Thursday 31 December 2015

HDYGG round up 2015

I've had great fun this year joining in with Annie and How Does Your Garden Grow. I've added a tab at the top of my blog if you're interested in reading my full HDYGG journey.

I'm living in Dubai, in a desert, we don't have sandy soil, we just have sand. I've never been big on gardening, usually I get bored and seedlings and bedding plants tended to go unwatered, so in the UK I stuck with shrubs and twice a year we'd have a 'tidy the garden' session and a couple of trips to the local tip.

One of my first photos this year was with Project 365 where I joined up photo prompts from snaphappybritmums and FMSPhotoADay.


I started noticing the colour in the streets while I was out and about exploring our new home and a visit to The Dubai Miracle Gardens had me convinced I too could achieve greatness in the empty sand and concrete garden at the villa we are renting.

We've now completed a full year in Dubai, starting and finishing in winter. I now know what to plant, where and when, I've visited places I would probably never have been or written about.

So what am I going to do for HDYGG this year? 

I don't have any travel planned this year, but I still have a few posts to write up from 2015 trip to Canada where I went camping in the wilds of Alquonguin and visited the beautiful gardens of Casa Loma in Toronto. I'll probably switch to a monthly round up of the garden, once I've caught up with all the lovely places I've visited last year. now that I am working full-time and of course there will be school planting projects I can report on, but sadly no photo's but I can try to recreate some at home.

I'll leave you with what's happening in the garden right now, we've had 2 tomatoes from the garden and there are lots more waiting to ripen, a few seeds are poking through in the pots and I'll be digging over the sand pit in the next few weeks ready to plant the seedlings out.


It would appear I'm not going to be digging alone, this bone burying of Bob's had better stop soon, or no more bones for Bob.


The municipality have been in full force also with their planting, this is the road outside the Burj Al Arab.






11 comments:

  1. Yay! success on the tomatoes - it's been iinteresting to see how you've battled the conditions there this year. And oh what I'd do for a home grown tomato right now, I've refused to buy the tasteless bullets in the shops right now, we're having green salads instead. happy new year too! x

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    1. the tomatoes are very yummy, but still can't beat a home grown south african one

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  2. Home grown tomatoes can't be beaten, I'm imagining the smell *bliss*. It was fascinating watching how you got on in 2015 with the garden and it's challenges as well as out and about in Dubai.
    Here's to a happy 2016 and onwards and upwards!

    Thank you for joining in again x

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    1. thank you Annie, I'm really hoping I can continue with a weekly link up now I'm working full time, we'll see

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  3. Home grown tomatoes can't be beaten, I'm imagining the smell *bliss*. It was fascinating watching how you got on in 2015 with the garden and it's challenges as well as out and about in Dubai.
    Here's to a happy 2016 and onwards and upwards!

    Thank you for joining in again x

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  4. those are two good looking tomatoes! i miss having our own also. happy new year!

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    1. they were lovely and a happy new year to you also

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  5. Love the taste of home grown tomatoes. Ours are long gone now. #HDYGG

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    1. the birds have taken a fancy to ours I'm afraid to say

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  6. I am so glad you have been bitten by the gardening bug and talk about choosing a difficult place to try and grow anything. I am in awe of your perseverance and like others, rather jealous of those tomatoes. I want to get mine sown but with no heat in the polytunnel I know I need to wait a bit just yet. Happy New Year and the very best of Green Fingers for 2016 :)

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    1. I've joined a face book group of gardeners in Dubai, they are rather committed and have some wonderful crops on the go

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