Hey Garden HIVERS! What a delight it is to write this summary of what's going on in our gardens. Rather than listing all the posts, it's far more fun to summarise and include a few photos so if you've missed the show, you can enjoy a summary. Perhaps you might even go and check out the #gardenjournal tag and give a bit of garden love to some of the great content creators on HIVE that are sharing their gardens. Thanks to @bigsweed for unknowingly contributing your hopping awesome photo to the 'new look' garden journal challenge. I do like playing around with thumbnails, so forgive me for the change.
So, let's go - what's going on in your gardens early May?
In Denver, @phoenixwren is planting all her out of date seeds and hoping for a surplus of pumpkins for halloween. I adore this picture of @sanjeevm who, in the midst of huge coronavirus numbers, has decided to make his own oxygen factory - that is, plant more plants! His wife thinks he might have a farmer inside him and I agree!
Violets, apples, lily of the valley and more - @goldenoakfarm is the hardest working gardener I know and it's lovely to see the snow has passed and the blossoms and flowers are showing. The snow has also passed for @amberyooper, who's getting his tomatoes off to a good start in his greenhouse, especially with the heat coming off the wall.
I'm a bit jealous of @isabelpena - her ginger is sprouting beautifully, ready to plant! Mine didn't work last year, but I believe in trying again if you're not successful, right? Thanks for the inspiration, Isabel! @amberyooper is getting busy with tomatoes in time for the season.
Yet another garden started in lockdown in the Phillipines - the pandemic certainly made gardeners of us all! Thanks for sharing, @indayclara - and for sharing your excess with your neighbours too!
@olaunlimited shared his fruit garden. I wish I lived in a place I could grow mango trees! Like me, he's impatient waiting for the fruit, but as us gardeners know, if you don't plant, you won't HAVE the fruit, right? Other trees he's growing are soursop, which I've never tried, lemon and papaya.
@buckaroobaby has been dealing with baboons, strange weather and land that's not really arable, so any efforts to make a garden on her part are totally admirable. Like me, she's an avid herb gardener and herb lover, but I also loved reading about carob, which is a crop I don't read too much about.
@susi5654 wrote about the wet rains of May in Venuzuela - like many countries, infrastructure finds it hard to cope with weather! I wonder how our gardens will grow as the weather gets more and mroe extreme and how we will adapt.
Everything is growing so beautifully in @plantstoplanks garden - I can't believe how many strawberries she has already, and how well her kohlrabi are forming. I adore kohlrabi - my chooks ate mine so I'm a bit jealous.
I have to say the formatting of this post is second to none - do check it out and be inspired!!! It's soooo well formatted. Poor @holisticmom is dealing with the neighbours cat pooping in her garden and British weather, so do go over and give her some love. Check it out here.
@jinsmj03 has to win a prize for the best thumbnail - love a good thumbnail, me!!
@anafae wrote about her wild garden in Bulgaria. She's just starting out - though she's done a little study in permaculture, she's still learning about gardening. Go and give her some encouragement!!! A lovely post that I enjoyed so much!
@latifah1 wrote about coconut bonsai. Don't you love this picture of him? I've learnt so much about natural medicine and gardening in Indonesia since we started @lotusindonesia!
@crosheille wrote of her garden as being like looking after family - and the rewards you get back in kind.
@cbuendia5 wrote about her and her husband's efforts to grow all kinds of things, from jobo (which I'd never heard of) to garlic and oregano. Gardeners are so passionate aren't they? Her passion for her small space garden certainly shines in this post.
@wynella did her first entry on lovely tomatillos! I'd love to grow some! What beautiful fruit they have!
@me2selah wrote about planting mustard seeds - don't you think this lovely photo of hands full of seeds is symbolic of the potential we carry? From little things big things grow!
Just when I thought some of the photos people shared couldn't get any better than @bigsweed jumps in with this one. He's been busy pulling up a lot of the roots like me, because it turns out, one can actually have too many hops.
I hope you enjoyed this garden wrap up for early May - as usual, I enjoyed it immensely! I did find it funny that people were getting stressed they couldn't include more than ten photos - I wouldn't have really excluded you, as I'm not that mean - I just wanted you to be selective as sometimes a lot of shots of one plant can be a bit rough to scroll through, haha! But don't you worry - keep those #gardenjournal photos coming, and don't forget to comment on #gardenjournal posts throughout the month, whether the challenge is running or not.
Winners this month are @bigsweed (hope that eases the pain of all that hops eradication - hard work!), @buckaroobaby for being a woman after my own heart with all those herbs, plus a secondary post about wormwood and lavender in the chicken coop, @indayclara for sharing the excess with your neighbours and starting a really special garden, and @sanjeevm for your oxygen generating garden! I'm waiting for some HIVE to convert to my wallet, so I'll be sure to send it over soon - please be patient.
Happy Gardening!
With Love,
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I love how you do these winner's posts and put everyone in the spotlight. Makes me wonder why I never thought of doing this myself? 😆
Another successful edition! Awesome to see.
You were definitely the start of it all @simplymike....way back when! But I agree. I also love @riverflows style. Thank you for the sweet words, fellow southerner
@simplymike, every time I write these posts I just think how lucky I am to have the honour of taking up this job that you started. It's such a gorgeous community and I love everyone's posts. Viva la #gardenjournal!
I also have a ridiculous fun time selecdting the gif of the month to finish my post!
I've read some of these lovely posts for the garden journal and have to say you all are doing a fab job and I shall check out the rest later.
Thank you for bringing us this challenge as it is keeping me motivated. Well done to the winners, @bigsweed, @buckaroobaby, @indayclara, and @sanjeevm.
Thanks also for curating my post in here too.
Much love and I look forward to seeing more garden posts soon.
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Aaaaah. Thank you @holisticmom
@holisticmom how lovely is it to connect with other gardeners, I always find it inspiring! And I'm so glad that @buckaroobaby and you are back in the game!
YEAH!!!!
Aww thank you and I am glad to be back too. Super stoked to connect with @buckaroobaby too. Her homestead reminds me so much of my land in Spain. By sharing our journals, we have the opportunity to learn so much from each other. xx
Congratulations to all who joined and most specially to the winners!!
I love this challenge, I think everyone's a winner!
Woo Hoo.. I am so glad to be here. I will be using the #gardenjournal tag so often from now on.
Discovering these lovely communities is like a treasure hunt for newbies like me.
I hope I don't run out of resources trying to write about my garden. :D Nah, I am just kidding.
I am heading off to read about the gardens you've mentioned here.
Thanks for this amazing post.
That does seem like I am going to have a great day!
Oh, I could never tire of gardening posts! You have a lovely day too!
Thank you @riverflows, I am on the job. :D
I made my way to a few gardens the other day, but need to keep perusing all of these wonderful entries! Just makes you smile to read them.
I also need to out myself: those buckets of strawberries are from the local farm. Totally my fault in how I wrote my post as I don't think I really clarified that. 😂 If my patch ever produces that much I'd be ecstatic!
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Oops - probably I was too hasty reading your post! Or you're a garden fraud, bahahahahahah.... imagine! I've only ever grown about three bug free strawberries ever. There's always a next year, right?
I think it was totally me just trying to get up a post too quickly without really editing, haha. All good, but figured I would out myself so as not to seem like a better gardener than I actually am. Ugghh, the bugs are ravaging our little patch right now. Raining again today, so the constant soggy weather brings out all the slugs. At least I have my first baby patty pan squash popping up to make me feel a little better about that, haha!
I forgot again to use the tag... Next batch I will... I hope I will never forget again.
Oh, ooops, no worries, plenty of time to join in!
Thank you for all the inspiration - you compiled it nicely.
Thanks @sanjeevm, I've been smiling about your post all week!
I love your gardening banner jajajajaaj beautiful. How many beautiful gardens are there in this post, I love the strawberries from @planstoplanks they look irresistible. On one occasion I tried to plant tomatoes in pots but they were attacked by many fungi and they did not give me. Thank you @riverflows for this spectacular post, hopefully I can show you my gingers soon.
Oh me too, but I'm afraid I read her post poorly as those strawberries are from the farmers market ahaha!!! That's a shame about the tomatoes, don't give up though!!!! I love summarising everyone's post so we get a 'feel' for what's going on, as we don't always get chance to read everyones (though we try, right?).
Congratulations to all the winners!
I can never enter anymore because when I check the date the contest has already passed and I don't receive the contest invitation.
May you continue your success in the contest maybe someday I can enter again because I see you in time.
Next time I'll tag you!
Oh how nice! thank you so much, you are very kind.
I was shocked to see one of my pictures used for the garden journal. I try to keep up with everyone and I couldn't figure out how I missed this one. Then the light went on, bigsweed has no problem with you playing around with the thumbnail and either does @thebigsweed.😁
Thanks for the mention @riverflows. Not only did I sneak this post in under the wire, but to also have you consider this post a winner is awesome.
Thank you for all of your support. I'll make sure to get my next #gardenjournal posted in a more timely fashion!
Have a wonderful day!
You are welcome. Ill be sending HIVE later today.. just had to wait til the funds came in x
Good morning @riverflows, thank you so much for the hive.
Congratulations to all of the winners! Wow I really enjoyed this summary @riverflows. It was a fun way to get a glance at everyone’s work and even some of the photos from the posts.
For someone like me who may not have time to visit all the posts personally, this is greatly appreciated . Thanks for including me ~ 💚
You are welcome, @crosheille . I know we all try our best to visit some, but when we're so busy on HIVE and RL it's hard to get everyones. I do enjoy compiling these summaries for all to enjoy a sprinkling of what HIVe gardeners have to offer!
Just give me the buckets of strawberries and nobody will get hurt....
