Garden Pictures Chat Corner

I find marigolds beautiful - I have two boxes full started, which will be planted in the vegetable beds as intercrops

Does that really help? Then I'll have to enjoy looking at them :D

In my raised bed and the potato pyramid there are lots of ants. They are eating my radishes

Actually, ants don’t eat radishes. Generally, they don’t eat plants, leaves, or roots. Are you sure it’s not slugs at work there? However, marigolds are popular with them anyway – the perfect victim plant.

No, only ants. No snail is crazy enough to go through so many ants.
Apart from a few snails with shells, I haven’t come across any this year either. My heartfelt thanks to the two drakes from across the street.
Ants are the only ones I have discovered there so far, and they go for the radishes. They are more covered than the peonies. I had to wash the radishes outside first yesterday.

I also like cosmos.. I have been trying for the 2nd year to grow them in trays myself, but somehow I have no luck. They only germinate very sporadically. Fortunately, they self-seed quite well.. Here is an interesting variety from last year.. small flower, big plant.. had self-sown all by itself..

I also defend self-seeding :)

But when I read through the lawn dramas here, I'm really glad we don't have a lawn. Wow, it really is work to keep it looking nice.

I think if we had a lawn, it would be a rustic lawn area, dotted with daisies, dandelions, clover, and various grasses whose names I definitely wouldn't know.