How does your garden grow?

Post us some pictures of your house and yard, Yanal.
Then people can try to give you advice where best to plant.

Hi Saba Muslimah

You can grow herbs indoors, also (if you have a bit more space, tomatoes and chilli peppers). But all those plants will need window space with good sunshine - otherwise they won't thrive.

As for other indoor plants, I don't know so much about them.
But you can buy plants for almost any situation: cacti which don't need much watering, ivy which doesn't need much sunlight.

Here is a website which gives you information on most indoor plants A-Z

Today, after some heavy rainfall, I went out to do a bit of harvesting. Here is what I picked today:

Raspberries - garlic - strawberries



Some baby turnips and one (ridiculous!) carrot (We have somehow never managed to grow proper carrots ... )

format_quote Originally Posted by saba muslimah

Thank you so much aunty GLO

JazakALLAH for info...

yeah i knw sunlight is necessary for any plant... Wht about moneyplant? it can easily gorw in water.. but it teks lots of water daily i think..???

A money plant doesn't need much water at all. (I know, because we once had one in our office and everybody took it upon themselves to water it. It started to look poorly ... and the worse it looked the more we watered it! We nearly killed the poor thing! )

These attractive plants are great for smaller spaces and desktops. Also known as the Jade Plant or Friendship Tree they are extremely easy to care for and will thrive even in dark rooms like kitchens and offices.
Water sparingly in winter and regularly in summer and these succulent plants will reward you with their distinctive glossy foliage all year round.

Jade plants are succulents, like cacti. The plants store water in the leaves and stems, not in the soil like many other plants. For this reason, they like very little water.

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Good luck!

I have a lot of money plants at home and that is correct, they don´t like too much water.

I have kept some surplus plants to sell at tomorrow's fund-raiser event at our church.

Now we are into August, we have started harvesting.

Especially the courgettes are doing well.





The beans are doing well, too.





The tomatoes are taking their time ripening - we've had much rain, but not too much sun.





Looks like we are going to have a bumper crop of blackberries

And here a couple of pictures of some garden friends:

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I can finally somewhat contribute to this thread!

Okay, so. I'm excited. I am determined to make this lil' bit of land beautiful! This is what I have to work with. Sorry for the low quality, they're from my phone.






First of all, how do I get rid of the annoying little bits of patch less grass?

I was going to buy seeds the other day. I checked out the planting/growing months and worked out which ones I would buy. But then my mom said since it's my first time, I should use the pre planted plants (don't know what the actual word for them is yet?). That just seems like a cop out though... Or do lots of people do that?

What plants and flowers work best in a mid east environment?

Hmm can't think of anything else at the moment.. Any tips you all have in general would be great!

format_quote Originally Posted by crayon

First of all, how do I get rid of the annoying little bits of patch less grass?

I was going to buy seeds the other day. I checked out the planting/growing months and worked out which ones I would buy. But then my mom said since it's my first time, I should use the pre planted plants (don't know what the actual word for them is yet?). That just seems like a cop out though... Or do lots of people do that?

What plants and flowers work best in a mid east environment?

Hmm can't think of anything else at the moment.. Any tips you all have in general would be great!

I am not very good with the lawn either, crayon, but your lawn may need raking over and resowing in parts. Does it have weeds like clover or dandelions in it? Some people like them, but you may want to think about pulling them out.

The ground around the edges looks ideal for other plants, but it also looks quite dry.
Perhaps you should buy some good compost and mix it in to make the soil softer and more nutritious.

Buying 'ready plants' means you can make the garden look pretty quite quickly, rather than waiting for the next growing season and then waiting for the seeds to grow into decent sized plants.
You could always buy just a couple a ready plants, and then grow your own later ...

I am not sure what kind of plants do well in the middle east. What do your neighbours grow? (I think I can sport palms and Rhododendron, but don't know what the rest are)

format_quote Originally Posted by Scents of Jannah

^get some grass seeds and follow the instructions

Simple as that? Cool, will do inshaAllah! Thanks!

format_quote Originally Posted by glo

I am not very good with the lawn either, crayon, but your lawn may need raking over and resowing in parts. Does it have weeds like clover or dandelions in it? Some people like them, but you may want to think about pulling them out.

The ground around the edges looks ideal for other plants, but it also looks quite dry.
Perhaps you should buy some good compost and mix it in to make the soil softer and more nutritious.

Buying 'ready plants' means you can make the garden look pretty quite quickly, rather than waiting for the next growing season and then waiting for the seeds to grow into decent sized plants.
You could always buy just a couple a ready plants, and then grow your own later ...

I am not sure what kind of plants do well in the middle east. What do your neighbours grow? (I think I can sport palms and Rhododendron, but don't know what the rest are)

Okay, now I need some definitions:
Raking- Just as in like raking the leaves kind of raking? Or some specific gardening word kind of raking?
Resowing- Replanting the seeds?

It has some clovers I think, yeah. I tried looking for 4 leaved ones but didn't find any, sadly, lol. I guess I could get rid of them, ok.

Compost, okay, that's on my list inshaAllah. I think the main problem with the soil here is that it's more sand than it is soil; I know nothing about gardening but when I compare it to Syrian soil even I can tell the difference.

I guess that's a problem here as well, because the window for growing anything is really quite limited, since it's only the next couple of months that are slightly cool, the rest kill off any plant life (i assume).
And that's what I'm thinking of doing inshaAllah- get used to actually raising plants, then work on getting them to grow from little seedlings.

Those are actually our plants lol, but I think something is up with the fence, and they overflow everywhere. There are these wooden fence sort of things in them that I assume are to keep them upright, but they've gotten too heavy and fallen backwards- I tried fixing it the other day but it was much heavier than I anticipated- plus I kept getting surrounded by giant wasps, so I gave up. I'll try again though inshaAllah.

Thank you for your post, btw, really appreciate it!