My Vegetable Patch 2011

[Foreveryoung]

Growing vegetables and working in your garden is officially cool. Requires patience, but the results u get in the end brings immense joy and peace of mind. I wanted to have my own veggies and this is the first attempt we are gonna take inshallah this year. I got seeds for

Bhindis
Karai'laas
Kaddoo
Pai'thaa
courgette
halwa kadoo


Seeds of the listed veggies.

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Then we prepared these vegetable patches today. The square empty space is gonna be my Mini Herb Garden inshallah and next to it is tiny flower bed. Way to go but just taking the first step towards a nice looking and well maintained garden insahllah. Here's what been done today.... Will keep updating as we grow veggies inshallah.

Vegetable Patch

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Will keep updating u inshalah.

[noora]

thank you

[Riz]

hey ash,

how you get the butterfly to shimmer in the 3rd pic thats awesome :)

have you sowed the seeds yet !? i really like your veg patch coz there is no plastic in site.. thanks for inspiring me NOW i cant wait till its may so i can start sowing too :)

[Foreveryoung]

You are welcome Noora :)

@ Riz.
Go to Photobucket, Choose Edit, Click on Animation and Choose "Animated Stickers" under that option.


and no, Vegetable patch was prepared yesterday and today was a very hectic day so inshallah tomorrow for sure :) and you can do the same in one of ur corner.... Dedicate a small area to vegetables. and thank u for the encouragement and this site itself is an inspiration for all of us :)

[Riz]

i see, thanks :) never knew that PB had so many options...

[Foreveryoung]

My bhindis starting to appear recently .


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[Foreveryoung]

Potatoes

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[Foreveryoung]

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I am not sure how am i gonna use them.. :unsure: Wanna make something special from [CENTER]the very first home grown veggie or may be i'll wait for another couple of days for the rest to be ready so that i can have them in reasonable quantity. lol

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[Foreveryoung]

and some mint.........

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[Riz]

nice spuds :)

mint looks awesome, no shortage of chutney in your household :)

[Foreveryoung]

^ thank u

[Foreveryoung]

After bhindis, potaoes and mint, i got excited to spot some Karaila's (bitter-gourd) and Kaddoo's seedlings :) A happy day indeed.

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[Riz]

^ love it :)

just make sure the cat dont trample over them...

[Foreveryoung]

^ Thats something inevitable... Not in my control.
Thanks .

[Riz]

use CD`s affixed on a piece of wood dangling down blowing in the wind, when the sunlight hits the cds they send out beams of light in all directions that kinda scares the birds and the cats :)

[Foreveryoung]

The thing is that my vegetable patch is in the area where there is no sunlight at all. If u see in my Climbing Vines thread, then u will get to know its location. All birdies and even cat like to sit under the shade of tree especially in summers and naturally the area is always watered hence softness and the coolness of the soil attracts /
Secondly ur cd idea wont apply there because of no sunlight =(

[Foreveryoung]

Awwww look what i just noticed ... How come there are two different kinds of leaves on this one :unsure:

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Growing and becoming healthy =)

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[Foreveryoung]

Getting greener and greener :) Really makes me so happy.

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LOL =P She better remain asleep and wake up after 100 years , or atleast when my veggies are grown enough not to mind when she steps on them :P Carrots are growing at a good pace mashallah.

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[Foreveryoung]

Potatoes .

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[Foreveryoung]

AOA Everybody.


I took pics of my vehetable patch yesterday. Gonna share with you =)

[Foreveryoung]

Bhindis.
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Look Closely, the tiny ones =)
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Here, this made me jump with joy. My first ever veggie in our garden and that’s too my most favourite vegeteable . lol
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[Foreveryoung]

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My karailaas.

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its flower.

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[Foreveryoung]

Paithaa = Halwa Kadooo or Pumpkin …

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Onions :cheerleader:

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Squash.

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[ze leetle elper]

its amazing to be able to grow such a wide variety of veg because of your hot climate! What country are you in? I would love to grow Okra but unfortunately don't have a greenhouse!

Veg I now have growing are: Cucmbers (still small!) Courgettes (same!), pumpkins, tomatoes, chillies, carrots, peppers, spring onion, lettuce, radish, beetroot, potatoes, spinach...think that is it! Herbs: mint, coriander, thyme, parsley, basil, chives

[Riz]

Hi ash.

congrats on your bhindi :GreenThumbs: its actually my fave desi-dish to :)

its really great when you sow a seed and 7 days later you see it sprouting and even better when that seed grows into a plant and then starts to flower and you can see the tiny fruit developing, thats the best feeling and it always makes my day, and thanks for the great pics.

The okra needs lots of heat just like aubergines/egg plants thats why i never had much success with them outdoors in Uk and i dont have a greenhouse yet.

cant wait for your pumpkins to develop, i wonder how many pumkins you will get on the vine, you should keep on growing one to see how big you can get it. :cigar2:

i grew one 2 seasons go, sadly no pics as they went down when my laptop crashed and i dint make a back up :D

i got 3 football sized pumkins out of it and the vine grew to almost 15 feet in length.

[Foreveryoung]

^ You are right Riz. There is just something about gardening that soothes the soul. It's the sheer magic and satisfaction of planting a tiny seed and nurturing it to an edible size. I like knowing that something lives because of me I just love spending my time in our garden because my thoughts turn toward my mother who instilled in me the love of gardening and of course there is a sense of accomplishment when I can see things growing and ripening. =) Everything about gardening is good! (Except the drought and weeds) =)

[Foreveryoung]

What country are you in?

Herbs I now have growing are: mint, coriander, thyme, parsley, basil, chives
I live in Pakistan :)
and i am thrilled to know you are also growing such a variety of veggies mashallah. A friend sent me some seeds of the herbs u mentioned above so I have yet to sow them/ Let's see what results do I get .

[Foreveryoung]

Update on my veggies :) Tiny karailaas and bhindis can be seen mashallah :) and some mangoes from them ango tree too :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-E1nSBdJ4w


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[Foreveryoung]

Why cant i post the youtube video the way u posted Riz ? It used to work fine for me earlier :unsure

[Riz]

loved the vid thanks,, all the exotic noises in the background :)


just use these tags below and copy everything after the equal sign =C-E1nSBdJ4w


[you tube] [/you tube]

* dont insert space between "you tube" though

[Foreveryoung]

Salam members.

Here's some update on my Vegetables.. Bhindis growing healthy mashallah... Let me share its pics with u first.


its flower......... such a beauty...

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Subhanallah,............

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[Riz]

love the okra flower.. :)

well done with the bhindi

[Foreveryoung]

^ Thank You Riz :)


Here are my onions :)


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[rubmanhayat]

This is really nice mashallah. Hope mine will be like these too. I have a dozen of 'em. I saw your vid on youtube. Love those mangoes :) I am hoping we get 'em this season here. It's been ages I ate one.

[Foreveryoung]

^ Thank u so much Hayat....
and nothing's like Pakistani Mangoes. Have u ever experienced ravelling in PIA in summers ? The moment u enter the plane, u can smell mangoes :P Almost everybody carries paki mangoes for their loved ones from Pakistan in June, July :)

Hope to see ur veggies soon iA :)

[Foreveryoung]

I seem to have some insects eating away the leaves of my plants. I found all my plants damaged this morning while watering them. Squash, roses, hibiscus, okras … all of them =( If anybody has had this problem or knows how to deal with it please let me know. Shall I use some pesticides ? I never wanted to use them on my veggies….

Here are the pics below.
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Can too dry and too hot weather make leaves dry ? I don’t know what went wrong with my healthy growing squash and bitterguord vines. Yellow leaves are developing rapidly.
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And not only that, the third problem is with my ROSE PLANT. Look wat went wrong with this.

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[Foreveryoung]

AOA .

This is what I was talking about.


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[Riz]

ash,

the first pic looks like insect/caterpillar damage, if you can get some neem oil and mix it in with water in a spray bottle and spray the leaves all over not forgetting to spray under the leaves too in the early evenings, do that once a week and keep you eye on it hopefully that will get rid of them..


the yellowing of the squash leaves looks like a nitrogen deficiency use some fertilizer and water in to plants, do this once a week for a few weeks then see if it gets better...

the browning on the rose bush could be heat stress, this happens in dry hot conditions, best thing to do is pull of the damaged leaves and cut the plant back and dig around the soil at base of plant and loosen up the soil and feed some fertilizer to it hopefully this will work....

and please keep us informed.

[Riz]

*bump*

[~Obsidian~]

Karele grow on a vine? Fascinating! Masha'Allah at your garden :D

[Foreveryoung]

^ Jazakallah khair Obsidian =) My karailas did not do that well. Just few small ones and that;s it but i am happy with my okras :)

Here are some i just got today and iA gonna cook the m for dinner. These are big in size but really very sift and tender.

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[Foreveryoung]

Thank u very much for all the useful tips Riz. I will update you soon after following what you mentioned in ur previous post regarding the problems am facing in my garden.

[Foreveryoung]

AOA :)

Finally I cooked Home Grown Okra and gonna share another surprise with you all =P

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erm here's come next part =)

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Okra Printing dedicated to this site =)

You can see caterpillar patterned leaf and hibiscus flower on its border..


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[~Obsidian~]

waAlaykum AsSalaam

Nice prints masha'Allah, looks like it was fun!

[Foreveryoung]

waAlaykum AsSalaam
Nice prints masha'Allah, looks like it was fun!

Thank you Obsidian =) Jazakallah Khair :)

I wanna share with you all my zucchini/courgette vine with you that grew all the way up to the wall and I had to go to rooftop to capture these pics for you.

Its growing wild, its healthy and its full of flowers now mA. Just dont know how am i gonna take off veggies from the vine.


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[Tania]

I am impressed. Its the perfect spot to read a book there.

[Foreveryoung]

I am impressed. Its the perfect spot to read a book there.

hehe thank u Tania. In evenings , yes i just love to spend some time there and you know I am not sure if we'l be able to eat those zucchinis or not as its even difficult to get a bamboo ladder of tht height so probably i wont ever taste my zucchinis. But still just love the look of the vine climbing over ivy. Such a beautiful landscape background it gives ... and that's why i planted/ sowed all the flowers in front of that wall this summer :)

Here is another pic just captured a while ago.


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[Foreveryoung]

Its been three months now and my squash vine is growing wild in the garden. There was a time when its leaves turned yellow but they were fine after a while ... No signs of fruit as yet.


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[Foreveryoung]

and my home grown lemons :)


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[Foreveryoung]

Can’t stop staring at this pretty corner of my lawn. =)


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Looking at the wild zucchini vine from my rooftop climbing on other plants.


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Pretty yellow flowers...

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[Foreveryoung]

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Finally I could spot some baby zucchinis. :cheerleader: :D

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[Foreveryoung]

Fa bee Ayyee alaa 'E Rabbi Kumaa Tukazze'baan :)

Alhamdulillah for such a beautiful gift this morning :cheerleader:

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[Foreveryoung]

Harvesting bumper crop of Zucchinis.

We should harvest zucchini when it measures 6 to 8 inches long, which typically takes 5 to 8 weeks. They will grow much larger if you let them, but the smaller plants are more tender and flavorful. I spotted so many today and decided to take them off the vine. I would have harvested them even when they were smaller but never really saw them as its so bushy that they hid easily behind the leaves. During their peak production time, it's not uncommon to harvest zucchini several times a week.

My excitement grew wild when I saw huge black coulourful butterflies coming out of the vine as well as several black bumble bees with shiny skin. For about the past week, we’ve seen quite a few Bumble Bees roaming about getting nectar :) But when we touched the top of the vine, wow ...... they came out from ever leaf . lol. Such a pretty sight it was mA. and birds chirping in the garden :)


Talking of bugs Riz, another thing I want to mention before I forget is that if you remember i shared some pics with you in the beginning showing how my leaves turned yellow and we were trying to identify the cause ? While looking at the pics of some Garden bugs today, I recognized this one type called "squash bug". I shared its pic in Gardening thread on MP. So while reading about that bug in detail, it was mentioned that they have piercing-sucking mouth-parts which they use to suck the sap out of leaves. Their feeding causes yellow spots that eventually turn brown. The feeding also disrupts the flow of water and nutrients, which can cause wilting. And then how can you forget those chewed leaves ?? Right ? Those were because of cucumber beetle =) They love to munch these plants. so case solved. lol



So my friends,, less talk and more action. Here I present my Zucchinis Harvest.


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[Foreveryoung]

Aww I liked this video :)

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[Foreveryoung]

Final Product for the Dinner tonight :) Nothing tastes like home grown veggies guys

just salt and green chillies , tomatoes , onions , garlic, ginger paste was added to give the flavour. Oh Kalonji was the secret ingredient but well telling u :cheerleader:

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[Biloo_01]

Wow!! Good going! Am still peering at my vegetable patch for signs of my first growth... Where do you get exotic seeds from? Such as kerela?
Can't wait for some more updates!?!

[Foreveryoung]

Wow!! Good going! Am still peering at my vegetable patch for signs of my first growth... Where do you get exotic seeds from? Such as kerela?
Can't wait for some more updates!?!

Thank u Billo.
I cudnt wait for the harvest the day i sowed those seeds . lol Look forward to see ur vegetable in coming days iA. what veggies are u growing ?

and I got these seeds here locally :) I'll keep updating iA. Thank u very much.

[Biloo_01]

I'm growing carrots, raddishes, pak choi, lettus, spinach... Apparently at this time of year I can grow a few strong leafy vegetables.

[Foreveryoung]

^ How nice :GreenThumbs: You are growing quite a variety mashallah but sorry for my ignorance , what's Pak choi Billoo ?



Here, I made another small clip today. Wanted to share new blossoms after the first harvest of my zucchinis. If u start counting them, u will lost count. Mashallah the vine is full of tiny veggies and more flowers , too.. This time Alhamdulillah most of them are in my reach too.



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[Foreveryoung]

Zucchini Flower closing in the evening


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[Foreveryoung]

Home Grown Veggies.


Gold Nugget Squash - A variety of winter squash, which is sometimes referred to as an Oriental pumpkin that has the appearance of a small pumpkin in shape and color. It ranges in size from one to three pounds.


Zucchinis - and Ghia Kaddu i-e Bottle Gourd. Longish and Roundish both.

Baby mango plant tall one is guava some mint and Motia in the background can be seen. Yellow flowers are fallen from zucchini vine.

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[Foreveryoung]

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[Dunemist]

Wow - they look fab. We are behind with our veg this year because of having every weekend for eight weeks away from home taking care of an elderly relative. Anyway, today we bought some autumn planting veg, so we are looking forward to a bumper harvest next year! Is it too late to plant squash?

[Riz]

healthy and abundant ash , nice stash you have, but squash every other day to eat dunno about that :)

dune, dont think you can sow them now, September is the time when we harvest them, but next may you should :)

[Foreveryoung]

Sorry guys , I completely forgot and thank you for your comments. Did not visit this thread at all and just saw u posting here.

posted the first pic in Herb's thread where as just realized that these were all veggies and herbs are on the other potion posted earlier. so posting it here in Veggie section my peas, turnips, green beans, and even coriander and garlic..

http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/Herbs/DSCN1289-1.jpg


Update
You can see garlic as well now ......... Captured on 7th Oct,2011

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Its allllll green zone...

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Pomi on a pea seedling..

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[Riz]

everything is sprouting, the garlic really came out :)

[Foreveryoung]

^ Thank You Riz.

Here's update on my zucchinis .......... Last few left and the vine looks still amazing to me somehow .

[Foreveryoung]

update on my veggies n herbs....................

Pic1- Garlic seems like a rice fields.lol
Pic2- One of the herbs growing fine so far.
Pic3- I think its Basil.
Pic4- Close up of Basil Germination
Pic5- Another close up. Probably thyme.
Pic6- Onions started to grow and in the background u can see garlic and other veggies.
Pic7 and 8- Mint and Peas can also be seen.

[Riz]

2nd and 5th pic look like basil seedlings :)

[stylemichelle21]

Garden looks great! I'm feeling lazy looking at all of your pictures...I need to get in gear!

[Riz]

do you have any new updates ash ??