Good day to everyone on Hive and especially the Hive Gardeners! I am Zak Ludick from Cape Town, South Africa and this is my Gardening update.

As was promised to @pixelhuntersam and @lex-zaiya, we are all supposed to do 1x gardening post per week at least till the end of the year.

This will keep us all posting and keep us all active in our gardens!

The purpose of my fenced-off piece of the garden is to be a veggie garden. Of course, this will include anything that is edible as well as those plants that help and protect your crops!

Let's see how I did!

New plants!

I am germinating from seed, but I want things growing in the garden right now! So this is where is begins! Garden Mint, Spearmint, Parsley, Tomatoes and Marigolds!

Parsley

The Spearmint is the tall mint plant with the thinner leaves. This mint is almost like a basil mint.

Ordinary tomato plants. I would like to get some of the mini tomatoes. I grew a lot of those in the past. Let's see who these go.

First things first, I needed to enrich that box of soil I built last week. I added a bag of compost from the nursery and some potting soil to the box after wetting the box.

I then turned this soil in this box before planting these plants out.

Marigolds are a plant-defence item! These flowers attract various insects to your garden that predate on the insect that eat your plants!

The Spectator!

As soon as I started working in the garden for about 30mins a little yellow bird came by to sing. I whistled back at it and it replied to my whistles even though it looked right at me while singing.

I hope to see it again sometime.

Onwards to planting!

Digging some holes simply with my hands I formulated my planting pattern!

So in the right hand corner I made a big hole...

And planted the Spearmint there.

When I took them out of the pots, the root system had already creeped all over the bottom of the pot. Without hurting and snapping off too many roots, I loosened the soil and roots a little and then planted it.

I then moved on to the other mint that I would plant on the left side. The Tomatoes took a row next to the gate and the Marigold provide a shield to the plants in the box. The parsley also joined the left hand side.

Completed Job!

Mass Germination Project

The Green Pepper seedlings I seeded... did not have good success. Few of them germinated and of those which managed to germinate, were sickly.

I am now playing Nature's game and throwing out the massive numbers! Let's see what happens. I plan on germinating all the seeds I own. I need a lot of plants!

Until Next time.

Cheers!
@zakludick

Hive South Africa