Challenging Arts & Crafts: June 2015

a dog walk and another wildflower bouquet...

This small strip of land along the Marchfeld Kanal is what I call "nature at its best".

This area is actually hidden and only a few locals know the place as well as

hobby fishers trying to make a catch for the day. We used to walk

Ako here (my rottie) and now it´s Lily´s turn.

Lily as it seems, is afraid of the water for she has seen it for the first time in her life.

She wouldn´t even come near the bank and would refuse to move by means

of sitting down on the spot as her protest!

My mom in-law went to a special home and Lily can´t go with her so

we have to take care of this spoiled but

lovable brat. LOL!

It´s lovely to come here, so peaceful and is 100% untouched nature.

The onion and potato fields are located on the slope of this area. And from there,

you can see part of Vienna´s 22nd District skyline.

In June, most of the smaller wildflowers have now dried-up

and salvias are popping out in arrays along the

onion fields waiting to be viewed or to be picked....

and so, salvias became my materials

for today´s bouquet!

The jug I used for this arrangement was a lucky find yesterday while I was

combing the local flea market in our area. I think it looks

good with the flowers in it.

Have a good start of the week dear friends!

xoxo,

Mercy

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container gardening - 2015

Hello everyone!

It´s the time of the year that my top terrace turns into a sea of greens...

It´s where I have my container plants, mostly

vegetables. I love to garden here and it´s

a safe area, free from slugs!

Now that it´s very hot in our city, my container veggies are all thriving vigorously.

I planted three dozens of salad greens and they

are now ready for harvesting anytime...

Year after year, I grow them in cracker containers

and they seem to love this

kind of culture in pots.

For the first time, I´m growing Hokkaido squash, these small ones are

very aromatic and sweet in taste.. Two seasons ago,

I grew a real big squash that weighed almost 10 kilos

as you can see in the pic below...

You can see how it developed into a 10 kilo

squash here.

And so, I´m just in the beginning of the Hokkaido squash growing

which I hope would yield plenty of squash to harvest..

I sowed around a dozen green beans and this is also a first time for me.
They are just so easy to grow!

Zucchini is also in the program this season and I´m enjoying to see the first fruit.

The raspberry bush was planted last summer and true to what the gardener

at the garden center said that it will start bearing

fruits one year after...

My strawberries come and go... it´s this particular worm that eats-up the

shoot of the mother plant... and I´m glad that this time,

the shoots survived from last year and even developed newbies...

As I have 3 dozens of empty cracker containers, I planted each with one salad green
and the result is just good enough for one salad head..

I grow parsley from seeds and it´s always fun to see them becoming bigger especially
when new life emerges out of the seeds sown til they show the first leaf.

Bell peppers are the most robust container vegetable I´ve ever known. You plant it in a pot...
....water everyday and feed once in a while and it will
yield many fruits.