Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

- Newly sown lawn must always be kept moist. Surface watering is sufficient here. For example, 5 minutes every hour.

- Established lawn should be watered thoroughly 2-3 times a week. Best in the early morning hours. The soil is cold and does not evaporate so quickly. Watering in the evening is bad because moisture promotes fungal growth and diseases.
If you take it to the extreme (e.g., golf courses), the dew is brushed off in the morning.

Watering can also be done during the day. Lawn does not “burn” from watering. It somehow withstands it… the only disadvantage is that a large part evaporates and does not reach the roots.
“Burning” affects large-leaved plants. Not lawn.

Exceptions are various types of lawns and very sandy soil. Here daily watering may be useful.

Thank you for the extensive help. I think it already looks a bit denser today.
We will then switch watering to the morning. Someone told me morning is bad because the water evaporates quickly then. But just from a gut feeling, morning also made more sense to me.
I looked again, so at the bare spots in the photo there are already shoots, just few. I’ll see if it gets denser and if not, we will sow again in autumn.

That also precisely explains our educational deficits regarding our 2 boys... so not just succulents (I had to look it up :D Thanks for the term)

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

The goal sounds achievable.
Edible things really bring joy
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I also want a lot of edible things next year. For this year, it's probably too late.
We have a huge slope to green, and I want to have many fruit bushes on it. We first wanted to leave it as it was, but then when we tried to tame the greenery, we did what all the neighbors did: put black foil over it. Thistles grew there, as thick as tree trunks. Nope, not up for that. Also about 100 small alders, some of them already several years old and accordingly not so easy to pull out anymore.
So we put foil over it and then we will densely plant it with ground cover plants and other greenery so that hopefully in a few years it will be green again.


Jungle before terrace work started

After terrace work: topsoil roughly spread and slightly leveled

Slope full of alders and bushes, a few days later. Growing like weeds, because it is weeds ;)

Slope after the first clearing with a brushcutter (normal trimmer with string had no chance there)

"Cleaning up the massacre"

And now the foil is on. I'm a bit sad, I liked it green, but I wouldn't have been happy with the stuff that grew there. Especially the many thick thistles. The neighbor said you'd otherwise always have them in the lawn and I have zero desire for that.

Now we're thinking about what to do with our bank that protects us from the wild animals from the north...
How would you plant it? I would go for a lot of edibles and have so far put together something like this:

Local vegetables: salad varieties chard, carrots, spinach, beans, onions, herbs, potatoes, radishes, red beets, various types of cabbage… and arrange them so that they keep pests away from each other. We started with the Ackerhelden years ago and learned a lot in 2 seasons there. The plan looks good.

In our Wall we have planted a lot of edible things: - Zipperle (wild plum) - makes wonderful jam and sweet purée (also without added sugar); also great for snacking - serviceberry - sea buckthorn (extremely thorny...) - aronia - raspberries - rowan berry (looks great and is edible!) - barberry - hazelnut - blackthorn (grow like crazy, with thorns - and the fruits are great for processing) - elderberry - medlar All these things can be eaten or used immediately, if you like – and the birds as well as other little animals also enjoy the great buffet. I highly recommend the Zipperle – it comes in yellow and red. They bloom early in the year (a beautiful white sea of blossoms) and are immediately eagerly swarmed by the first bees.

The vegetation is much further along with you than with us