Trees waking up, flowers blossoming and new plantings. I am so grateful for this small piece of land that was passed down to us recently and we try to convert it to a herb (and partly vegetable) garden, and the olive groves that people have trusted us to take care of.
It has been a long winter and this has increased the levels of joy as the weather changes.
Working the slightly wet from the rain soil and observing mother nature giving birth to new life once again in perfect silence and harmony. Right now, at this point of my life, I can't imagine a better place to be other than close to this transformation.
Plenty of almonds for this year and the buds on the olive trees are a good omen for an abundant harvest next year, depending, as always, mostly on the weather and little to our power.
Still plenty of lemons.
Let's visit the herb garden. New inhabitants have arrived. A laurel tree, a lemon tree and a linden tree.
---Look at this beautiful pink color.---
We also planted some potatoes. The potato seeds were about 10kg, we'll see how much we will harvest. The first year we planted potatoes we had a 1/10 success, but never managed that success story again. Organic compost and organic chicken manure were used.
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Some more babies are ready for planting. Υarrow - Achillea millefolium, thyme, St. John's wort - Hypericum perforatum and samphire.
What is gardening without experimentation?
The onions are growing nice amongst the rosemary plants.
Rosehips, blueberries and one precious tamarillo joined our company as well.
@fotostef is worried about the tamarillo. It looks tired, but I hope that it is going to love its new home. We wanted more plants, but I was able to find only this one little guy. I love zoom for these kind of moments that the other can't even think what you are doing :)
Much as we have worked on the watering system, it is not fully ready yet, so carrying water with the buckets at least for the trees.
And while others work hard, this furry guy is exhausted by running up and down the hill supervising every move we make. As for me, someone has to take the photos for the #gardenjournal, no?
This chair, accompanied by the whole cute set, under the shadow of the trees is as close to paradise I could think of today. Even without pillows :)
I would love to invite @becominghuman and @rukeros! Any garden news to share?
All photos are mine, apart from the one that I am in and is taken by @fotostef.
Happy gardening everyone! Connecting with our plants might be the best way in order to grow as they do and share our gifts as they abundantly share their fruits.
Hello @traisto! I can't help but admire your garden and the shots, too! You have a beautiful garden and furry friend. 🖤 Seems like you have a huge garden there, how big is it?
The herb garden is about 0,2ha (2.000 m2). Not huge, but enough to play and experiment with ease. There are also some olive trees in this land and other indigenous trees, apart from those that we planted. We hope it will become really green one day :)
And we have olive groves (rented) as we are professional organic farmers and we produce olive oil :)
Thank you for the lovely comment and the encouragement @lovehannah!
Amazing! I'm hoping to start my garden, too. For a long time now, actually. 😅 I've just been so busy. Your garden inspires me to start ASAP! I can only do container gardening as we live in the city but I'm excited to start again. Following you for tips and more gardening inspiration! 💚
That would be so cool to start your urban garden! There is so much inspiration in this warm community of HiveGarden, I think you will be amazed! I certainly am :)
And some people even having indoors "gardens" and quite impressive harvests as well! I would looove to see your plants growing @lovehannah! Kids love gardening, so you are going to have a lot of help for the new project :)
Definitely! Thank you so much. Sending love from the Philippines 💚
Thank you @lovehannah! Love from Greece :)
Nice keep it up.
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I love your laurel tree, I wish I could also plant this kind of tree together with black pepper.
There are so many plants I wish I could grow! Isn't this the magic of gardening? Creating small food forests? Aaah, hopefully one day we will manage to have most of the plants we need (or just want, why not?)! I hope you can get a laurel tree, I think they are pretty easy to grow! Thank you @afterglow!
Indeed.
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You have so much going on! I don't know where to start. I've been trying to get a lemon tree growing in my garden for ages, but just an to kill them off.
I do believe your tamarillo will make it, though. I was amazed at what ours managed to survive. It was in a pot to start with, then seemed to be dying, so I blamed my incompetence at growing in pots, but when I went to transplant it I discovered hoards of curl grubs eating the roots. Once in the ground it recovered, though.
Oh yes dear @minismallholding, this is a very busy period!
Lemon trees in our area (and in many other places I guess) suffer from Phoma tracheiphila fungus that kills the branches or even the whole tree easily, don't feel alone in this :)
I hope this one will grow healthy, as well as the next one you will plant! I love having lemons in the garden, I love them in general :)
What a story this one with the tamarillo! Gardening is full of surprises. Absolutely wonderful that you saved it and it does well!
Thank you for the very beautiful input!
Gosh, that sounds extreme! I haven't heard of a citrus tree infection like that here. We occasionally get gall wasps I think it is, which make a lump in the twigs. Then surface pests like scale and leaf miner.
Sadly I think my lemon tree failures are just my incompetence. I've yet to get a sapling established. The only reason I have an orange tree is because it was already here when we bought the house.
I don't believe that AT ALL dear @minismallholding :)
Maybe it is not the right place for a lemon tree. I have seen healthy plants in a garden and then big problems with the same plants in the garden next to it. Could be the sunlight/shadow, the soil or a billion reasons that are different within a small distance and we can't even imagine.
We try and they decide if they will stay, haha!
Really sorry for the delayed reply. Gardening sometimes comes with back pain and that was definitely my case these days. All good now, back to the garden already :)
Oh gosh, back pain is always worrisome. You nerve know if it's just muscles or something more chronic. Hope you stay good.
I do think that the soil on the front where I want one is likely not to their taste, but the front is also much more exposed to both the sun and winds.
Thank you so much!!!
Possibly. Well, I love experimenting, so I think I would try to grow one from the seed of a bitter orange tree that is the strongest of the citrus family, directly to the soil, and then graft it. Long term plan :) Or just try something easier, haha! Experimenting is good, but sometimes easy and relaxed choices are better! Good luck with whatever you do! Anyway, surprises never stop when it comes to gardening :)
That moment when everything begins to show growth is very magical, we are on the opposite moment when fall is beginning to to put everything to rest. We've mainly been harvesting seeds these days and focused on building still so we've put blogging aside until we can finally move in to our new place. Your invitation got us motivated to do a #gardenjournal entry so soon some news on what's going over here.
Were curious on why you plant yarrow. Here it grows as a weed. Do you grow it for medicine or soil repair?
Oh yes, we are definitely in two opposite seasons. It is indeed magical here now, but I also love the moment of harvesting seeds and observing this transformation of nature coming into rest.
So happy the building is moving on, I look forward to reading more on this! I hope the weather is good with you!
Yarrow is for medicinal purposes, but also for fabric natural dye.
Not so common in our region, although very common in Greece in general. Good to know that is good for soil repair too, thanks for the precious info :)
Awwww this post brought a big smile to my face and inner heart space. Thank you for the mention and encouragement. ❤️
Thank you sweet Pachee for your beautiful feedback!