Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

Tomtom, I haven't even started this weed-free project yet. This spring, the lawn barely grew where we overseeded, and so far we are sticking to the decision not to water the lawn this year (last year we seeded, which was unavoidable). I understand the frustration, but I might also save myself the effort if you can't properly overseed.

It is so dry here that the thistles don’t even grow anymore. I watered last week. Once, properly for 3 hours. Then I checked, the water penetrated about 15 cm. That should be enough for 1 week. Allegedly, this makes the lawn more drought-tolerant. It is turning really green again. It is supposed to rain over the weekend. The ecological bee-bumblebee meadow [Bienen-Hummelwiese] is doing best in our village. You can’t tell the drought on it. Not on my slope either. The birds and insects use the bird bath.

is so... I don't waste water on grass/lawn - and our lawn was still blooming, while the lawns around that were not watered are all brown, you can see very clearly who waters and who doesn't. I am very glad that rain came on Saturday, and not everything is dried out.

No rain. Although water is not scarce here.

I don’t water the lawn anymore. It doesn’t make any difference anyway. Last year, I spilled who knows how much water in the garden on the lawn and it still dried out (or: more like burned). This year, same story: drought, heat – but without watering. In the shade, it’s still green, in partial shade light green, and in the sun everything is yellow. Just like last year.

I also don’t water the wildflower meadow, and the wildflowers as well as some herbs like oregano are doing great with that.

But the hydrangeas are very sensitive to drought; you have to water them thoroughly every other day during heat. Otherwise, I water deeply once a week if it doesn’t rain at all. And here it hardly rained at all in April, and so far in June and July almost not at all....the water bill is going to be nice again. Only in May did I not have to water.

Our fruit harvests have been extremely good again so far. The sour cherries are better and more abundant than ever before, and the sweet cherries, serviceberries, raspberries, strawberries, currants, and rhubarb were also very productive. We have given away a lot again. I will harvest Kornäpfel tomorrow; the tree is creaking under its load, and during the storm, a large branch on the plum tree broke off under its fruit load, which we unfortunately had to cut off. So the harvest has been incredibly good so far; only the plums are still missing, but they also look like they will yield an absolutely fantastic harvest.