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Well, it's early June and it's time for the GARDEN JOURNAL challenge! Less of a 'challenge' really and more of a 'let's enjoy this opportunity to brag about our gardens'. It's freezing down here in Victoria, Australia, but things are still growing as we never really get snow, and never on the ground really. My biggest problem is my chickens breaking into my brassica patch!
Oh, and farting from eating too many yakons - thanks, @simplymike!
Frustratingly, I lost the template for the rejiggered image from last week, so I had to make another thumbnail. PLEASE DON'T USE THIS IMAGE IN YOUR POST - nothing worse than the same image appearing over and over on HIVE!
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Have fun, and happy gardening! There's 10 HIVE on offer this week, which will go either to a super duper amazing post or be distributed amongst the ones I like the best. Obviously, I'm looking for quality photos, interesting stories and some effort! Go gardeners!
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With Love,
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Hi there @riverflows, it's a little tricky for me to do a journal, I may have to get a little creative since my garden is also @thebigsweed s, and he does such great job. So we will see what I may or may not come up with. 🙄
I think it's really a great way to document each years' planting lay out and the yield , as well as the different varieties . For years we would just write it all down in a book , yup, the good old fashioned way, pen and paper.
I must say, I do really enjoy reading about others' gardens, especially from different parts of the world.
I guess you are getting into your winter, while we a gliding into summer.
Shame on you @plantstoplanks, being a little naughty aren't you?😊
As always, a fun , informative and beautifully photographed post. Your garden looks excellent , ours is coming along well also, although you are ahead of us by probably a month weather wise.
Enjoy your day and don't work ~~out~~ too hard.
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I think it is fate, that your post popped up on me this morning, because I just thought I should run away from our garden (still new, we rented it last May )... EVERYTHING absolutely EVERYTHING gets eaten :-DDDD Last year we had snails, a lot of snails, may I call it an army? ANd now ants (and snails) are killing new plants and eating the rhubarb. But that’s not all, three days ago two thirds of my tomato plants were eaten, only the stems remained (I suspect bunnies) and yesterday - sigh and wine - my hand fed rose was completely eaten (I suspect deer).
After these experience (Oh, I forgot we also have a lot mice) I thought: why do I do this???! And then I saw your idea of a garden journal and instantly I had so many photos in mind which will let our garden look beautiful and I was inspired again (all lies naturally, its only the photos in my mind, the garden is a wilderness :-D)
Not sure if I will find the time to really write this post, but nevertheless, thank your for this lovely impulse to get a grip on my negative feelings.
I send you flowery greetings (naturally full of ants 🐜:-DDDDDD)
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Here I was, waiting for the challenge to come out. I have your peakd blog set to open automatically when I open Brave, so I can check every day.
Yesterday, I started wondering why it was 7 days ago that you had posted. You don't take such long breaks, afaik. Only just now I realized peakd had been giving me troubles all week. Posts just don't show up, no matter which node I try.
So finally found it by using hive.blog. Should have realized sooner, lol.
The sun is finally here, after a terrible spring, and slowly but surely, the veggies are starting to grow.
First strawberries have been consumed, and I actually had (and still have) an awesome harvest of peas - it's the first year that growing peas actually worked.
First tomatoes have been formed, on a freaking pomato plant. Hahaha... I'll be keeping a close eye on the plant, though, since tomatoes and potatoes are considered to be bad companion plants. But I saw one in the store and I couldn't resist buying one.... experiments are my weakness 🤣
Maybe, if I feel well enough today, I might go out an take some pics. Who knows I can find the energy to even make a short post before this month's challenge has come to an end.
Thanks, but it's gonna take a while.
It's kinda strange, 'cos tomatoes and potatoes belong to the same family and are vulnerable for the same diseases, so I'm a bit scared for what may happen. If the plants gets sick, I hope I'll notice it in time to save my other tomato plants.
It's also kinda funny, though. Like, you see the tomato plant, it's still relatively small, but you can already see 2 or 3 potato stems above the ground.
I'm really curious to see how this will turn out.
