So what happens to my new but lovely veggie garden when I go working at the docks for 12 hours a day?
There is a certain chance of neglect, because I am tired and short on time. I do however go out early morning or in the evening to water my plants. This should actually be the best time, since it allows the water to seep into the soil and not evaporate.
My plants are doing fine, although there is a bit of WORK that needs to be done!
The tomatoes are done and the purslane, intentionally, is growing rampant. Soon I shall make the @fermentedphil style chutney!
Here is a camera roll of what's going on in the garden:
Overview
Need to plant new veggies here.
The herb squad
I am letting one set of basil go to seed so I can learn how to collect.
Going to remove these tomatoes this weekend.
Mint, growing like a boss.
The purslane farm!
I have lots of building materials!
Young compost.
Branches need to be cut up.
Mature compost.
I have something on tomorrow (Saturday) so I shall likely do a bunch of gardening on Sunday!
Thank you for visiting my garden!
Cheers!
@zakludick
the garden is a passion ... in the next few days I should find the strength to remove the weeds heh heh!
To solve the water problem, I created an automatic irrigation system; in the summer i give him water three times during the winter morning and evening it's fine.
It was a turning point and if you consider that apart from buying the timer and the tubes, I did all the work by myself, I spent little and I'm sure my seedlings will always have water eh eh!
Absolutely! Gardening is a lot of fun and I believe that the skill to grow your own food to be a pasttime that is worth more than just the produce! Should there be an economic collapse, you can still make a plan and keep everyone well fed!
Yes, I fully agree, in fact I have plans to enlarge my garden and also put a greenhouse in it... I like to produce the food we consume 💪
Wow, so you have a garden as well. That sounds cool and it seems I am the only one without a garden here.
Eh eh yes I have a garden and now as you can see I'm organizing a vegetable garden... I like to grow what I eat 💪💪💪
Looking good my friend. I love the basil seeds! When you get one good harvesting season, you will have infinite seeds. It is really amazing how quickly you can grow your "seed bank". Things like rocket and wild rocket (if you like them in salad) gives you so much seed it is actually scary. You will also see with the purslane, they make small seed "cups" in which hundreds of little black seeds hide. Be careful! One purslane plant can grow up to 240000 seeds and they can last for years in the ground. Yes, you read correctly, 240000 seeds per plant!
All good. I am COUNTING on that massive propagation! Mwahahahahaha!
I should probably eat some first though! Hahahaha!
They work very well in a salad, if you are the salad-eating type! haha
I eat salad... salad as a side or as the main bit added to a chop instead of rice or chips.
That is awesome! Might as well just add some into the normal salad and spice things up a bit.
Out of the little time you have, I believe that you will create time to tend to the garden since you have so much interest in growing your veggies.
I really hope to have a garden for myself when I finally get my land. You are doing great so far with the garden and let me know if you need a helping hand on Sunday
Despite lack of time, you’re clearly finding enough of it to care for your plants. Your tomatoes are looking fantastic 🤩
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Thank you very much!
I guess it is the same as caring for the kids and the various pets as well. You have to make time.
Yep. And effort/love 😁