How does your garden grow?

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WRITER said:
should i buy plants or should i plant seeds?
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You could do both.

You could purchase some little plant pots and plant seeds of herbs - mint, rosemary etc and flowers - for sun loving flowers I think the best ones are marigolds or petunias and for shady areas I think caladiums or begonias for the balcony (you can search online for flowers too, whatever you want to grow in them)

And buy flowers fo the main room, to brighten it up - I do, it adds so much colour and warmth I buy lilies that are still in their bud plus they smell GORGEOUS :D

Your choice :D

But I'm pretty sure the avid gardeners will have better advice for you :p
 
glo said:

Do you not have this garden anymore, sister harb?
Have you moved house since then? I never got to visit your little garden cottage! imsad
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Don´t worry my little cottage is there and I visit that place sometimes. Garden is like wild jungle with its very old trees and bushes and flowers like jasmines and roses, some old lilys.

You are welcome. :statisfie
 
sister harb said:
Don´t worry my little cottage is there and I visit that place sometimes. Garden is like wild jungle with its very old trees and bushes and flowers like jasmines and roses, some old lilys.

You are welcome.
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May I come, please? :-[



​Pretty please :D
 
Qurratul Ayn said:
May I come, please? :-[



​Pretty please :D
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You are welcome too. May I make you both flower wreath by wild flowers there are...

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Mines used to grow hydroponically... but that was another lifetime ago :D

Scimi
 
I live in the middle east. the weather here is really hot. and there is no rain in summertime.

i love gardening but never had a proper garden. i love flowers more than vegetable plants. we never had proper space for a garden but once we had a little space in the yard and my mother planted different stuff. she loves vegetables and fruits more than flowers so planted lots of those. we had eggplant plant and a small berry tree. we also had a tomatoe plant that grew by it self.

i will see whether i can still grow from seeds. i hate throwing seeds away because i feel that is such a waste. of course i have nothing to do with them so they end up in the garbage, but i wish i could plant them outside where there is soil but no plants.

i'll research the plants whose seeds i have to see whether they grow in this time and climate.
 
WRITER said:
I live in the middle east. the weather here is really hot. and there is no rain in summertime.
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You should be able grow tomatoes, eggplants, peppers etc in that kind of climate. They don't take too much space.
Or try melons (it is rarely warm enough here in the UK to grow those). They will need regular watering though.
 
Help! My flowers died overnight :(


They were fine yesterday. You can see from the red one how weird they've gone. Any ideas, Glo, anyone?


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I once tried to grow tomatoes but they never appear :( Just a wild plant appear and my dad made fun of me :hmm: But i have had lovely roses.Once my little engineer hit them and they all got dried and then,i forgot to water them and they destroyed.I give up gardening since then imsad

Looking back is sad :cry:

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Snowflake said:
Help! My flowers died overnight :(


They were fine yesterday. You can see from the red one how weird they've gone. Any ideas, Glo, anyone?
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they look like they may have died of frost.
 
WRITER said:
I live in the middle east. the weather here is really hot. and there is no rain in summertime.
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One of the most drought and heat tolerant vegetables is okra. We like it fried or stewed with tomatoes and onion. You can't go wrong with tomatoes and a few plants in a large pot should be sufficient. A few plants of squash or zucchini would be nice as would cucumbers and bell peppers.

Allah (swt) has blessed us with a nice sized (12m X 33m) garden. We presently have growing: asparagus, potatoe, tomato, pepper, lima bean, cowpeas, green beans, okra, cantelope, watermelon, cucumber, squash, sweet corn, sunflower (for birds), and apple gourds (for decoration). The sweet corn is a special breeding project as I am trying to develop my own varieties, some that have a red or purple kernels in addition to the normal yellow.

Last weekend I finally connected the drip irrigation system, but it needs some modifications. Normally, we would irrigate by running water down the middles, but it used a LOT of water because our soil has a lot of clay that contracts and forms deep cracks when it dries. The cracks are so deep, I think we have been watering somebody's garden in China.
 
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Snowflake said:
Help! My flowers died overnight

They were fine yesterday. You can see from the red one how weird they've gone. Any ideas, Glo, anyone?
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I am no expert on flowers as vegetables are more 'my cup of tea' (can't eat flowers). I suggest that your flowers are probably fine as the foliage looks quite healthy. Flowers go through natural process of developing bud, fresh bloom or flower, dried bloom, seed pod development. It seems some of your flowers have progressed into the dried bloom stage and the petals will soon fall of leaving the seed pod to develop and produce seed. The good thing is that you probably have new buds that will bloom soon.
 
With silver bells, a cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row. Sorry, I couldn't resist. My "garden" consists only of bushes around the patio.
 
Snowflake said:
Help! My flowers died overnight :(


They were fine yesterday. You can see from the red one how weird they've gone. Any ideas, Glo, anyone?
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First off, I am no garden expert and this is no Ask-glo thread! ;D
Secondly, yes I do go to bed occasionally.

But this doesn't look like frost damage to me. (And even in the most northerly part of the UK we haven't had any frost for some weeks now, so it wouldn;t belikely anyway)
I agree with Mustafa. These flowers are just naturally dying off.
With reagrds to your comment that they were fine yesterday, Petunias are very pretty, but the flowers are also quite large and the get floppy in heavy rain and wind (which we have had!) quite quickly.

I suggest gently picking off the limp and dead looking flowers - which is supposed to encourage further buds. Overall the plants are looking nice and healthy.

Lovely looking hanging basket, BTW! :statisfie
 

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