LOOOL!
Same here!! hahahaa

lol



Glo, mashallah ur garden is so amazing, and whats best is how u make pots wit tires, and not waste hose water instead u use rain water! Thats so amazing mashallah!
Oh btw ur garden is huge compared to ours. lol
its still dead at the moment.
But i will take pictures of it inshallah when its alive....

^ Thanks, truemuslim.
My husband is pretty handy when it comes to making stuff.
And we both feel quite strongly about environmental issues and the environment.
So reusing and recycling comes quite naturally to us.

Looking forward to your garden pics.

^ mashallah thats great how u both care!
May allah bless u .

greetings Glo,

I fancy doing a bit of gardening myself now. The only problem is that whatever I plant soon dies. I even tried growing some basil and watercress on my windowsill. Some weedy looking things came up but nothing like the pics on the seed packet. I thought it would grow some more but I think that was as much as it was going to go cuz soon it started dying. I never got to make that tomato and basil pasta I was so looking forward to.

Tips please?

^I've never had much success with basil either, sis. And I have never tried growing watercress.
So no gardening tips from me, I'm afraid ...

I love gardening! I love green, and flowers!

My garden is huge!, However i can't make a start to it Everytime i say next spring lool!

Peace, Glo, I really liked your pictures. I don't have much in the way of vegetables to show right now as our spring has been too cool and wet. Just recently I transplanted tomatoes and sweet peppers and my wife planted some herbs. Today, she and I planted 16m of 3 different beans - Christmas Speckled large pole lima, Persian small pole lima and Dixie Speckled Butterpea bush-type. It rained some this evening, but we may be able to plant more tomorrow evening.

We live in an area where the soil is a heavy clay that is very difficult to work. We had 3 dump trucks full of sandy soil brought in that we spread on our garden spot. The soil is now much easier to till. God willing I will post some pictures soon.

Anything i try to plant i accidently mow it the next day...
lol
if its actually behind the lil garden thing i dont, but it dies .

Thank you, Mustafa.

Despite being at the end of May, it has been fairly cool here too ... and it shows. The tomatoes should be doing better by now.
The cucumbers, cougettes and sweetcorn are looking so scrawny that I haven't bothered posting pictures yet.

Last year was a terrible growing season with the spring cold and wet and the summer just wet!
It was a great year for the soft fruit - we still have some raspberries in the freezer. But the vegetables did not do well at all, the tomatoes caught blight and rotted away ...

God willing this year will be better.

16 metres? That must be longer than our entire garden!
Do you grow just for your own use, or do you have surplus?

peace

^ WOOW OMG LOOOL!!
Hehe yeh
Some animal robs our tomatos! Lol
seriously
our tomatoes, cucumber (which always turns out DELICIOUS!!), green pepper, everything!

Cleaning up the garden means that sooner or later we have a bonfire in the fire pit. (It usually creates havoc with the lawn too ... but, hey!)

Today we burnt old dry branches and twigs, which had been lying around since we cut back the garden in the autumn (that's fall to some of you foreigners )





Nice, eh?!
No marshmallows this time though ...

lool, last time i tried that the neighbours called on us.

We where given a warning, and if it was repeated agian we would of been fined!

Last year my wife put up vegetables in the freezer and canned the green beans. Masha'Allah we were able to eat vegetables (green beans, lima beans, cowpeas, squash, corn, okra) from the garden all winter. Between yesterday and today, we planted 12 rows X 16m. God willing, my wife, MuslimahBarb, will send some pictures tomorrow, but there is not much to see right now.

I was surprised when you told me this insect was in the wasp family. This looks like one of the main pests on cotton from the moth family.

aww lol no worries.. I'll try to grow something this year inshaAllah. Btw, my lawn is always yellowish. I think the quality of soil is poor; I heard this place used to be a car scrap yard before. Does that mean planting anything will be futile?

Sounds like fruit-flies to me.. they look like small wasps.