I am Proud of my new Vege/Herb crop..

I keep all my egg shells and crush them, then spread them under plants that the slugs and other crawling pests love. it helps a lot. Can you take some pictures and share them as this garden grows?

i haven't planted yet because i get so busy lately but its good to have your own garden. i simply want it to be organic and avoid using inorganic methods of getting the soil fertile. i just put considerable amount of organic fertilizer like animal dungs which makes the soil good enough for the plants I'm intended to plant..i like cabbages, eggplant, tomatoes and some vegetable vines that's thrives best here in Ph.

We are going into fall and winter. Not time to plant. I have my biggest problems with weeds to be honest. I need to dig up some potatoes that are still in the ground. We just picked our peppers (capiscum) because the plants got frosted. I am hoping my herbs can winter out.

I was surprised to read your post that it was planting season there. It is fall here and winter is fast approaching. I guess I think of everything as being as it is here. I don't garden anymore, I used to plant a few flowers, now I don't even do that. Last year a friend of mine planted some flowers for me. She added topsoil and things she had gotten out of her compost pile and there were tomatoes in it. So last year I had tomatoes but not on purpose.

Hi jennybianca Ever since we were forced to shift and change houses we have been in rented houses and as they are in the city, there is not much space for any kind of gardens. We have slowly started back with buying pots to plant a few flowers and the winters are near. We expect to have a few Roses this winter. If we stay here for long, I am quite hopeful that we will have at least 10-15 different plants with us. As this is the first time we are doing it, I am uncertain of the Pests but way back in late 1980s and early 1990s when we had a big place to stay and we have a garden, we used pesticides for keeping the pests away. Mom loves gardening and she had a full veggie garden that was well maintained. Things changed when we had to sell off that place (due to losses in business) and moved into rented staying.

i want to plant vegetables,but i don't know how to do that. my mother-in-law planted lots of vegetables near my house,so i can eat fresh dishes everyday. i like eating tomatos. bad pests are avoidless,they appeared to the vegetables out of the world.you can spray agricultural chemicals,but it is may not healthy for us.in fact it is good to eat nature vegetables even if they were eaten by pests.

Ho ...A few weeks ago I made a garden bed using Besser bricks. I planted 4 zucchini plants and a truss tomato plant. I was so pleased with how it looked I extended the garden and planted another tomato and some corn and capsicum and mint. Half the corn did not survive but I still have 5 plants and everything is going crazy. I've had over 2 kilo of zukes already and there are heaps of tomatoes...still green. I've had some lady bugs chewing on the mint and zuke leaves and I don't know what got to the corn so I have that half of things covered with cages. I still have room to extend next year and my friend wants me to put in watermelon rtockmelon and pumpkin but I don't want runners. I need to mow that area and when you move the runners, the plant becomes unhappy. I'm loving my garden and have used my crop in making several dishes so far. I wish I could grow lettuce but they come in lots of 6 and I don't want 6 all at once. I forgot to mention ...I also have an orange and a mandarin tree and a lemon tree. The first two are growing well. The lemon tree is growing but the flowers are falling off before the fruit can begin to form.

Yes. We had problems with oppossums getting into our garden this year. They ate alot of our corn.

Your herb and vegie garden sounds really good! I don’t do any gardening of any kind although I have often wondered about an herb one for my cooking use. It sounds like you know what you are doing in this department. I believe gardening is a passion and if one has that passion everything will grow well! Good luck with it!

I live in South America so, like you, we are in the middle of Spring. I have planted tomatoes, garlic, leeks, green onions, some zuchinni planrts, kale, lettuce and arugule. There are some green beans planted but there´s also a dove that likes them so I don´t know who will win. Tomorrow I´ll try to make a house for them while they are very young. I also planted seeds of coriander in pots (i teake them out from there) and basil that I´m transplnting first to small containers and then will put in the soil. There is a neighbor cat that has me mad and some snails, but besides that, there´s no problem here. Luck with your garden.

I try to have a garden every year, but last year when the ground squirrels attacked and killed all my plants, it was like getting the wind knocked out of me. I've always had to fight gophers and deer, possums and raccoons, and tomato horn worms. But ground squirrels don't play fair. They don't eat the tomatoes -- they cut them off at ground level so they all die. They just seem to like to destroy things. I garden not only to produce organic vegetables, but also to relax and be close to nature. If it just causes stress because I don't know how to fight the varmits, it's no longer relaxing. I did get a few tomatoes this year. The beasts decided to leave me alone. But to be safe, I also planted tomatos and peppers in pots on our city property, and we got more from that than we did from the garden. WE have a very good farmers market, and I'm about ready to throw in the trowel.

Oh that's nice,I hope the pest won't even get on them.We do have some veggies in our backyard like tomatoes.eggplant,spring beans,they are growing nice but sometimes the pests really came and also roving chickens hehe.

I love gardening too. I don't have a lot of space and I get more of the west sun back there so it's too hot for most plants. One thing I can tell you is that if you want to keep the rabbits out then plant some flowers along the edges as a border. Marigolds are nice and easy to grow. Something like that works very well. Good luck and I hope it grows well for you.

I am so very jealous that you have a plot of your own!! I don't have much space here so I garden in "phytopods" or garden towers, that I built myself! Vertical gardening is the only way to go if you have limited space.