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🌿 Professional Gardener | YouTuber | Eco Blogger | Home Baker | Wannabe Homesteader 🌱 🌻 Welcome to my Thrifty Green Life

Southampton, England

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Nikki - Thrifty Green Life💚

2 years

In 2016 I got fired from my job for being pregnant, I’ve spent the last 5 years building my confidence back up after hitting rock bottom. This year I took an RHS gardening course and TODAY I gained my first client. I am OFFICIALLY a self employed gardener! Can you believe it?

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2 years

Unpopular opinion…. I HATE Halloween! Pointless, full of plastic garbage and a massive waste of pumpkins and my time!

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2 years

For pure giggles, here’s my post for #WNGD2022 #wngd #WorldNakedGardeningDay 😂🙈

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Our little lad and his very clever grandad who spent a year building this Land Rover defender from scratch!

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Garden posy, last of the sweet peas. I’m so proud of how many I grew this year!

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1 year

I have booked to see 10 potential new gardening customers next week all from a little ad on the @Nextdoor app. I’m hoping this is going to be the turn around for my little gardening business. We will see 🥰

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1 year

Guess what? I’m freaking qualified ! 🙃 @RHS_Learning

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2 years

You know you’re old when you get excited by storage solutions 😂

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I hope my neighbours didn’t see me 😂😂😂 #WorldNakedGardeningDay #wngd #wngd2022

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2 years

Just got my second gardening client guys! *cue high pitched squeal *

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4 years

Three years ago I saw a weird looking orange fruit hanging over someone’s fence and after seeing the beautiful flowers I nabbed one and threw it in some soil. 😬 After nearly giving up hope of ever seeing a flower this year my work paid off! THREE YEARS! Look at this beauty 🥰

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Evening garlic harvest and I am now fully stocked up for the year! 🧄

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3 years

Fake grass vs nature.... guess which half is my garden! 🌧

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2 years

Soooooo this happened 😌 @GWmag Frostie!!!!

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3 years

Who gets a custom built working digger for their birthday? This is one lucky boy with one extremely clever and kind grandad!!!

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2 years

Finished my RHS course today yippee! I’ve learnt many things but the most important thing being how to plant things neatly.... it won’t last 😂🌱

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1 year

Please STOP doing this to beautiful plants it’s 🤮

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3 years

After 4 nights camping I have come to the conclusion that I LOVE nature, I just don’t want to sleep in it 😂

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4 years

@RachaelCampey That is so lovely! I graduated in 2014 at 32 with my 11 year old by my side 🥰 well done you! I know first hand how hard it is as a young mum what an amazing example you’ve set for your daughter x

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4 years

Finally finished my plant shelf and I can honestly say I LOVE IT!!!!! Did I mention I made it myself! With help from my very clever father in law! I could just stare at it forever 😂

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2 years

Look at this combo! It’s heaven! Does anyone know what the flowers are?

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2 years

Question…. Do you think it’s time that the gardening stereotype had a brand overhaul? It’s not just for old retired folks! The tv shows are all the same! Isn’t it time to spice it up? It’s getting a bit stale! Who else agrees? @autisticgardner

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2 years

I want to introduce you all to my new bestie ‘Scout’ he’s been keeping us very busy the last couple of days!

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1 year

Today I did my first ever prune of an espalier apple tree, it looks pretty, hopefully it’s all ok 😬

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2 years

Here is my tiny vine cutting! How freaking awesome is that! Can’t believe it actually worked!

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4 months

Next year I’ve decided to concentrate on growing veg we actually eat, so no more fancy weird stuff that is pointless to us, lots more potatoes, onions, carrots and garlic, plus I might knock the old brassicas on the head cos they are a monumental pain in the arse!

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2 years

Luuuush day on the plot today! The SAD is lifting and I planted some spuds! 🥔 ☀️

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4 years

I finally finished my recycled fruit crate. What do you think @darrenlakin2 ? 🥰

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2 years

My first loganberries are almost ready!!

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3 years

It’s just a plait of onions I grew! Successfully may I add! Lol

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1 year

Not me and my first published gardening article in @TheSun today 😍

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3 years

So pleased that #gardenersworld did a feature on peat bogs. I hope it informed more gardeners about the use of peat in horticulture. GO #PEATFREE it’s the best way!

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4 years

If you look carefully you can see so many bees buzzing around! I think I’ve made some 🐝 very happy with my flower bed 🥰 #bees

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2 years

It’s finally cauli time 😍 #GardeningTwitter

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Good afternoon from the plot! 😍

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3 years

OMG I start college next week doing an RHS course ! My dreams have come true!! 😂🥕🌱✌️ #37yearoldstudent

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The queen of massive veg returns! This time it’s an actual parsnip, not a carrot! Lol

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Someone knocked my door earlier, but I wasn’t expecting anyone so I stayed quiet and didn’t answer. Anyone else do this? 😂😂🙈

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10 months

Does anyone else grow things cos they look beautiful and won’t eat them? Lol

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2 years

Ooh, allotment strawbs 🍓

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2 years

Here is my little story on #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2022 #IWD2022 #IWD22 💪🏻

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This is not to be miserable is just goes against everything I believe in. Plastic tat everywhere that’s reduced after Halloween and will probably end up in landfill. Millions and millions of waste pumpkins. I have children, I try to grow a pumpkin every year so we can carve etc

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3 years

You know when you feel so low that you don’t even want to do the things that you know will make you happier? That’s where I’m at.

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3 years

My new followers are going to be really disappointed when they realise my whole feed is actually just plants and gardening and not nudity 😂😂

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On the other hand I love Christmas, baking Christmas food, making Christmas decorations, giving gifts and spending time with loved ones, it doesn’t compare. It’s just Halloween has no meaning or purpose to me.

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2 years

Voila, one cold frame done! Basically a builder now! 😂

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9 months

It’s officially my last year in my 30’s and I’ve spent my birthday afternoon in the garden centre, exactly where I want to be 😂

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2 years

Little update for you all, I have three customers now 😍

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2 years

Just been declined wine because I don’t have any ID. The manager even declined me after the assistant did. I’m 38 this year. This is bitter sweet, yay I look young but nay I have no FUCKING WINE NOW! 😂

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3 years

The banana is going 🍌’s 🙈

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2 years

I rarely talk about this but today I felt like opening up.... it’s all part of the healing ;❤️ @MaternityAction @PregnantScrewed

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2 years

This is the life right? 🍷

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2 years

Happy #ValentinesDay2022 to my lovely twitter friends ❤️

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4 years

At the start of the year I set myself the challenge of growing my own Xmas veg. The potatoes were ready too early, the red cabbage and swede got attacked by cabbage whites, this is all that made it to the final stretch! Taking ugly veg to a whole new level! WTF HAPPENED 😂😂😂

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1 year

I’ll be sad when this view is gone soon, this is a corn field next to our house, but it’s been sold off to developers 😭

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1 year

Worth getting up at 6am for this 🌅

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2 years

I can’t believe my little story got so much attention! You’re all amazing xxx

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3 years

When you love gardening but realise you’re actually a bit shit 😂🙈

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2 years

Guys, for anyone who’s new to my profile and just do you know, it is never EVER ok to send unsolicited DICK PICS! You will be blocked and reported! Can’t believe I have to say this!

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4 months

I actually love winter gardening, there is so much possibility and hope! It’s very cold today but I’m out pruning roses and tying in clematis

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3 years

My dad built me a roofed compost bin today for my allotment this morning whilst I watched 😂 built from old pallets so cost nothing. Got the roof idea from the legend that is @charlesdowding I’m going to put some roofing felt on to stop the rain getting in. 🥰

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Ain’t she a beaut? 😍😍😍😍🐝

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Fancied a change, it was supposed to be pink but we are gonna roll with the rose gold for the mo 😂

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4 years

We just found ourselves a little pick your own 🍓 farm that is open!

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I’m losing the will to live, what on earth can I do when I’m not gardening????? I’ve never been so bored

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3 years

I’m thinking of starting a YouTube channel. Tell me what gardening/eco content you would like to see?

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3 years

Omg proud squash mama alert!!!

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It’s taken a year but I finally got to see my vanilla fraise flowering !

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3 years

So pleased with my second home made wreath, made for my very special mother in law as a gift. All foraged apart from the orange slices I dried. I went for a bit of ivy this time, with a pretty bow I repurposed from last years ribbon.

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3 years

Yesterday I was feeling sooooo rubbish that I though I would just do something for me! So I waved my hair, and did my make up, I even put some lippy on, and I went no where! Haha! But, it made me feel better! It was a little bit of self care. So, the …

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4 years

I have just spent my weekly budget on bulbs, the kids can survive on cereal and beans on toast right? 😏🙊

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My very first time pruning a wisteria was this year, now it’s flowering my customer said whatever you did worked cos it’s never looked like this. This is one of those very proud moments 🩷

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4 years

Wow! Could I be any cooler? 🤔😂🤓

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1 year

It’s incredibly frustrating to be undercut by “gardeners” who only offer cheap labour with no technical knowledge. I either reduce my hourly rate or I can’t compete. It’s like I’m fighting a losing battle

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1 year

⭐️ BIG NEWS! ⭐️ #gardeningtwitter

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2 years

5K run done. Now just have to try and do this every day and I can eat all the donuts my heart desires 😏

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3 years

On a lighter note, I let this ragwort grow so I could help feed the cinnabar caterpillars and they’ve arrived! 🐛

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2 years

Happy new year to my gorgeous twitter fam! Thank you for being amazing, picking me up when I am down and having lots of laughs at my rude veg. May 2022 bring more swearing, plant innuendos and donuts 😍 happy new year crew! Love you all 😘

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4 years

We finally got some flour yesterday so my daughter and I had a go at making hot cross buns! I am pretty damn proud of them actually! ☺️ 🐣

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3 years

Out out...

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Teeny tiny eryngiums! Hopefully soon they’ll turn blue 🥰

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3 years

Summer evenings on the plot 💚

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4 years

Today’s been a shitty day so I’ve bought myself a whole vanilla cheese cake and a bottle of prosecco 😂

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2 years

Made a little bird box at college today! How very exciting 😍 🐦

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1 year

Seed sorting has made me realise I probably don’t need anymore seeds… however.. 😏 😂

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2 years

That’s a wrap for the onions this season 😍 #gardeningtwitter

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I started swimming a few weeks ago and on Thursday I managed to swim nearly half a mile non stop. I’m pretty damn pleased with that ☺️ 🏊‍♀️

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There’s something so beautiful and serene about flowers blooming in a church yard. Spring is coming!

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2 years

Garlic’s drying! Really pleased with my haul!

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3 years

Allotment days are the best days! 😍

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3 years

Happy Friday!!! I’ve been bitten by a horse fly twice today and got my strimmer stuck in some mesh. Hope you’re all having a great day!!!!

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2 years

Just gained another customer today, I can’t believe I get to do what I love as a job, how lucky am I? 😍

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4 years

I just made a sign for my shed door 🥰what do you think?

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Soooooo, I did a thing! Got a freaking piercing 😎✌️at 37 🙈

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We are having the best time @RHSWisley 😂 girls on tour!

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Just a windy day on the plot trying to sort out this mess ready for the new polytunnel!

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3 years

Home made mini bramley apple and blackcurrant (from my plant) fruit pies 🙃 sometimes things I do don’t go completely wrong 😂

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3 years

Blight, you absolute bastard!!!! 😡

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Definitely didn’t just buy more seeds...... 😬🤪

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