Gardening Friends Community Group
A place to share tips, ideas, and our love of gardening! Post pics of your garden's progress, ask questions, give advice, and share stories (like the dandilion that just wouldn't die!)
I noticed this group is a little quiet but I was glad to find it.
I love flowers and gardens and I try my best with my own.
It's trial and error a lot of the time. Things die, things thrive.
Recently I planted marigolds and zinnias. Easy plants and they can stand the heat and they add bright colors.
It is common practice to plant marigolds around tomatoes as the scent deters aphids or other unwanted insects that like tomato plants.
I have Cypress trees and junipers. My Italian cypress died quickly. It got attacked by "rust". I noticed "rust" and branches dying off on my other trees too. I sprayed them with Neem oil which is a natural fungicide and insecticide and hopefully my other trees and shrubs will be ok now.
I love flowers and gardens and I try my best with my own.
It's trial and error a lot of the time. Things die, things thrive.
Recently I planted marigolds and zinnias. Easy plants and they can stand the heat and they add bright colors.
It is common practice to plant marigolds around tomatoes as the scent deters aphids or other unwanted insects that like tomato plants.
I have Cypress trees and junipers. My Italian cypress died quickly. It got attacked by "rust". I noticed "rust" and branches dying off on my other trees too. I sprayed them with Neem oil which is a natural fungicide and insecticide and hopefully my other trees and shrubs will be ok now.
I am more interested in planting things that I can eat. So tomatoes, gourds (zucchini, squash) peppers, things like that are interesting to me.
I do like to plant flowers around my garden, so that keeps my wife happy.
It is nice to grown your own food. I always think it tastes better. I only grow a couple of things to eat.
I didn't do tomatoes and peppers this year but often do and they turn out pretty nice.
I've not tried zucchini/ squashes.
So how are yours coming along?
I planted radishes, spring onions and carrots. Radishes are easy and I grow them each year. Love radishes in my salads. The spring onions not doing so good. Only two popped up. :(. I've never grown them before. And my carrots didnt pop up either. They were new seeds. Not sure what happened. The radishes are fine though and ready to pick really soon
I have herbs. Today I cut thyme, rosemary and sage and stuffed a chicken. It's so nice to pick your own herbs.
And I have one blueberry bush which yields berries each year and it's fun to pick a few and put in my yoghurt. They are sweet too.
Happy gardening. :)
Peppers are cool (see the connection yet???) because you can pick them pretty much any time you want. I have a nice crop of pablano peppers this year, but they are likely going to be too small to stuff. I may just dry them and use them in a spice mix along with jalapeanos and habaneros. (And buy some anaheims to round out the flavor)
Squashes are doing OK this year. Got a two pack of cantaloupes this year. One of them has 4 cataloupes so far, getting that tell tale outer look to the skin. The other seems to have morphed into a pumpkin plant; got one really big one so far. I hear that they only produce one fruit per vine, not sure how that goes.
Herbs are doing OK. Got a lot of basil, gonna dry some to use year round, and gonna make some pesto during the summer! The chives are in their 3rd year and going strong. Got some rosemary, need to start using them in cooking.
The trees are a mixed blessing. The orange tree has been giving fruit for many years. The lemon bush (I refuse to call it a tree) does OK, but not as good as the neighbor's tree that hangs over into my yard. The avocado tree is nice and big, but the squirrels tend to get to the fruit first. It may be war this year!
Your garden Sounds lovely. Do You post photos?
Yep, I finally saw the pepper connection.
I'm a bit slow. Lol