single, small fuzzy honeybee on the side of a single light purple chive flower with a blurred background

Close up of a fuzzy honybee on a light purple chive flower with a blurred green and purple hued background.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 28

25 today and too warm for Scotland. I'm very excited about the weather starting tomorrow. Those are very nice working outside temperatures. Looking forward to being more productive again. Been too warm to work outside or even inside. My house needs some attention Lol

A list of temperatures on a 15 day forecast for Southern Scotland, specific area purposely left off the image, ranging from 15 to 19 degrees celcius

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 27

22 degrees outside but 35 and hot AF inside my polytunnel. Have shade cloth up to try and not cook my plants before they get a chance to be planted out. Look how lovely my tomatillo plant is? Love eating them and first time growing them. I love the flowers.

Holding up a green temperature guage showing 35 degrees celcius inside a plastic polytunnel with plants on the edges in pots and on potting tables.

Holding a 15 cm tall leafy and begeinning ti flower small yellow flowers, tomatillo verde variety plant in an orange plastic pot up with a blurred background of an open polytunnel

Close up of a yellow frilled flower w a dark green, dotted centre on a small tomatillo plant. Variety is verde.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 16

I love growing things so much.🌱 Kinda wish I had a friend nearby to share my growing space with but hey ho. Purple sprouting broccoli went from seed snail to pots and a first glut of radishes which I put into a jar using a quick pickle method. Ill keep adding to the jar as they're ready to harvest.

A half unrolled seed snail sitting on a potting table. Seed snail: compost rolled into a retangle of plastic with purple sprouting broccoli seedlings about 5cm tall with good root development.

About 15 scarlet globe red rasishes freshly picked sitting in a pile on a piece of wood laying on grass.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 16

I see she has since deleted her post. Wow!! 😂

Screengrab of my quote post showing the original post deleted. My comment: if they had principles left, they wouldn't still be in the Labour party. We knos you'll all keep the creepy and desperate attacks up. Oddly thanks, it helps the Greens win.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 13

Wishaw Town Bistro is so good. £22 for 2 specialty burgers, a large skin on crispy chips and 2 cans of juice. We got the Desperado: chipotle mayo, jalapeños, hot honey sauce nom nom.

Burger and skin on fries with hot honey sauce.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 9

This time with moar "there's no magic money tree" and this Labour monstrosity?

Labour's red anti-immigration mug with words printed in white on the mug, "Controls on immigration. I'm voting Labour"

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 9

Apple blossoms in an old orchard🍎🌸

View of apple blossom blooming on an old apple tree

View the edge of an old orchard with blue sky, whispy clouds, a tree line of blooming apple trees in the centre of the photo and green lumpy field grass in the lower portion of the photo

Close up of an outstretched branch of an old apple tree with pink apple blossoms and green leaves

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 8

As wild as I get. Let's goooooo

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 5

🌱 Tried the seed snail method this year for starting and tranferring tray grown seedlings and wow. Root growth is fantastic. Been putting my snails in terracotta pots. I sowed my 2nd round for succession planting. I use cut up compost bags. #SeedSowing #SeedSnail #GrowingFood

Dwarf purple bean seedlings grown in the seed snail method sitting in a terracotta pot on a bench of other potted up in orange pot seedlings in a polytunnel

An unrolled seed snail (compost rolled up in plastic) of dwarf puple bean seedlings sitting in a black rectangle tray on a potting bench showing the very good root growth all the way to the bottom of the seed snail.

A beginning seed snail of fresh compost on a retangular piece of plastic and bean seeds on one side ready to be rolled up to grow on.

The top down view of an upright newly made seed snail spiral. It is compost rolled into a retangular piece of plastic. I used leftover compost bags cut into retangular pieces.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 4

I'm inclined to believe that's a middle finger up.

Screengrab of the person from the Labour AI propganda photo with an arm raised in the air that perhaps is raising a middle finger? Who knows with AI slop.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· May 4

💙 The bluebells have been particularly good this year. The fragrance has been lovely as well. #Bluebells #NativePlants #Scotland #Birdsong 🐤🎶

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Apr 28

🌱 An adorable blue tit was in my polytunnel today. Probably came in through gaps under the doors. I tried to let him out but he preferred to stay in and feast on the many bugs and spiders around. He hoped around the place bug hunting while I worked.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Apr 27

🌱 Planted this Polemonium, heaven scent variety recently and I'll definitely be getting more of these. They smell beautiful, have been flowering well that the bees love and have lovely foliage.

A polemonium heaven scen variety, purple flowers, brown stems, green fern like foliage at the bottom, planted in a flowerbed surrounded by woodchip and a few other small plants

Clpse up of purple Polemonium flowers on their brown stems against a blurred background of green foliage and brown woodchip.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Apr 24

🌱 Planted out radishes and some cabbage under a cover. So excited for this year's growing season.

Image of Two small square orange pots of multi sowed Malaga Radishes sitting on dirt in the foreground, under a plastic grow house cover. A row of already planted radishes behind.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Apr 24

🌱 Sowed some onion sets and carrots yesterday using the 2 plank method placing compost only where the planting is since comppst is precious. These are going to be under fleece protection. This is a new no dig bed on cardboard so I sowed short carrot variety Paris Market.

Image of veg plot garden bed being planted w compost in a channel between 2 wood planks, 4x channels across. Scene next to a poly tunnel and a woodland edge on a sunny day.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Apr 24

1/2 My annual collecting of nettles to make a nettle and brown sugar concentrate fertiliser. I do a 1 to 1 by weight amount of nettle and brown sugar, tear and mix the leaves in a large bowl, fill a sterile jar of the leaves 3/4 full, add sprinkle of brown sugar and a clean/boiled rock to the jar.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Mar 9

The daffs are blooming and it is quite cheery ☺ #Spring Daffodils

A clump of relatively tall, blooming, classic yellow daffodils on the edge of a woodland

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Mar 7

Glasgow looked beautiful today. Enjoyed walking the dogs in Victoria Park and Glasgow Green w delicious lunch at Koi 💚 Spring has arrived in Scotland

Image of the Clyde River from a bridge in Glasgow

Image of daffodils, crocuses and trees amongst grass in Victoria Park, Glasgow.

Image of a walking path with some trees alongside in pink blooms w crocuses blooming underneath in Victoria Park in Glasgow

Image of Glasgow Green a park in Glasgow. Walking path to the left, large open lawn in the centre w a few people dotted about enjoying the late afternoon blue sky and sun.

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Mar 4

Some lovely things in my Spring garden 🌱💚🌲

Image of a mauve flowering hellebore plant

Image of 2 snowdrop flowers against a slightly blurred green and brown backdrop

Image of a cropping of stones stacked in a wall with mosses and some ferns growing on the stones

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Mar 3

The moonrise looks amazing right now.

Image of the Full moon against a dark sky zoomed in

Apples n Spice@applesnspice· Mar 2

To reverse engineer a consent for any evil or propaganda. Got it. Good to see you put that in writing. You know what they say about stupid people - losses to others and losses to themselves