How does your garden grow?

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Hooray, we may have a garden after all. We just bought some of these things. Well it will be a vegetagle by this summer Inshallah. We figure with all of our traveling we could put a few of these in the windows and take them with us the numerous times we are living in the motorhome.

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That looks neat, Woodrow!
Does it stay in its bag? :?
 
That reminds me of the mushroom plugs (for Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms), which I bought hubby for his birthday.

We needed some freshly cut logs, drilled holes into them, stuck the plugs containing mushroom spores into them ... and hopefully in a few months time we'll have this:

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and this:

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(I'll let you know ...)
 
glo said:
That looks neat, Woodrow!
Does it stay in its bag? :?
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We haven't put the plants in them yet. What you do is stick the plant upside down in the bag so the plant pokes out of the hole in the bottom then fill the bag with soil.

We are going to use tomatoes but make pomatoes. tomatoes and potatoes are so closely related you can plant the tomato in a hole in a potato and you get the top as tomato and the roots as potato when the tomato dies you dig out the fresh potatoes.
 
MuslimahBarb said:
Peace Glo

The mention of rain makes me think of some of the ayahs of one the surahs that Mustafa said this morning when we did our Fajr salat together. It is from Surat An-Naba(78) ayah 6 and especially ayats 14-16.

6-Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse

14-16 And sent dow from the rainy clouds abundant water, so that We my bring forth grain and plants, And gardens thick with foliage.

On the subject of rain, you can see in the photo that there is water standing in some of the rows. We have gotten so much rain this spring and our garden is benefiting from it, mashaAllah.
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Masha'Allah sister.
and how incredibly true.. the most pertinent thing I have read thus far on this thread, indeed, what a blessing from Allah swt..

May Allah continue to bless you and yours, and through his blessings make you an instrument for his good work on this earth and grant you paradise's high meed in the hereafter as he rewards the righteous in both ..

I just love your garden...

ameen
 
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Heeeeeeeee!!! I miss to hear news from your gardens. Are you all too busy with them that no time to post any news or pictures?

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Sorry, sister harb. We've had a lot of rain recently, so garden news wouldn't have been much fun! :)

The very first raspberries and strawberries are starting to ripen. The problem is, our 12-year-old is the one to get up and have hs breakfast first ... so if we are not careful he has picked the berries and put them in his own breafast cereal ...! :uuh:
 
:sl: Glo........... I love you and your garden!!!!!!!!!!! Wow mashaAllah.....


I love my garden too and have passion fruit figs and all sorts i would love to take pictures and share them with you...........but i can never get them on i tried sending some before................


You are a lady of great tast and a lady after my own heart..............:w::)
 
glo said:
The problem is, our 12-year-old is the one to get up and have hs breakfast first ... so if we are not careful he has picked the berries and put them in his own breafast cereal ...! :uuh:
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Tell my greetings to your 12-year-old. Have a nice breakfasts to him.

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And thanks to others too about news of gardens.

In my little garden the first "midsummer roses" are soon open...


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Okay, here is another update.

After days of heavy rain everything has grown (including the weeds ... so I did some weeding this morning)


The tomatoes are staked up, and starting to grow fruit ... but are still quite a while from ripening ...

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The beans are starting to climb and have the very first flowers:

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The potatoes in the tyres have gone MAD:

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I managed to find one raspberry, which my son must have missed this morning. (They are not quite ripe yet ... but that won't stop him from picking them!!)

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The blackberries will come much later in the year, but they have started flowering:

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And one post dedicated to one of my favourite summer fruits - the strawberry:

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Yum! :statisfie
 
Peace with you dear sister glo;

I loved so much your mad potatoes. We here in my country admire the most new potatoes at summer and dill and herrings with them... I just can´t wait to get them soon.

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Just after new potatoes next are strawberries. I know this is out of topic but hopely admins will understand at this time...

White Chocolate Cheesecake with fresh strawberries

Bottom:
170 g unsalted butter
75 g pecans
170 g flour
1 tbsp powdered sugar

Melt the butter. Chop the nuts finely. Combine everything and spread into a buttered springform pan, lined with a round of parchment paper or cut out teflon sheet. (You can attempt to do this without lining, but I wouldn't dare.)

Bake at 175° for 22-25 minutes or until lightly golden. Remove and let cool completely in the pan.

Filling:
200 g cream cheese
300 g white chocolate
25 g sugar
500 ml (2 cups) heavy cream (35-40% fat)

Melt the chocolate. Mix sugar and cream cheese and add the chocolate to this. Beat the cream until it holds soft peaks - don't overbeat it. Fold in with the rest. Pour into the pan, and smooth the top. Refrigerate for at least three hours.

Topping:
500 g strawberries

Trim the strawberries to a fairly even size, and decorate the top of the cake.

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:sl:^^^^^ That cheesecake tasted lovely...........once i had made it. Thanks sis for the recipe, i never used pecan nuts in the base before and crushed them with the biscuits to make the base and it was delicious!!!!!!!!!!!:w::bump1:
 
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Bismillah Hair Rahmaan Naraheem
I am starting to garden insh'Allah this summer with my downstairs. I will be uploading a fee pictures as my garden is right now and what it will be insh'Allah. I do not have a backyard because my house is like a barn if you see it. Where is the best place to garden for me?
 
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Oh Dear Aunty Glo

I am impresed by your Lil Garden Area...

In school life its my hobby to growing diiferent kind of plants in my Lawn& garden but...........imsad but we live in flats...on Firstfloor. dats why i didn't grow any plant..

Do know How to grow indoor plants? & which plants are best grow in the house?

Please if anyone know about indoor plants.Let me know your ideas& info

Thanks
 
Saba Muslimah, do you have a balcony in your flat? Or any window sills, which get direct sunlight during the day?

Are you interested in growing edible plants, or simply flowers?
 

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