Pictured here is my cucumber plant that went pretty berserk last year.
I started getting into a bit of gardening back in 2010/11 when my charity, Headway, used to run some gardening groups.
Over the years my mum has done a lot of research on permaculture and composting is very important to the planet and the more composting you do the easier it is to grow :).
I will be growing more cucumbers this year too as well as some kale, tomatoes and probably radish.
I will also be growing some wild flowers to help out the bees.
Last year, a company called Abel & Cole had a little competition sort of thing and if you drew a picture of a bee you could win a free pack of wild flowers.
I would rather win wild flowers than £1000 that's for sure :).
It's a shame I can't post 2 pictures in 1 post.
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Good luck with your produce. I downloaded PS express so that I could post more than one photo. I downloaded it for free on my IPad so maybe you could do the same? Ali
As I was saying in my other post, composting is important.
I've done gardening before following horticulture meaning you will end up using tools to dig earth and using store bought compost/fertiliser when really you don't have to do gardening that way. Gardening can be so much easier.
Through lots of composting, our soil is so rich and soft and is teaming with worms.
Worms are what you want in the soil. Worms are your diggers.
I was in my garden earlier today preparing soil for this years planting which meant shifting earth from one pot to another. I didn't have to use a tool to shift the earth, I was using my hands :).
Some people have told me how they compost as well but their soil looks so dry and hard.
I had taken horticulture when I was in my Junior year of high school. I enjoyed it and it gave me a great way to get my Student Service Learning hours for graduation. Lots of fun!😀👍👌
Ok..I understand or at least I believe what I'm hearing about your plants is..you had maybe a white fungus powder on the leaves an that eventually.. killed your plants..? if that sounds true..then I had the same thing and it's because you need to water the ground and not get the water on the leaves when..you water..somehow the fugus- spores get in the air..how..? I don't know.. but I hear some of the nurseries have a powder that you can put on the leaves that kills that fungus..good luck for next-time..
I don’t think you do understand. Why did you think my plants died?
They didn’t die, they were fine and I had many cucumbers from them.
Sorry if something I said in my post/comments confused you.
Whenever I did watering, I watered the base of the plant, not the leaves.
But I didn’t have to do a great deal of watering because as I was saying we do more permaculture/organic gardening so that pot that the plant is in is filled up with prunings and other vegetation from the garden/compost material, anything biodegradable, lovely soil on top and topped that with carbon; hay/straw.
The carbon wil act like a sponge and suck in water so the plant hardly ever gets thirsty.
Compost not only acts as a source of food but water as well.
My plant was as healthy as can be :).
As for buying powders and other things from nuseries and so on, we don’t bother.
Why buy compost/fertaliser when you can make your own?
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and thanks for the PS info, that's handy to know. I didn't know about that.
One of my pear trees 🍐
