APAD: Hands in the dirt, Head in the sun, Heart with nature

This beautiful gardening qoute was part of the phrase: “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.” by English poet Alfred Austin (1835 – 1913).

Our own backyard has about 20 big trees. We love the them, but can't grow much vegtables nor fruits due to the lack of sunshine.  So instead we enjoy the rooftop garden at our son's condo.   

The first year we were too late; The 2nd year the soil was not nutricious enough. So we put lots of leaves inside the soil last fall,  added sea soil on top of it in early spring, and planted beans, cucumbers, hot peppers, tomatos, and mixed green vegs (kale, chard, ...), in addition to the green onions, Chinese chives, two types of strawberries that were there from last year.

Right now, the "everbearing" strawberries already have started producing (see picture) and will continue so until September, and the green vegs keep producing enough for one or two meals every 3 days (also see picture).  But we leave the green onions for its flowers and are waiting for the chives to recover (not sure what happened to them over last winter). 

Have a wonderful weekend and be happy wherever you are!

View of the gardens from the left

View of the garden from the right

Strawberry time! (the last and smallest one out of 4, note my hand is small too :-)

Green vegs harvested 

Nice! I grew herbs & found egg shells enrich soil very well.

Rooftop has the best sun. I love gardening 2. Mine is small.

I start to enjoy gardening now！My chives just sprout！

请到楼下看Dandelions，天上掉馅饼到你头上，你的大名也在其中！：）

Very nice!

our plot is small2, but we got 4 ofThem (others notUsing) ;)

Earthbound 馅饼 rocketed from an estrella and made a bee-line

toward my head :-)))

The patience of Job you must have!

灵美眉, it was my Thx to 7G & he deserves it ;-)

赶紧感谢一下谁给你的馅饼？！

 

• which shelter us from thunderstorm and hailstorm - 最西边的岛上 -    (0 bytes) (5 reads) 05/22/2024  15:13:10 

• 如果这句能用的话，算7G兄的哈；-），因为我已经蹭过两次他的新闻填空了。谢谢！ - 最西边的岛上 -    (0 bytes) (1 reads) 05/22/2024  15:33:42

 

hahaha, :-)))

No no, it was a work exchange, so no thx needed @all !!!

馅饼's great, but any dumplings left?

Sure. As deserving as Alfred Dolittle as in My Fair Lady :-)

I use eggShell on indoorPlants, myNeighbour felt it was

really funny, like I was hatching chicks from the shell:)))

wow. You got so many garden plot on the roof.

I noticed in Vancouver, there are lots of community garden .

Might be same in Victoria.

I only have4 (ours+3 from notUsing neighbours)

Yes, we have lotsNice ones here, blessed by mild weather.

植物的根会不会钻入房顶？

I’m stunned by their unbound innocence:-)))

Don't forget arm sunburns.

你不觉得楼下那首dandelions很好听很好玩？：）

good point. thx.

there's protection in plot bottom + vegs' roots are small