How does your garden grow?

format_quote Originally Posted by glo

How is your garden doing, Barb?

Peace Glo

Thanks for asking about our garden. It is doing well alhamdulillah. We got it planted about a month ago. I would have been earlier but, we have gotten alot of rain this spring. We have 15 different varieties of tomatoes, sweet peppers and banana peppers, lima beans, green beans, cowpeas, cucumbers, summer and winter squash, cantelope, watermelon, sweet corn, peanuts, potatoes & okra. We also have herbs planted(basil & oregano) as well as garlic. We currently have some tomatoes on the plants that are about the size of grapes and have alot of blooms on the tomato plants. Our blackberry bushes are loaded with blackberries so I will be making jam soon, insha'Allah. We have already gotten to eat a few blackberries and they were quite tastey.

Thank you for sharing the photos of your garden. It is looking very nice.


Here is a photo that was taken last weekend of our garden.

I also wanted to share a photo of one of our floribunda roses.

Your garden looks fantatic!
I envy you your long growing season, Barbara.
Things are only just taking off here in this part of the world.

We have had a lot of rain in the last couple of weeks (which was much needed, as spring has been fairly dry so far)
Now it is really starting to get very sunny and warm, and the plants are loving it!

format_quote Originally Posted by glo

Your garden looks fantatic!
I envy you your long growing season, Barbara.
Things are only just taking off here in this part of the world.

We have had a lot of rain in the last couple of weeks (which was much needed, as spring has been fairly dry so far)
Now it is really starting to get very sunny and warm, and the plants are loving it!

Peace Glo

The mention of rain makes me think of some of the ayahs of one the surahs that Mustafa said this morning when we did our Fajr salat together. It is from Surat An-Naba(78) ayah 6 and especially ayats 14-16.

6-Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse

14-16 And sent dow from the rainy clouds abundant water, so that We my bring forth grain and plants, And gardens thick with foliage.

On the subject of rain, you can see in the photo that there is water standing in some of the rows. We have gotten so much rain this spring and our garden is benefiting from it, mashaAllah.

I especially appreciate this thread this year. i am not having the time to do any planting this year, so I will take advantage of enjoying your garden.

format_quote Originally Posted by Woodrow

I especially appreciate this thread this year. i am not having the time to do any planting this year, so I will take advantage of enjoying your garden.

You are welcome to share our garden with us, Woodrow.
Take a seat, put up your feet and have a cold lemonade.

^
I once played my daughter's Harvest Moon for an entire night!!
(She still tells me off for it to this day ...)

This is how plants have grown in the last month:

Peas:

24.April


7.May


21.May

Lettuce:

24.April


11.May


24.May

Our soft fruit are growing nicely, but are still a looong way from ripening.

Raspberries:




Gooseberries:




Strawberries:

format_quote Originally Posted by Alpha Jr

Wow! Thats call an addict! I only play time to time..

I bet you do that because your mum tells you not to play for too long!
(I didn't have anybody to tell me that ... )

After seeing these cool pics, I think I might just take up gardening InshaAllah..:smile:
But I detest Bugs:X.

^
You can't really avoid bugs in the garden, sister.

Just remember that they too are part of God's creation.
And from a gardener's perspective, some of them are very useful and beneficial!

format_quote Originally Posted by glo

^
You can't really avoid bugs in the garden, sister.

Just remember that they too are part of God's creation.
And from a gardener's perspective, some of them are very useful and beneficial!

Yeah I know. Some are quite cool. But I just have this weird thing, to run whenever I see one. Think It's from all the scary movie's I watched when I was younger.
and when you put it like that I feel like an idiot:X

A good healthy garden will have bugs. Bugs like good healthy food too. Stop and think the next time you see a bugless garden:

"What is wrong with those veggies if even bugs refuse to eat them?"

Some bugs, however, are a real nuisance!

In our Victorian garden surrounded by brick walls slugs and snails seem to live by the thousands. And they love our little seedlings!

But nature has been kind to us this spring. The last winter was colder and harsher than the winters we've had in previous years, and the numbers of slugs and snails are noticably reduced.
(I could almost feel sorry for them ... but not quite! )

We had the first of our own lettuce with our evening meal.
Knowing that we eat what we have grown with our own labour and God's will is always a great feeling!