How does your garden grow?

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Nice pictures, glo. Glad you hens are coming of age. We have 4 hens setting on eggs now that I hope will hatch out soon. Our Blue Laced Red Wynadottes chicks are growing well and sure are getting pretty. In shaa Allah, I will post some pictures soon.

I had planted several tomato and pepper varieties into flats and they are starting to grow pretty good now, as God has willed.
 
MustafaMc said:
Nice pictures, glo. Glad you hens are coming of age. We have 4 hens setting on eggs now that I hope will hatch out soon. Our Blue Laced Red Wynadottes chicks are growing well and sure are getting pretty. In shaa Allah, I will post some pictures soon.

I had planted several tomato and pepper varieties into flats and they are starting to grow pretty good now, as God has willed.
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Our winter has been long and cold this year, Mustafa, and we are behind with starting our growing season.

Broad beans are growing now and Will (hubby) has started off tomatoes, lettuces and summer cabbages.
Potatoes are in the ground and the beds are prepared for sowing.
We are just waiting for it to get a TINY bot warmer.

As always, I envy you your extended growing season. :)
 
First crocuses are finally open. Still snow on the ground - not much.

I got before seeds of the white strawberries from UK and they started to germinate some days ago (inside of course as ground is still on ice).
 
Latest pictures of our latest chicken additions. The ones with grayish-blue feather trim are Blue Laced Red Wyandotte and the white (called splash) and black trimmed ones differ from the BLRW only in a single color gene.
 
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I haven't heard of growing strawberries from seed before.
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Salam alaykum

From where you think that the strawberries comes from if not from seeds? It is faster to buy seedlings but someone has grown them too - from seeds.

;D

Growing them from seeds is interesting hobby. It may takes years to get berries. :exhausted Now I have something to wait. My white strawberries.

Strawberries are also by yellow, green and blue. Blue ones I refuse to grow ever.

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Unfortunately they are real not by photoshop makes pic. Genetic has mixed with the genes of the arctic flounder fish.

^o)

I like to eat berry as berry and fish as fish.
 
sister harb said:
First crocuses are finally open. Still snow on the ground - not much.
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Out crocuses have gone now, but the daffodils are out.
Interesting to see how spring is making it's way northwards. :)

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One day I'd love to have my own garden. I'd want these (And POSSIBLY a chicken coop...)

Apple tree
Orange tree
Peach tree
Cherry tree


strawberries
blueberries


Vegetables
tomatoes
watermelon
squash
pumpkins
potatoes...regular and sweet
peas-black eyed peas and green
onions
okra
lettuce
eggplant
cucumber
cauliflower
carrot
cabbage
broccoli
oh and maybe corn :)
 
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Article published over year ago, but good to know anyways...

Gardening to help the fight blues


DOCTORS in the UK are to swap pills for the potting shed under plans to prescribe gardening as a way to help patients beat depression.
Time spent planting, pruning and propagating can be more powerful than a dose of expensive drugs, according to Sir Richard Thompson, president of the Royal College of Physicians.
He claims the Government's health reforms will give GPs more choice in how to treat patients, and allow them the freedom to embrace the physical and mental health benefits of horticulture.
"Drug therapy can be really expensive, but gardening costs little and anyone can do it," said Sir Richard, who is a patron of Thrive, a national charity that provides gardening therapy.
The idea is the latest in a long line of offbeat ideas aimed at improving the nation's health, from dance lessons that can combat obesity to sending depressed people on camping trips. Under the coalition's health reforms, clinical groups led by GPs will commission services and Sir Richard, who spoke out in favour of the changes, believes patients could benefit more from gardening classes than extra medication.
"I have, for some time, thought doctors should prescribe a course of gardening for people who come to them with depression or stroke," Sir Richard said. "The new commissioning structures about to be introduced might allow more innovative treatment approaches to be put in place, including the opportunity to try gardening rather than prescribe expensive drugs."
Too often, appointments are rushed and doctors are unable to spend time talking to their patients. "There are definite benefits to longer consultations - I would much rather a doctor had time to listen to patients and, instead of prescribing anti-depressants, prescribe a course of gardening."
Half an hour spent working in the garden can burn off some 200 calories, according to a study published last year. Sir Richard added: "I always wonder why people go to the gym when there is a 'green gym' outdoors for us all - and, what's more, it's free. Gardening burns off calories; makes joints supple and is fantastic exercise. It is a physical activity that has been shown to be helpful in the treatment of anxiety, depression and dementia."
Ian Rickman, who suffered a stroke at the age of 40 which left him paralysed down one side, has since been helped by Thrive.
He said: "At first, I burst into tears a lot. I couldn't see a way I would ever be able to live my life again, to walk out into a garden, let alone work in a garden. Therapy through gardening is a powerful tool - it helped me come to terms with my stroke, and it helped me learn how to live again."
The idea of gardening as a therapy is gaining high-profile backing from other quarters. The TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh has hailed horticulture for being "great as a therapy" that can "make a real difference to disabled people's lives". And the Health minister Paul Burstow added: "There is plenty of evidence to show the benefits of exercise on people's health and well-being. I'm sure gardening brings those benefits."

Source: http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/news/gardening-enlisted-fight-blues/1319045/
 
I may be able to get in a small garden this year. It has finally warmed enough to plant a few things. The winter lasted so long we are going to have a very short growing season. The large farms have not started planting yet, there is still the possibility of a hard freeze over the next couple of weeks. The garter snakes that hibernated in my basement have come out of hibernation.

Here is a video of my back yard and what I now need to clean up. Hard to believe three weeks ago this was all under snow. Today I'm pulling weeds, mowing grass and planting some tomatoes from seed. No Garter snakes show up until the last 3 minutes of the video. :D


 
Uncomfortable if needs to find from garden snakes. +o( I search from mine just only snails and slugs. :embarrass
 
^ MashaAllah, thanks for sharing!

It looks like you have your work cut out for you uncle Woodrow!

We dont really get snow where I am from, so its interesting to see the different challenges people face in different parts of the world.

All the best with this season in shaa Allah.
 
No snakes in Finland, sister harb?

My husband has tried to show me grass snakes - usually first thing in the morning when they hide under things and are still cold and sluggish. We never had any luck, although I saw one last year, curled up on a branch sunbathing. Sadly it didn't wait for me to get my camera out ...

Not sure I would be brave enough to pick one up though.
 
Yes in Finland has snakes too but they are quite rare and just one is poisonous, "kyy", viper by English, and that one might be deadly poisonous only to children or older people, not to health adults. I haven´t never seen any snake here at all, so they are very rare. Here is also grass snake, but it is not poisonous at all. Rare too.
 
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Uncomfortable if needs to find from garden snakes. +o( I search from mine just only snails and slugs. :embarrass
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We find quite a few things in the yard and gardens here. The things that scare my wife are the "Gray Tiger Salamanders" When I went to get a bag of leaf mulch to work into the soil I found one, He shows up in the first minute of this video. The rest of the video is just a view of the city I live in. I did this video about 30 minutes ago. The reason I am posting it here is to show what we can expect to find in the garden. The salamanders are harmless and very beneficial as they eat many insects and do not eat any plants.

 
Here is this part of the UK the warmer weather finally seems to settle in and the risk of frost is very remote now.

Summer has been a long time coming though.
Hubby and I have spent weeks carrying little seedling plants (such as tomatoes, squashes and beans) outside during the day to enjoy the sunshine and back into the house over night to avoid the cold nights. Our sitting room looked quite a bit like a garden centre ...
(I will be honest and admit that it has tested my patience and my ability to be a supportive wife at times - but I just about made it!)

Now the plants are finally out in the ground and seem to be doing well. Will take the camera when I remember ...
 
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Warm weather here too (actually have been warm during last weeks) and today I planted my flower seedlings and part of herbs (like thymes and mints and part of the basils).

White strawberries from seeds are already almost 5 cm tall. I doubt they don´t make berries at the first summer... need to be patient. :phew
 

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