Summer Garden Update - Photo-report from our Vegetable Garden
Recently I visited our vegetable garden. Our plot of land intended for the garden is outside the city and we have to spend a little over an hour to get there by public transport, so I do not visit it as often as I'd like.
This creates certain difficulties with watering plants, combating weeds or insects. One can even say that our plants are left on their own... But at the same time they manage to survive, and even please us with a harvest.
Well, I have to say, a lot has changed in a week while I was not there.
Positive changes - our first tomatoes at last began to ripen.
Here they are! A whole bucket of tomatoes of different shapes, colors and sizes.
Cauliflower is also ready for harvesting.
When transplanting seedlings, I accidentally catched one plant from a neighboring row, and now we have one foreigner, a representative of a headed cabbage among the Cauliflower.
Most of our headed cabbages feels OK, except for two heads
The unexpected watering after a long drought caused her to crack. Not very cute, but still edible. Go to mommy, I'll chop you into a salad.
My delicious and beautiful cucumbers were destroyed by aphids. I will not show you this sad sight:-(((
We planted new ones instead of them in the hope that they will have time to mature before the autumn frosts. Will see...
Sweet pepper is almost ripe, it remains a little wait until it shows its color - yellow or red
After the complete destroying our cucumbers, aphids appeared on peppers too, but here are seen a few ladybirds. Did you know that they are fighting aphids by eating it?
In addition to vegetables, we grow some spices and aroma herbs on the vegetable garden. They are also ready for harvesting.
Here they are:
Coriander (also known as cilantro or Chinese parsley)
Basil
Green onions
Strange bush of raspberries, which pleases us with berries the whole summer
And of course, what would be a garden without flowers?
You've already seen my calendula plant growing next to cauliflower... and perhaps even noticed a tall mallow bush that is growing behind a raspberry branch...
but that's not all:-)
and a few more flowers to cheer up;-)))
All the pictures were taken by myself (#smartphonephotography)
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Your garden looks great for being left on it´s own some days! I have some tips to help when you can´t be there in the garden. 1) Re-use your old bottles (glass or plastic) by filling them up with water and then quickly turn them over and push the bottle neck and opening into the ground by your plant. This will water the plant slowly over several days. 2) Aphids hate soap and chrysanthemum plants. Plant chrysanthemum in with your other plants to keep away aphids and other bugs, you should be able to get chrysanthemum seeds. Also, mix up a spoonful of dish soap in a bottle of water and spray over your plants. Good luck with the new cucumbers!
Thank you for these useful tips.
The idea of drip irrigation with the help of used bottles is just super! Cheap and easy. These are the things that you always have plenty at home. I think it should be something looking like this:
I definitely should try your method on my sweet peppers and onions.
Aphids is a sad story. Last year I tried everything I could: soap, soda, bitter pepper, ash, mustard powders and even chemical agents, but nothing helped. I was left without cucumbers, zucchini, watermelons, fennel and black currant... Real destroyers...
The only remedy that really helped is the soda ash + wood ash + water. I tried it this summer and it works. But the main difficulty is that aphids live on the underside of the leaf and you have to manually turn each leaf for spraying. In addition, the treatment should be repeated every couple of days, otherwise the aphids will appear again. It's hard to do when you live far from your garden.
Chrysanthemum? Maybe... This does not require much labor. My mother have a few chrysanthemum plants on her courtyard.
Thanks again for you good advices:)
Those bottles look neat, what do you think are on the pour spouts? The biggest problem i have is getting the to into the ground but that image looks so easy. As for aphids they are terrible little things. I will have to try the soda wood ash combo. This year our rose bushes were overrun with aphids. We used the hot pepper, garlic, and onion spray, but the chrysanthemum was the most effective. The natural oil in the leaves aggravates the aphids and they flee the area.
I found them on Aliexpress, but the price seems to me to be overvalued. $3,45 for 10 such cones
https://ru.aliexpress.com/item/10Pcs-Automatic-Garden-Cone-Watering-Spike-Plant-Flower-Waterers-Bottle-Irrigation/32826392562.html?spm=a2g0v.33020208.6.10.5bfc4J7K4J7KAq&scm=1007.17258.98405.0&pvid=bbe05d34-41f2-4600-a0c6-ff2ce45e7117
Perhaps it will be easier to make a few small holes in the bottom of the bottle and just put it on the ground without turning upside down
Perhaps we could try making our own cones? I use glass bottles because they aren't hard to get into the ground being firm enough material. You could try just leaving the bottles qith holea in the bottom let me know if tbat works. I am currently installing a solar system that will turn on with the sun and stop in the evening. 😆
Зато все экологически чистое, без обработки ядами и химикатами)). Да, огород требует много усилий, чтобы все хорошо росло... Чтобы отпугнуть вредных насекомых, можно бархатцы посадить прямо среди огурцов. И красиво и полезно)).
Ну не совсем без химикатов. Помидоры все-таки пришлось обрабатывать от фитофторы. В начале месяца были ночи холодные, недельку или около того, так кто не успел второй раз обработать - все пропало.
А бархатцы у меня и так везде, и в помидорах, и возле огурцов, арбузов чтобы пчел привлекали:-)
Ааа тогда красота на огороде)). Мой дядя был главным агрономом района,так он всегда советовал такой рец (может ты и знаешь) - 5 таблеток трихопола, бутылочка зеленки, 1.5 литровая бутылка сыроватки это все на ведро воды, опрыскивать огурцы и помидоры от мучнистой росы, фитофтороза, норм средство.
Я и не думал, что сельское хозяйство может быть таким красивым.
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Огород - это безусловно полезно, вкусно, удобно и... безумно трудоемко и времязатратно. Помню, у бабушки в деревне было 50 соток... По ночам мне снилась картошка 😊
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Нет, ну 50 соток "цэ занадто". У нас соток 5-6 наверное, и то вместе с садом, но времени тоже отнимает нормально, потому насчет затратности полностью согласна. Гораздо проще и быстрее все купить на рынке... но так тянет иногда в земле поковыряться:)
вот каждый раз когда смотрю на чей-то прекрасный огород - мечтаю и о своём Эдемском саде)))