Belinda's Back Yard Gardening

Hello and welcome to Belindas Back Yard Gardening where begginers and expert's are welcome. 🏵️🥒🌼🌿🌻🍅🌸🦋🐌🌱 Cucumber Plant. The Cucumber is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the Gourd family that bears Cucumber fruits, which are used as vegetables. Considered an annual plant, there are three main varieties of cucumber slicing, pickling, and burpless/seedless within which several cultivars have been created. As I have a small back yard garden space, I didn't think that I would be able to grow Cucumbers, until I found out about Vertically Growing where you use a trellis for the vine to grow up instead of out as the Cucumber plant's take up a lot of valuable space. Cucumbers are full of water and they need a deep water once every 2 days or once a day when the soil is getting too dry. You can tell by popping your finger into the top of the soil and If it's wet you don't have to water. Over watering is as bad as underwatering. So check your plants first.  ...

 Hello Everyone,  Welcome to Belinda's Back Yard Gardening where begginers and expert's are welcome. Please slide on over to my Facebook page, please like and subscribe and slide on back, if I can't answer a question someone in the group can.   🐝🏵️🌻🥒🍅🥬 Belinda's Back Yard Gardening Who doesn't like the beautiful Poppy flower? There are many different varieties of Poppy and this year I have been growing some different different varieties. 🥀🥀🥀 They are very easy to grow, just put the seeds in a garden pot or in a space in your garden and water. 💦  Pests: Look out in the evenings for snails and slugs when seedlings are small, check in dark, damp, shady places where they can hang out in the daytime, they love wet, damp weather. I keep a plastic bottle from my 5 Tips on how to re use plastic bottle's post to keep baby seedlings safe. Also I recomend using Copper Tape to pop around the top of pots, it gives a small electrical charge to slugs and snails and t...

 5 Clever Hacks for Plastic bottles in the garden. Hello and welcome to Belindas Back Yard Gardening where begginers and expert's are welcome. 🐝🐝🐝 Please slide on over to my Facebook page Belindas Back Yard Gardening  like and subscribe and slide on back. 🙂 Here are  - 5 Clever Hacks for Plastic bottles in the garden.  1 - Deep Water System.💧 💦 Start by cutting off the bottom of a plastic bottle then drill holes into either the cap or neck of the bottle. Bury the bottle upside down close to a plant. The holes lie about four or 10 cm below the surface which makes deep watering so much easier because all you have to do is fill the bottle then move on to the next plant and it's a watering drive-thru by the time you're done and you can always go back up again to get a really good drenching. Especially love this technique around greedy season crops like tomatoes, cumbers, Courgettes AKA Zucchini, Squash and More. You can also slow down the rate at which the water dr...