How does your garden grow?

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glo said:
I believe you call it zucchini in the US, Mustafa (as indeed we do in Germany).

And yes, it is related to squashes, marrows and pumpkins.
You can tell by the flower and the leaves, can't you?
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Yes, we have grown zucchini before, but I prefer the flavor of plain old yellow squash. We planted seed that I saved from a hybrid squash shaped like a lemon. I noticed that one plant has saucer type fruit that was apparently from an outcross last year. As a plant breeder, I thought that I could select for a new type of squash that was not hybrid because with hybrids you have to buy new seed each year.
 
I have never really tried growing squashes, Mustafa.
I wonder if they need a little more warmth than the British climate can guarantee them.

Personally, I love butternut squashes. Have you grown them?

I like the idea of using the seed of one fruit in the next growing season.
Surely that's what people used to do in the past.
 
Yes, we have Butternut squash growing as well as Acorn and Delicata winter squashes. I too like Butternut squash split and baked with cinnamon and butter. It tastes like sweet potatoes that you probably don't have in England. Actually, we have 2 different varieties of sweet potato growing in our garden. Barbara and I really enjoy gardening, last evening we picked 8 pounds of green beans and 11 pounds of squash the day before that. Allah's blessings are surely immense.
 
I had a peep, Tania, and noticed Dawud_uk's name.
Will you please give my regards to him and his family. That would be very nice! :)

Thank you
 
We have had a lot of rain in the last coupld of weeks ... and everything in the garden is growing beautifully!

Here are a few pictures I took today:

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glo said:
I had a peep, Tania, and noticed Dawud_uk's name.
Will you please give my regards to him and his family. That would be very nice! :)

Thank you
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I sent him :)
You will have many tomatoes and cucumbers :) I have only one tomato plant without flowers :hmm:
 
Having been away for a week, two of our courgettes have grown into enormous marrows! :D

We will have one this evening - stuffed with minced beef.
The other one I gave to our neighbours.
 
Our garden has done about all it could do.

Lima beans did pretty well with the Persian climbing bean yielding the best and the Thorogreen bush bean having the best flavor.

Green beans that you snap the pod into 3cm segments did well with the Contenders having the best yield.

Cucumbers did OK, but I need to provide better support for the vines to climb on.

Cowpeas did not yield much at all. I think the soil amendments and watering contributed to excessive plant growth. The Holstein yielded well last year.

Okra yielded well after only growing stalk for a long time. The Louisiana Short and Blondie were the best yielders.

Sweet corn (Kandy Korn hybrid) yielded well, but some ears seemed to be diseased. I left the F2 plants unharvested that were planted from last year's seed. I am trying to select an open pollinated type that I can save seed indefinitely.

Squash yielded very well with Gentry and Horn of Plenty hybrids out performing the Lemon from saved seed.

Cantelopes did very well with Athena being the best tasting.

Tomatoes, watermelons, sweet potatoes and peanuts have not been harvested yet.

There is nothing like eating vegetables and fruit from your own garden. Allah is so generous to us in our bountiful sustenance. With Ramadan approaching we will better appreciate that there are many people in this world who are not so fortunate in food supply.
 
That sounds wonderful!
You seem to have a short growing season, Mustafa.

Providing the weather remains fairly warm we still have another month or so of growing and ripening.
The tomatoes and cucumbers have only really just started in the last fortnight or so.
The lettuce (second batch of sowing) and cabbages are still growing.
 
No, Glo, we actually have a long growing season as it stays quite warm through October. Most of the plants have matured though and aren't producing much any more.
 
Given your location I did expect your growing season to be longer than ours, Mustafa.

Our main growing season is May to late September - although there are of course plants which will grow and produce outside that time span.
 
Another thing is that we received very little rain in June and July that curtailed plant growth. For the past couple of weeks, we have been getting a lot of rain and there is a hurricane expected to bring even more. We have gotten more regrowth lately.

Our soil is a heavy clay and when it is dry the soil shrinks and forms cracks. There are times when I could shove my fist down the cracks in our lawn. We had quit furrow watering the garden because the cracks consumed too much water. I have gotten a drip irrigation system, but have yet to install it. God willing, I will have it installed before next growing season.
 
Oh a garden thread :D, how come I miss it??:?

well, Our garden is not that great due to our boiling sun, so the majority of the trees are palms and palms and palms..........

btw glo it looks like you are a super professional in gardening, I might need your experiment in the future

Okay our garden is divded, one outside and the other is inside

btw, I took those pictures on a rainy day

this is from the out side with a part of our neighbor's garden :D

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this inside the courtyard

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Our Yammy dates.......
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the inner trees

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I have seen those fruit (Yammies?) in our local Muslim shop.
How do you eat them, SAYA? Do they need cooking?
I'd love to try them.

Funny how they are hanging is those little net bags. Are they to protect them from birds or other animals?
 
glo said:
I have seen those fruit (Yammies?) in our local Muslim shop.
How do you eat them, SAYA? Do they need cooking?
I'd love to try them.

Funny how they are hanging is those little net bags. Are they to protect them from birds or other animals?
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Yeah they for protection from birds and worms
oh you dont need to cook them, its sweet fruit you can eat them directly after washing them
you have to try them but try to find some sweet kinds, because there are some not that sweet to eat


Güven said:
OOh Ive Eat Those , ....And I didnt Like Them
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Oh !!! How come !?!:?
someone eat dates and dont like them, brother you must eat those kind that I told glo about, our dates are verrrrrry sweet, I wish I can send each LI member a bag of date.......it is the season of growing them:)
 
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SAYA said:
Yeah they for protection from birds and worms
oh you dont need to cook them, its sweet fruit you can eat them directly after washing them
you have to try them but try to find some sweet kinds, because there are some not that sweet to eat
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ohh Thats Why I didnt Like Them +o(
 

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