How does your garden grow?

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greenhill said:
I found another picture that I could upload before taking some photos tomorrow :D:peace:
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Hi Greenhill, in Malaysia, it is like the garden of paradise you should be able to grow anything there, I believe you grow sugar canes just like you do tapioca, you cut it at the node and allow it to dry out before you plant it, plant it on a slant.
 
Simple_Person said:
If you mix dirt/soil with the leaves that are still fresh, will they become part of the soil faster? Because now i have just put them on top en slowly the layer of leaves and skins that touches the soil is getting broken down.
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I could say yes. Just on the top of the soil they dry but when mix them with soil they will molder better. Remember that a lot of leaves and grass under the plants can also be a good place to grow for harmfull fungus and increase the risk of some diseases and pests.
 
sister herb said:
I could say yes. Just on the top of the soil they dry but when mix them with soil they will molder better. Remember that a lot of leaves and grass under the plants can also be a good place to grow for harmfull fungus and increase the risk of some diseases and pests.
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I am a person that takes certainty above uncertainty, so better keep it on top of the soil (the soil that i am using for compost). The soil that is being used by plants i have started to cover with mulch as it was advised by many on youtube, for preventing the soil to dry quicker. Having done that i indeed have noticed that the soil becomes less dry, thus less watering and also do not have the weed problem.

About the tomatoes i guess you also have like me still many tomatoes being green (maybe cloudy and rainy weather being partly the problem). I am gonna put the tomatoes that are still on the branch in a plastic bag so the ethylene gas stays with the tomatoes for it to ripen even though they are still small for their size. Small containers (mistake i made) is also to be blamed for it. On the 3rd floor is also very windy.
 
colinberry1 said:
Hi Greenhill, in Malaysia, it is like the garden of paradise you should be able to grow anything there, I believe you grow sugar canes just like you do tapioca, you cut it at the node and allow it to dry out before you plant it, plant it on a slant.
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Yes, we should be able to grow anything here (that will grow in the tropics). I'd love to try growing the Giant Sequoia trees here! That would simply be awesome!

There is a saying about having green fingers .... I don't know, but I have had very little luck with anything that grows ... only thing I successfully had was a cactus! Ha ha Everything else did not do to well with me. Especially from seed.

I have not been able to upload any more pics, I don't know why?

Thank you for your comment.


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I keep my green tomatoes in open boxes to get enough air but plastic bag can work too. Some say they should to be in the dark, others say in the light but as tomatoes turn to red in any ways, I think it´s quite same. Also some prefer to keep ripe apples with tomatoes to increse ethylene gas. I have tried it few times but I haven´t seen much change as with or without apples.
 
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I have just eaten a "Super sweet 100" cherry tomato that was ripened. Ma'sha'Allah, such a unique flavor. I have never eaten such a tomato. It was neither acidic, neither sweet. Although small, but i blame the 10 liter bucket (less space), however it was delicious. It has earned it's place next year in'sha'Allah.

I also ate one of 3 money makers tomatoes that i kept in a plastic bag to ripen, it was i guess over ripened. However also very unique taste. The taste had a similar taste as if i ate those tomatoes back home that my mother were to use for using them as tomato puree. I can still taste the after-taste in my mouth. I am kind of curious what next year will bring if we in'sha'Allah are still alive. The preparations what i must do better, should give me a huge harvest compared to what i have now in'sha'Allah.

@sister herb, that marmade tomato, gonna look beautiful. I guess you choose that variety as it has a lot of flesh. Have you planted that variety before?
 
Yes, at the last year I had same variety (Marmande). Very "fleshy" tomato and it grows big, like 2 or 3 times bigger than normal tomato.

Food memories may last long; few years back, when my father ate one of my own tomato, he said it tasted just like those ones what his mother had grown at his childhood home´s garden - 80 years ago. :D
 
sister herb said:
Yes, at the last year I had same variety (Marmande). Very "fleshy" tomato and it grows big, like 2 or 3 times bigger than normal tomato.

Food memories may last long; few years back, when my father ate one of my own tomato, he said it tasted just like those ones what his mother had grown at his childhood home´s garden - 80 years ago. :D
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What taste had the Marmande? Acidic? Sweet? In between?..
 
Of my mind it has slightly sour flavor, with some sweetness. But I think it´s personal how we taste.

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Here is one of the biggest marmandes, I took it indoors at yesterday:

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A handful of tomato. Hopely it will ripe too.
 
@sister herb, oke i THINK i seem to understand the process between growing your own fruits/vegetables compared to what you buy in the store and why the taste is so different.

Although i know very little about the phases of the fruits for example the tomato, just to sketch a clear picture. Do correct me where i am wrong please.

Let's say the Tomato has 5 phases.

Phase 1: Flower
Phase 2: growing
Phase 3: full grown
Phase 4: ripening
Phase 5: Ripened

At the store (or before i should say), the tomato is harvested at phase 3 (full grown ..but still green). This gives farms/stores the time to transport the tomato BEFORE it is ripened. So when it has arrived at the store by using external ethylene (ie organic way for example: already ripened tomato, banana, apple or non-organic way: the gas it self) the tomato is turned red. However between phase 3 and phase 5 if the tomato fruit is still on the plant it still gets nutritious (ie flavor, texture, smell).

Changing color green to red, doesn't give you the flavor, rather phase 4/phase 5 when it is getting its red color or whatever other color, is also getting it's taste off course WHEN IT IS STILL on the plant and not harvested.

Again do correct me where i am wrong or add to it what i have left out or forgot. This knowledge is rather crucial for me to know to harvest better fruits and the stages of them. As i also recent with potatoes did not know that if the plant grows, add more soil to it, as like the tomato plant new roots come out of the stem thus with potato plant resulting with new potatoes. I thought i had to wait until the potatoes were beginning to become visible above the soil. Because of that many plants turned light-greenish. Experimented with another plant and did the right way. The leaves are very green and healthy. That way i can keep it until October for it to harvest and thus have even much larger potatoes.
 
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I am sure that tomatoes will be much more tasty if they can ripe natural way with their plants. Farms and stores just have to harvest them when they are still half-ripe that they survive their long transport to the stores. In home gardens it´s far better let them ripe outdoors of course. In some cases I have to harvest them when they are still green; if I see some sings of diseases on the leaves or when temperatures turn too low. Tomato needs about +20 to 24 C to ripe (now here is only +15 C). Also about difference; in farms they may use much more fertilizers to make plants to grow faster. In here we love new potatoes and stores try to get them earlier and earlier. That means that farmers use more fertilizers what helps potatoes to grow fast but it also makes potatoes tasteless.

It´s ok to let potatoes to grow as long it´s possible. You will get more and bigger potatoes. And no no for green color with potatoes. It then means they have solanine which is toxic chemical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine
 
sister herb said:
I am sure that tomatoes will be much more tasty if they can ripe natural way with their plants. Farms and stores just have to harvest them when they are still half-ripe that they survive their long transport to the stores. In home gardens it´s far better let them ripe outdoors of course. In some cases I have to harvest them when they are still green; if I see some sings of diseases on the leaves or when temperatures turn too low. Tomato needs about +20 to 24 C to ripe (now here is only +15 C). Also about difference; in farms they may use much more fertilizers to make plants to grow faster. In here we love new potatoes and stores try to get them earlier and earlier. That means that farmers use more fertilizers what helps potatoes to grow fast but it also makes potatoes tasteless.

It´s ok to let potatoes to grow as long it´s possible. You will get more and bigger potatoes. And no no for green color with potatoes. It then means they have solanine which is toxic chemical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine
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Sub'han'Allah this again proofs this point of being patient about things. The faster and the more in haste you are, the more damage you do to yourself. But although hungry, but being patient, is better for you.

"And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient," Qur'an 2:155
 
'Abd-al Latif said:
BarakAllahu feek for these. Can you recommend any literature as well?
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Well i haven't read any books yet, so i cannot really recommend any. However i strongly recommend you first google and look on youtube. As people already share their experience and show you as if you as a student looking over the shoulder of a master. When you do buy a book, you can better relate to what is being said as you already have seen it with your own eyes when watching a youtube video.
 
I have many good books but they all are published by Finnish language only. I don´t think they would be very helpful to you.

EDIT: This one I have by English:

Practical gardening - editor: Peter McHoy

Quite good book of my mind, a lot of pictures and clear advices with images.

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I had at first a lot of bell peppers growing (california wonder), but i THINK because they were in such a small flower pot, many turned yellow and died. At the end 3 survived. I gave the biggest to the neighbor, 1 by accident broke off, that i let it ripen not being on the branch and one i let it ripen on the branch.

The one that i did not let it ripen on the branch, after some time began to look old and you could see wrinkels. When i decided to taste it, it had rather a bitter taste as part of it was still green.

The other one i harvest it today. Although small because of the flower pot it was in, the taste..i have never tasted such a pepper. Bright red, VERY crunchy, not a lot of water or to less. It was not sweet, but also not bitter. The after taste it was as if i was eating a nectarine. If somebody would have given me such peppers as "fruit" to eat..i wouldn't complain at all. Ma'sha'Allah such a unique and tasteful flavor. Even now i am still having the taste in my mouth, which is already very unique that i almost never have.

I am now very curious about the strawberries..although the flowers are visible, i am not sure if i will taste even one of them, as here in the west we don't have a warm summer this summer.
 
Here is my sweet paprika:

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Few fruits changed almost black and then to red, most of them are still green.
 

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