BYC gardening thread!!

[dan26552]

Yesterday I planted ashley cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, strawberries and blueberries. The jelly melons are now seedlings and we have snake beans flourishing plus a certain type of squash or a plant of that family just popped up out of no where.

Awesome

 

[Elaine Wright]

Yesterday I planted ashley cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, strawberries and blueberries. The jelly melons are now seedlings and we have snake beans flourishing plus a certain type of squash or a plant of that family just popped up out of no where.

Jealous!

 

[hippiestink]

Carrots are green now, I'm leaving them for a few weeks until I can see orange.

 

[Birdlover 13]

Jealous!

Well you wouldn't be so jealous if I told you that today my dog devoured one of the strawberries and a granadilla plant. We managed to save the strawberry but the granadilla wasn't so lucky...

We also have a fig tree growing in the garden and it produces a lot of figs but we don't spray it with anything so the birds and bugs get it every year. So this year I decided to try and get a good harvest out of the tree. I was thinking about using those draw-string gift bags to put over the individual figs.They are cheap, easy to use, there is ventilation and they can be used over and over again.

What do you use?

 

[lazy gardener]

I think I'd try a different color than red. IMO, red might attract the bugs!

 

[hippiestink]

I use white muslin cotton bags. Bought a pack of 100 from the craft store for only about ten euro.

 

[dan26552]

Well you wouldn't be so jealous if I told you that today my dog devoured one of the strawberries and a granadilla plant. We managed to save the strawberry but the granadilla wasn't so lucky... We also have a fig tree growing in the garden and it produces a lot of figs but we don't spray it with anything so the birds and bugs get it every year. So this year I decided to try and get a good harvest out of the tree. I was thinking about using those draw-string gift bags to put over the individual figs.They are cheap, easy to use, there is ventilation and they can be used over and over again. What do you use?

We had dog that would strip the strawberry plants bare of berries, didn't matter what color they were, she ate them all

 

[Birdlover 13]

I think I'd try a different color than red. IMO, red might attract the bugs!

That image was only an example but I definitely will use a different colour and did you know that birds are also attracted to red.

 

[Birdlover 13]

We had dog that would strip the strawberry plants bare of berries, didn't matter what color they were, she ate them all

Same here!

Except our dog instead eats blueberries and raspberries plus she also digs EVERYWHERE!

 

[Birdlover 13]

Has anybody tried growing microgreens because I might want to try it out.