How does your garden grow?

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glo said:
It's been great sharing your and Barbara's garden over the years, Mustafa.
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Yes, and it has been nice to see what you and your husband have done with the allotment. Having a garden is a lot of work, but it is also an enjoyment and continuing a family tradition.
What are the rows with the wooden frames? Some kind of bean?
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Yes, those 2 rows are pole lima beans with climbing vines. The variety is called Persian that produces abundant dark red beans with black splotches. I have tried several different varieties, but they made very few beans - mostly just vines - I think because they didn't have heat tolerance.

The poles are in the ground about 2 feet and braced with a board at an angle. A cable gows across the top and bottom with twine wrapped around to give the vines something to grow up. At the time, I hadn't finished the one on the right as the twine is still on the ground.
 
MustafaMc said:
I am no expert on flowers as vegetables are more 'my cup of tea' (can't eat flowers). I suggest that your flowers are probably fine as the foliage looks quite healthy. Flowers go through natural process of developing bud, fresh bloom or flower, dried bloom, seed pod development. It seems some of your flowers have progressed into the dried bloom stage and the petals will soon fall of leaving the seed pod to develop and produce seed. The good thing is that you probably have new buds that will bloom soon.
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glo said:

First off, I am no garden expert and this is no Ask-glo thread! ;D <<<<<<< :giggling:
Secondly, yes I do go to bed occasionally.

But this doesn't look like frost damage to me. (And even in the most northerly part of the UK we haven't had any frost for some weeks now, so it wouldn;t belikely anyway)
I agree with Mustafa. These flowers are just naturally dying off.
With reagrds to your comment that they were fine yesterday, Petunias are very pretty, but the flowers are also quite large and the get floppy in heavy rain and wind (which we have had!) quite quickly.

I suggest gently picking off the limp and dead looking flowers - which is supposed to encourage further buds. Overall the plants are looking nice and healthy.

Lovely looking hanging basket, BTW! :statisfie
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Thank you for your replies. I was hoping it was as you both said about old flowers dying. But as you can see the buds have died too. I remember the summer before, how some flowers would die while new ones bloomed, so my baskets were always filled with flowers. It's unusual for them to die all at once, and even stranger for the buds to die with them. I checked for signs of pest infestation but there's nothing. I'm just so, so confused.




shriveled up buds
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I was going to make a basket for mum but ahem.... these died too :(
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more dead flowers and buds
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Snowflake said:
Thank you for your replies. I was hoping it was as you both said about old flowers dying. But as you can see the buds have died too. I remember the summer before, how some flowers would die while new ones bloomed, so my baskets were always filled with flowers.
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Sorry I couldn't help. Are the plants getting enough water?
 
The squash family have the most beautiful flowers, don't they?
Do you know that you can eat the flowers?
 
sqaush are beautiful plants. we once had squash plants. it was a vine that went all over the walls and on the roof of the house. and we got so many squash from it.

i didn't know you could eat the flowers. we never did.
 
I got most important matter to my garden: hammock.

So nice lay there and look leaves of maple above me.

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^how peaceful! i'm sure it's nice to lie there with no worries! is the weather nice overthere? you're in austria right?
 
Endymion said:
Thats Brutaaaaal ...
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How so? Women think of gardening as producing beautiful flowers and men think in terms of growing something to eat. The same applies to our chickens. My wife sees them as her pets and I see them as something good to put in a pot with dumplings. :nervous:
 
MustafaMc said:
How so? Women think of gardening as producing beautiful flowers and men think in terms of growing something to eat. The same applies to our chickens. My wife sees them as her pets and I see them as something good to put in a pot with dumplings. :nervous:
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I must break that mould, Mustafa.

I always prefer function over beauty. Vegetables always take priority over flowers (although the latter have their uses in attracting bees)
As far as I am concerned, there is beauty in function - and that's good enough for me.
 
glo said:
I must break that mould, Mustafa.
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You prove the point that 'generalizations are generally wrong'. You are an old-fashioned country girl with a distinct practical perspective.
I always prefer function over beauty. Vegetables always take priority over flowers (although the latter have their uses in attracting bees)
As far as I am concerned, there is beauty in function - and that's good enough for me.
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In an odd way, your statement reminded me of the book, "Zen and the Art of Motrocycle Maintenance" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance "the book details two types of personalities: those who are interested mostly in gestalts (romantic viewpoints, such as Zen, focused on being "In the moment", and not on rational analysis), and those who seek to know the details, understand the inner workings, and master the mechanics (classic viewpoints with application of rational analysis, vis-a-vis motorcycle maintenance)".

The difference is in aesthetic vs functional beauty.
 

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