I've been having fun going through the #homesteading, #gardening and #gardenjournal tags again and I hope you enjoy some of the highlights of my reading and viewing.
If you're a keen gardener, you might enjoy the Hive Garden community, which @riverflows and I have been trying to keep any eye on when we can.
If you haven't already met @gubbatv, she's recently bought a homestead and invites viewers to join her on her homestead life learning journey. We've all got to start somewhere and it was enjoyable watching her video on getting stuck into preparing her first garden bed. I hope she gets to connect with other homesteaders here to accompany her on this journey.
It's lovely to see @ligayagardener back sharing here. It seems he's been busy during his break from Hive. This week he shares with us a presentation he recently did on abundance in your summer garden. He's graciously included a link to that presentation, which should be great viewing for those of us dealing with a lot of heat in summer.
I always love a little howto on gardening, so I was pleased to read @blingit's informative post on growing ginger. Not something I've ever successfully managed to grow in my own dry climate.
@fermentedphil’s post on cuttings and weeds got a little philosophical, but I resonate with his approach. In fact I feel like I learnt something new as well. No longer will I risk new plants and seedlings by pulling up the weeds around them by the roots and distributing the fragile roots of the seedlings out of fear of said weeds returning. Sometimes you've just got to get more chill over gardening.
I'm going to wrap up with another howto, this one on growing tomatoes. @tygertyger shares an entertaining write up on this popular fruit, telling us all about them and how to grow them. What an amazing picture they've created to go with the article, as well! It's actually a gif, so do check out the post to see it in its full glory.
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Oooh, lots of goodies. Interested in taht one from @tygertyger !
Well worth a read.
Thanks so much folks :-) :-) :-)
i shall post when the ginger is back ready to harvest. i must find the photos of my last harvest, which as i said, was a few years ago, maybe four years ago as that was when we ripped out that side of the garden.
Happen gardening all.
regards
sarah @blingit
Thanks for the mention and the awesome write-up! So much to read. I always struggle with tomatoes (which is weird because the gooseberries, that is very similar, do so well). I am off to @tygertyger to read about the tomatoes and see if I can somehow grow them more succesfull!
I struggle with everything! If it's not being eaten, it's being frazzled...
Sometimes I feel exactly the same! I am trying to grow basil now, and it looks so beautiful but every day it's being eaten by something all the more. Maybe slugs. I thought the pungent basil smell would deter them, but no!
I find that so much gardening advice and information comes from the UK and US. They'll tell you to plant things like onions and garlic between your vulnerable plants because they repel the bugs. Then I come out at night to find the earwigs just as happily feasting on them as well as the vulnerable plants. I guess when the climate is tough, the bugs are tough too, so pungent won't deter them. 🤣
Now I wonder if some the local plants might not deter pests better? We live in an area of fynbos. Very hardy but pungent plants. You are giving me some good ideas now! Maybe I should try some basil next to a protea plant 🤣
Do let me know the results of the experiment if you try it. Not that I've any idea what a protea plant is...😅
Oh yes sorry! The protea is the South African national flower and grows natively in my region. I will see if my experiment works and do a write-up of the hopeful success. Fingers crossed.
Thanks @minismallholding. I'm a bit like a comet on my own orbit but come around eventually!