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• 21 Nov 2009
  Wish me luck! 1 1 Sunny Outdoor Container garden
  In my biggest endeavor to-date.. I am attempting to move my garden from one country to another.. It’s Eid Holidays, and I’m packing to go home.. the person who usually looks after my garden whilst I’m gone won’t be able to look after them this eid, and all attempts to brib...
  Cloudy 23°C / 73°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  Progress of my tomato pot 8 Happy Tomato 'Roma VF' Branching and Tomato 'Roma VF' Showing True Leaves
  Guys what do you think? Are they planted too closely to each other? There is a good 10 cm distance between them.. somehow i don’t think that’s enough?
  28°C / 82°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  Survivor Mashmoom 1 8 Very Happy Mashmoom and 1st Floor Windowsill garden
  What is Mashmoom? A plant that looks and smells very much like basil (lemon basil), but is not edible. In Bahraini heritage, brides-to-be used to decorate their hair with it. This plant grows in bushes and can last for a very long time and withstands ridiculous heat temperatures! I called this po...
  28°C / 82°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  Watermelons! Happy Watermelon Flowering and 1st Floor Windowsill garden
  Doing the wrong thing by planting the watermelon in a container and letting it dangle (well i don’t have anywhere else to plant it plus it looks good dangling that way!!! I’ve never grown watermelons before! This is something I am looking forward to learn :-) I’d love to see wha...
  28°C / 82°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  Growing very slowly Neutral Peppermint Sprouting
  I wonder when can I plant it out.. i will defo need mulching but I might kill it in the procees.. Let’s just wait till it grows a bit more..
  28°C / 82°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  My new experimental flower pot! 1 Happy Sunny Outdoor Container garden , Lavender , Floss Flower , Marigold , Verbena , and Sunflower
  I know I’ve done all the wrong things here! I have used the wrong pot for the wrong plants! I haven’t chosen the right depth… i put water-thirsty flowers with those that prefer less occassional watering.. and i neglected to thin (i was actually unsure). The pot has sunfllower, l...
  28°C / 82°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  The weird pot! 3 Happy Sunny Outdoor Container garden and Basil 'Dark Opal'
  This pot is a collection of all remaining seedlings I didn’t have the heart to throw away whilst I was thinning. It has many things, i can’t even remember.. Tomatoes, 1 dark basil, u know, i’ll just take a look tonight and update this post! I just wanted the picture to be there ...
  28°C / 82°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  :-( Gave away 5 Unhappy Flower Tower garden
  I think it is safe to say that this planty only like the coarse desert heart of Riyadh! The weather is getting much better now, but it is giving away. I admit to moving it from a sunny position to a partially shaded position, I wanted to re-arrange the garden as it was very messy!
  28°C / 82°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  Growing, despite the damage from the leaf miners Zucchini Under Attack and Sunny Outdoor Container garden
  This poor planty suffered the most damage from leaf miners. I tried all organic solutions available to me, but nothing helped. I was afraid I might kill the plant due to discarding a lot of the infected foliage.. then i decide to leave the plant alone. I went home for a few days to look after my ...
  Cloudy 26°C / 79°F
• 10 Nov 2009
  Noooooooooooooooooooo 3 Unhappy Marigold Budding and Sunny Outdoor Container garden
  I went quite for a few day – I was unable to blog as I had no Internet! So the Internet guys came round to fix it this evening and in the process, they dropped my Marigold windowsill box upside down :-( My Marigolds were just beginning to bud today.. Luckily they were not harmed .. or at le...
  Sunny 26°C / 79°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  Growing wigwag Marigold and 1st Floor Windowsill garden
  Some of my marigolds are growing nice and straight, and some of them are not. I think you need to support marigolds when they are beginning to grow, then they tend to do their own thing! It is my first time to grow marigolds, they’re supposed to be easy to grow! I grew them because i heard ...
  Sunny 30°C / 86°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  Lanky Onions! Sunny Outdoor Container garden and Bunching Onion 'White Lisbon'
  OK!! How do you mulch around onions? They are so lanky!!
  Sunny 30°C / 86°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  It's all about the quality of the soil! 6 Happy Sunflower and Sunny Outdoor Container garden
  So here is a living proof that it is all about the quality of the medium you grow you plants in! I have used seeds from my sunflower grown last year to plant new sunflowers. So they’re all from the same flower, however i have used different types of compost (different manufacturers) and th...
  Sunny 31°C / 88°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  Lemon Tree 1 Happy Lemon and Sunny Outdoor Container garden
  My Lemon Tree seems to be doing well praise the lord! After feeding it with nothing but nescafe, the pH seems to have adjusted, i need to top up the soil as the roots are getting exposed due to watering. But i mean look at the difference between picture 2 and 3!! The leaves are going greener, and...
  Sunny 31°C / 88°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  My Beautiful Herb Pot! Very Happy Sunny Outdoor Container garden , Basil Harvesting, Crumbled Basil Harvesting, Basil Harvesting, Cinnamon Ba...
  The before and after picture :-) don’t you just love those? I have harvested from this pot before i took the picture, I have all sorts of basil in there: - Cinnamon Basil - Dark Basil - Genovese - Crumbled Basil - Bahraini Basil - Two kinds of Parsley (Linea Classica and the Bahraini type) ...
  Sunny 31°C / 88°F