How does your garden grow?

[sister herb]

The first tomato:

 

[Karl]

Hehe.. it's still rather bigger than mine, though!

Oddly enough, after years of neglect the Mrs and I have finally turned our attention to gardening and I had a vanload of new sand, soil, compost and such delivered this morning ready for the holiday weekend. We are trying to grow food as well, the store prices have gone through the roof recently and whereas in the past I doubt it would have been economical it certainly is now.

P.S If anybody has any tips about how to keep slugs away from salad plants without harming them (both slugs and salad), please let me know!

Put fine sand around your greens. Slugs and snails hate sand and won't cross it.

 

[sister herb]

Peony buds have just started to open:

 

[Hulk]

I dropped a pot of cacti someone gave me now it's in a mess.

 

[sister herb]

Full opened peonies:

This peony looks like it would be a rose:

 

[Nebula01]

I'd like to have a plant at home with beautiful flowers but that is easy to take care of. Any suggestions? I have the great skill to forget to water my plants and well they die.

 

[Lady A]

Pretty peonies Sister Herb! I really enjoy your pics, thank you for posting.

Nebula01: I have phal orchids indoors. They only require water when potting medium is dry (for my area it takes about 1.5 weeks). The blooms last for months with the right care. Give them a try!

 

[sister herb]

Hopely you don´t get tired to my garden... :exhausted

Calendula officinalis

I need a rabbit! Too much lettuces here!

 

[sister herb]

Everything is so green... I will miss this color at the winter again but now its time to enjoy about it.


Herbs and flowers: hyssopus officinalis, lovage, peppermint, chamomile, dill, sun flowers).

Enough herbs for the whole year:

The old iron cauldron is now somewhere under the flowers and herbs:

It has hidden quite well.


Veggies grow bigger and bigger:

Shark fin melon. It has many buds.

It fills its box quite well and makes new brances to other directions:

 

[Lady A]

Calendula looks almost like a sunflower :sunny:

 

[sister herb]

^^ They are like a little suns in the garden. :statisfie

 

[sister herb]

A bunch of wild flowers from my garden:

 

[Lady A]

^ Love it, Sister Herb! Perfect for a tea party! :statisfie

 

[colinberry1]

I bought a few herb plants on the Internet, also a curry leave plant, love lots of them in my curry, so I am hoping that I can cope taking care of it.

 

[sister herb]

Sunflowers have tiny buds on the top. Their seeds are from the bird feeder - the birds didn´t eat all seeds but dropped few of them to my garden. I have to remember to leave the seeds from those sunflowers to birds at the autumn as they were their gardeners, not me.

At the evening the whole garden has fragrance of herbs, specially those whose are now flowering like thyme, mints, chamomile, anise hyssop and flowers, specially peonies (their frangrance is something between fruits and cloves). Its like walking through the parfume cloud.

I can do anything else than thank Allah about the change to have a tiny garden with so many wonderful odors.

 

[sister herb]

Shark fin melon has the first bud:

And beginning of the first melon:

More shark fin melons and squash in the compost bed:

With melons and squash grow also violets:

I like gardens which grow like a nature - in the wild nature too there are many different plants growing together. Plants know by themselves, which ones are suitable neighbors. Unfortunately the weeds love to grow with all... ;D

 

[sister herb]

Behind the tomatoes is a secret garden... :giggling:

 

[Muhaba]

MashaAllah sister herb, your plants look beautiful. I'm a plant and animal lover but gardening is a lot of work.

 

[sister herb]

^^ It´s a work I love to make. Not only for the harvest season but having a little green corner is nice. :statisfie If I ever reach Jannah, my wish is to have a little soil, some seeds and a hoe.

:lol:

 

[sister herb]

Broad beans are flowering by black and white flowers.