🌺 Hive Community Garden Journal Challenge - May

What's going on in your (indoor) garden, on your balcony, in your homestead or on your farm this month? Let us take a peek and maybe you'll win one of the prizes.

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Getting There

After the cat died on May 11th, I didn't feel like doing anything. I completely neglected everything, the garden included. Earlier this week, I managed to get myself going again. These last couple of days, I've been busy planting out all my seedlings.
Slowly but steady (my back is still not good enough to work more than an hour at a time in the garden), it's all coming together.

I completely messed up my plans to not overdo it this year, lol. The greenhouse is looking pretty full already, even though most plants are still very small. (I've taken some pics, which I'll show you in a next post.) There's still a lot of work to be done outside of the greenhouse, though. I hope to be able to get most of my veggies in the ground some time this weekend.

I'm still fighting the ants invasion. There seem to be thousands of those creepy little bastards that decided to move into my raised beds. And the more I get annoyed by them, the more I see. (I guess it's like pregnant ladies see other pregnant ladies everywhere - I'm so obsessed by those ants I see them wherever I look. 😂)
After literally trying every (organic) trick in the book, I finally decided to buy some nematodes that are supposed to make sure the ants will move their nests elsewhere. The problem is that I need to keep the ground moist all the time for 2 to 4 weeks. Since we're experiencing the hottest and driest spring in over 100 years, that's definitely not an easy job. I can't even remember what rain looks like - and that's coming from someone living in rainy Belgium. 😆
I'm trying my best, and keeping my fingers crossed that it works.

Anyway... It's that time of the month again...

Welcome to the Hive Community Garden Journal Challenge, which encourages you to share your monthly (indoor) garden/balcony updates with your the community and create your own garden journal.

A Shoutout To Our Previous Contributors.

As always, a little shoutout to the previous participants. We've had different gardeners joining this challenge in every edition. The participants' base follows the seasons in the different parts of the world.

@abitcoinskeptic, @briarch, @astrizak, @nikv, @porters, @enjar, @fotostef, @sayee, @proto26, @plantstoplanks, @nikolina

I'm inviting all of them to post another update in their personal garden journal.

I also want to invite @zekepickleman, who already posted an entry yesterday.

Off course this challenge is open for everyone who is growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, succulents or any other plants, indoors or outdoors.

If you haven’t joined before, feel free to start now. The more the merrier! There are plenty of people who are enjoying to see what's going on in other people's garden, farm or balcony.

(It's great to see the #gardenjournal tag being used by people throughout the month. Even though I haven't been around much, I try to follow up on all posts that use the tag, even outside of this monthly challenge.)

The Challenge

The rules haven't changed:

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Please also include a link back to this challenge somewhere in your post.

You can include whatever you want in your post, but please remember that the pictures should be the most important aspect of your post.

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Show us how your plants, herbs, flowers, succulents or vegetables are doing. Share what you’ve been doing in your garden, on your farm or on your balcony. Don't forget to let us know if you are dealing with things like fungus, caterpillars, aphids, and - even more important - hów you’re dealing with those.

In short, tell us the story of your garden.

🏆 Rewards

As always, all entry posts will receive an upvote from my personal account.

When this post reaches payout, I will select the two entries that I liked most.

I’ll reward the top 2 posts with a 10 Hive prize.

I will also choose 2 random participants who will each receive 2 Hive

Prizes will be given out once I get the winners post up, which will be after this post has reached payout. Make sure you submit your entry before that time.

Grab That Camera

Are you still reading? What are you waiting for? Grab that camera and go make some awesome pics of your (indoor) garden, your balcony or wherever you are growing your plants, herbs, flowers or crops.

Show off your green thumb, or the lack of it, and create another chapter in your very own garden journal for 2020.

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I'll can't wait to see your updates!

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