How does your garden grow?

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I love gardening! I love green, and flowers!

My garden is huge!, However i can't make a start to it:( Everytime i say next spring lool!
 
Peace, Glo, I really liked your pictures. I don't have much in the way of vegetables to show right now as our spring has been too cool and wet. Just recently I transplanted tomatoes and sweet peppers and my wife planted some herbs. Today, she and I planted 16m of 3 different beans - Christmas Speckled large pole lima, Persian small pole lima and Dixie Speckled Butterpea bush-type. It rained some this evening, but we may be able to plant more tomorrow evening.

We live in an area where the soil is a heavy clay that is very difficult to work. We had 3 dump trucks full of sandy soil brought in that we spread on our garden spot. The soil is now much easier to till. God willing I will post some pictures soon.
 
Anything i try to plant i accidently mow it the next day...:(
lol
if its actually behind the lil garden thing i dont, but it dies .
 
MustafaMc said:
Peace, Glo, I really liked your pictures. I don't have much in the way of vegetables to show right now as our spring has been too cool and wet. Just recently I transplanted tomatoes and sweet peppers and my wife planted some herbs. Today, she and I planted 16m of 3 different beans - Christmas Speckled large pole lima, Persian small pole lima and Dixie Speckled Butterpea bush-type. It rained some this evening, but we may be able to plant more tomorrow evening.

We live in an area where the soil is a heavy clay that is very difficult to work. We had 3 dump trucks full of sandy soil brought in that we spread on our garden spot. The soil is now much easier to till. God willing I will post some pictures soon.
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Thank you, Mustafa.

Despite being at the end of May, it has been fairly cool here too ... and it shows. The tomatoes should be doing better by now.
The cucumbers, cougettes and sweetcorn are looking so scrawny that I haven't bothered posting pictures yet.

Last year was a terrible growing season with the spring cold and wet and the summer just wet!
It was a great year for the soft fruit - we still have some raspberries in the freezer. But the vegetables did not do well at all, the tomatoes caught blight and rotted away ...

God willing this year will be better. :)

16 metres? That must be longer than our entire garden!
Do you grow just for your own use, or do you have surplus?

peace
 
^ WOOW OMG LOOOL!!
Hehe yeh
Some animal robs our tomatos! Lol
seriously
our tomatoes, cucumber (which always turns out DELICIOUS!!), green pepper, everything!
 
Cleaning up the garden means that sooner or later we have a bonfire in the fire pit. (It usually creates havoc with the lawn too ... but, hey!)

Today we burnt old dry branches and twigs, which had been lying around since we cut back the garden in the autumn (that's fall to some of you foreigners :D)

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Nice, eh?!
No marshmallows this time though ... :mmokay:
 
glo said:
Cleaning up the garden means that sooner or later we have a bonfire in the fire pit. (It usually creates havoc with the lawn too ... but, hey!)

Today we burnt old dry branches and twigs, which had been lying around since we cut back the garden in the autumn (that's fall to some of you foreigners :D)

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Nice, eh?!
No marshmallows this time though ... :mmokay:
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lool, last time i tried that the neighbours called on us.

We where given a warning, and if it was repeated agian we would of been fined!
 
glo said:
16 metres? That must be longer than our entire garden!
Do you grow just for your own use, or do you have surplus?
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Last year my wife put up vegetables in the freezer and canned the green beans. Masha'Allah we were able to eat vegetables (green beans, lima beans, cowpeas, squash, corn, okra) from the garden all winter. Between yesterday and today, we planted 12 rows X 16m. God willing, my wife, MuslimahBarb, will send some pictures tomorrow, but there is not much to see right now.
 
Re: The dreaded gooseberry sawfly

glo said:
This little creature manages to find our gooseberry and currant bushes every year!



The larvae look just like caterpillars, but turn into wasp-like creatures rather than butterflies or moths.
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I was surprised when you told me this insect was in the wasp family. This looks like one of the main pests on cotton from the moth family.
 
glo said:
^I've never had much success with basil either, sis. And I have never tried growing watercress.
So no gardening tips from me, I'm afraid ... :-[
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aww lol no worries.. I'll try to grow something this year inshaAllah. Btw, my lawn is always yellowish. I think the quality of soil is poor; I heard this place used to be a car scrap yard before. Does that mean planting anything will be futile?

The larvae look just like caterpillars, but turn into wasp-like creatures rather than butterflies or moths.
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Sounds like fruit-flies to me.. they look like small wasps.
 
raOnar said:
lool, last time i tried that the neighbours called on us.

We where given a warning, and if it was repeated agian we would of been fined!
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People quite frequently have garden fires in our area. It's no different to barbeques, I suppose ...

Although we live in a highly populated area, our town is a conservation area (going back to Victorian times). Many houses still have their open fireplaces, and coal and wood fires are permitted.
Perhaps the same allpies to outdoor fires.
 
Here are a few photos of our garden:

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This is the wide view of the garden.



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The view of the length of it. You can also see the fence that Mustafa has been building around our property.


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The plants in the front raised beds is peppers. Pardon the grassiness of the end of back raised beds. I have worked on cleaning that up today so we can plant something such as cucumbers in it when Mustafa returns from his trip.


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Though they are still quite small the plants in the front raised beds is tomatoes, the plants in the raised bed behind it is strawberries that Mustafa planted earlier this year.

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These are our blackberry plants. Again excuse all the grass. That area is hard to get to to mow.


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A more close-up view of the blackberries.

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And finally, our Purple Martin house.

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^ That's a wonderful garden, Barbara!

I walked off the length and width of our garden to get a rough measure. From the back of the house to the end wall it is approximately 20 x 6 metres.

I'm amazed your blackberries are already ripening. Our's are only just in flower ... I wonder if it's a different variety?
 
Correction, Barbara ... our blackberries are only just budding and are not even in flower yet!

Out of interest, how do you deal with pests in your garden?
Do you use pesticides? Do you kill pests by other means?
Are there any Islamic rulings on this? (I recall reading threads here in LI on not killing God's creatures ...)
 
Tania said:
Its very difficult to build a bird house :?
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No, not really. The one in the picture was a kit that just snapped together, but I have built smaller houses for bluebirds. There are plans on the internet to give one ideas, but it does take a few tools and basic carpentery skills.
 
glo said:
Out of interest, how do you deal with pests in your gardenDo you use pesticides? Do you kill pests by other means??
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Well, I do most of the pest control. If there are relatively few insects, I just let them go, but if they start to build up significantly I will spray a pesticide from the local coop. I don't aim for a blemish-free garden, but neither do I let the little critters eat it all up.
Are there any Islamic rulings on this? (I recall reading threads here in LI on not killing God's creatures ...)
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I am not sure about this one, but I agree that it is wrong to kill just to be killing. I am sure that it is allowed to kill spiders, snakes, scorpions, mosquitos, etc.
 

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