How does your garden grow?

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My garden project is almost done: bigger space for herbs, vegetables and flowers, little wall around it (my mom has dog who loves to dig everywhere), tomorrow last seeds and seedlings... some more flowers to the pots.

Six different kind of mints this year (green mint, peppermint, spicy mint, catnip mint, grape mint and... chocolate mint), five different basils... totally 20 different herbs, carrots, radish, spinach, potatoes, pea, bean...
 
I would like to gardening because it is best for our environmental issue if we want clean our atmosphere or breath in clean air so increase number of plants.
 
sister harb said:
Six different kind of mints this year (green mint, peppermint, spicy mint, catnip mint, grape mint and... chocolate mint), five different basils... totally 20 different herbs, carrots, radish, spinach, potatoes, pea, bean...
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...so, you like variety? On Monday we planted our beans and cowpeas, but I haven't counted how many different varieties yet. In sha Allah, I will post pictures once it comes up.
 
Here are some pictures from our vegetable garden:

Apple blossoms

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Broad beans

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Potatoes

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Tomatoes

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Peas (under netting to keep the pigeons out!)

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The ground finally dried out enough for the farms to start plowing. The farm at the end of my street started tilling the other night. They were done by the time I woke up in the morning. Here is what a North Dakota farm looks like. Although many do plant small backyard gardens, the commercial farms are owned by big corporations and the workers spend just a few days a year at each one. They work farms all throughout the Central states.


I do not know what they plan to plant this year, but it is off to a late start and wont be enough growing time for most crops. I suspect it will be either soy beans or sunflowers. I hope it will be sunflowers if so I'll post some pictures after they bloom
 
MustafaMc said:
...so, you like variety? On Monday we planted our beans and cowpeas, but I haven't counted how many different varieties yet. In sha Allah, I will post pictures once it comes up.
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Not fair!
Not fair for MustafaMc to show off his plants!
Isn't your doctorate in botanical genetic engineering or something equally mind binding?
That's like having a rocket powered green thumb...or something.

(In truth I wish I could get him to help me figure out why my rhododendrons won't bloom)
 
MustafaMc said:
...so, you like variety? On Monday we planted our beans and cowpeas, but I haven't counted how many different varieties yet. In sha Allah, I will post pictures once it comes up.
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Salam alaykum

What is cowpea?

Is it by Latin as Vicia faba?
 
I'm so jealous of all of you!!!

I live in a high rise apartment building in a densely populated urban area. The closest thing I have to a garden is the bag of lettuce in my refrigerator :cry:.
 
GuestFellow said:
I actually thought of starting a garden business lol.
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Why not do it? Is it still a passion?

When I retire here in 6 years (God willing), I plan on moving west and starting a mushroom farm. I love cloning and cultivating gourmet mushrooms....it's a real passion and my favorite hobby (when time allows).
 
You're going to post some photos any second now that make me feel like the most incompetent gardener ever, aren't you?

(Truthfully, I'd love to see what you can do to enhance the growth and health of plants...especially if I don't try to grow the same species as well)
 
GodIsAll said:
You're going to post some photos any second now that make me feel like the most incompetent gardener ever, aren't you?
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Well, no, it's not a competition. We have had a wet spring and only planted on Monday. This picture was taken after I finished hipping the rows and immediately before planting. The beans and peas were starting to come up today, but I haven't taken pictures of the seedlings yet.
 
This snapshot is the garden plan. The long rows have been planted and have begun to emerge.
 
MustafaMc said:
Well, no, it's not a competition. We have had a wet spring and only planted on Monday. This picture was taken after I finished hipping the rows and immediately before planting. The beans and peas were starting to come up today, but I haven't taken pictures of the seedlings yet.
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Mustafa's wife assures me that no chicken was harmed in the tilling of this field! LOL
 
sister harb said:
Salam alaykum

What is cowpea?

Is it by Latin as Vicia faba?
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Wa alaikum assalam, no, Vicia faba is the broad bean or fava bean that glo is growing. The cowpea is also known as field peas that are very different from what we know as English or sweet peas. The cowpea originated in Africa and I believe was brought to the USA by slaves. This website is where I have gotten several of the varieties that we grow. I love to try different kinds to see what works best for me in southern USA where it is hot and humid in the summer. http://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/cowpeas/
 

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