Hello everyone. Zak here from Cape Town, South Africa with another gardening update. My veggie garden project uses a lot of recycle/upcycled materials and this is meant to give it a sustainable effect, not spending too much money on it, but spending a bit of time in my garden with my kids, which is therapeutic!
It brings me great joy to see how big the plants have gotten. Sometimes it is not immediately noticeable, but when I go through my old photos I can see the rapid growth and I am quite proud of all of that!
Soon I will have nice home grown tomatoes and I have quite a bit of herbs already... I am busy expanding the garden so more shall come soon!
Let's go through thos pictures!
Tomatoes are doing well. Some of them are starting to change color.
The Bell Peppers in the step up garden are nearly as tall as the Sweet Basil!
In the middle, step-down section, the little Watermelon plant @lex-zaiya is still chugging along. Albeit slowly...
There are weeds... a lot of them. This is what they look like when they are big.
I do not mind them too much between the pathway stones and such...
But they tend to spread everywhere...
They popped up in the pots I used to germinate Radishes.
This is a few days later and look at the Basil go! The Nastrutium is not doing as well as it had attracted a massive amount of aphids. But that was its job. Now the aphids are gone and the Nastrutium has survived!
Those little weeds are everywhere!
There is this strange cucurbit I did not plant on the right hand side... We shall see. I will let it grow out in the meantime...
The Mint is doing that mint thing...
I do not know why but this Tomatoe bush on the end is not looking too happy. Suggestions welcome.
Right. I must say, germinating out of seeding trays and pots is a disheartening experience. Compared to my glass jar method where the germination percentage is way higher on the Bell Peppers, I think I shall go back to that way and plant them out once they are little plants.
@matthew-williams (Age 10) giving me a hand with the compost heaps.
@aimeludick (Age 14) giving me a hand with deweeding the pots. @merenludick also helped me yesterday, but my phone was flat.
Another interesting looking plant I am sure I did not sow. Any idea what it is?
Look... Radishes using my glass jar method. There are more germinated alive seedlings in here than all the other pots and things combind. I did this jar because I wanted to see what the germination time is. I think I may have to build a Seedling box...
As usual, no good building material is left to waste. There was construction nearby and they were throwing all of this out!
@aimeludick and @matthew-williams helped me get them to the house and into the garden. Thanks guys!
@merenludick was washing dishes. Thanks my boy.
Well, that's it for now!
Cheers!
@zakludick
