ᐅ Garden Photos Chat Corner

rick2018 schrieb:

- Newly planted lawn must always be kept moist. Surface watering is enough here, for example, 5 minutes every hour.

- Established lawn should be watered thoroughly 2-3 times a week, preferably in the early morning. The soil is cooler and evaporation is slower. Watering in the evening is not recommended because moisture promotes fungal growth and diseases.
If done to the extreme (e.g., on golf courses), morning dew is brushed off.

Watering during the day is also possible. Lawns do not “burn” from watering. It somehow protects itself… The only downside is that much of the water evaporates before reaching the roots.
“Burning” applies to broadleaf plants, not lawns.

Exceptions include certain grass varieties and very sandy soil. In these cases, daily watering may be advisable.

Thank you very much for the detailed help. I think it already looks a bit denser today.
We will switch the watering to the mornings then. Someone told me that morning watering is bad because the water evaporates too quickly, but from my gut feeling, morning made more sense.
I took another look, and at the bare spots in the photo, there are already shoots, just fewer of them. I’ll see if it gets denser, and if not, we will overseed again in the fall.

hampshire schrieb:

That also precisely explains our parenting shortcomings regarding our two boys... so not just succulents (I had to look that up 😀 Thanks for the term)

I can confirm that we also started giving the child water, and he has become a real sensitive soul who now wants some every day. :P

hampshire schrieb:

The goal sounds achievable.
Having edible plants is truly enjoyable.
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I also want to have lots of edible plants next year. For this year, it’s probably too late.
We have a large slope to green, and I want to plant many fruit bushes there. At first, we planned to leave it as it was, but when we tried to tame the vegetation, we ended up doing what all the neighbors did: covering it with black plastic sheeting. Thistles grew there, as thick as tree trunks. No way, not interested. Also about 100 small alders, some already several years old and not easy to remove anymore.
So we put the sheeting over it, and then we’ll plant it densely with ground cover plants and other greenery, hoping it will be green again in a few years.

The wild area before terrace work started

After terrace work: topsoil roughly spread and somewhat leveled

Slope full of alders and underbrush, a few days later. Growing like weeds, because well, it is weeds 😉

Slope after the first clearing with a brush cutter (a normal string trimmer didn’t stand a chance)

"Cleaning up the mess"

And now there’s plastic sheeting over it. I’m a bit sad because I liked it green, but I wouldn’t have been happy with the kind of plants that grew there. Especially all the thick thistles. The neighbor said you’d end up with them constantly in your lawn, and I have zero interest in dealing with that.

Now we’re thinking about what to do with our embankment that protects us from the wild animals coming from the north...
How would you plant it? I’m in favor of lots of edibles and have come up with something like this so far:

Local vegetables: lettuce varieties, Swiss chard, carrots, spinach, beans, onions, herbs, potatoes, radishes, beetroot, various types of cabbage… arranged in a way that they naturally repel pests from each other. We started with the Ackerhelden project years ago and learned a lot over two seasons.
The plan looks good.

In our embankment area, we have planted a variety of edible plants:
- Zipperle (wild plum) – produces delicious jam and sweet puree (even without added sugar); also great for snacking
- Serviceberry
- Sea buckthorn (extremely thorny…)
- Aronia
- Raspberries
- Rowan berries (look fantastic and are edible!)
- Barberry
- Hazelnut
- Blackthorn (grow wildly with thorns – and the fruits are great for processing)
- Elderberry
- Medlar

All these plants can be eaten or used right away if you like – and the birds and other wildlife also enjoy the fantastic buffet. I highly recommend the Zipperle – available in yellow and red. They bloom early in the year (a beautiful white sea of blossoms) and are immediately swarmed by the first bees.

The vegetation is much more advanced where you are than it is here.