The editors of Ogorod.ru called out to their subscribers with a request to share the best photos of their harvest this season. The amount of beauty in this collection is off the charts!
We thank all the readers of our portal who filled our pages on social networks and editorial mail with beautiful photographs of their gardens, vegetable gardens and pets (where would we be without these four-legged helpers!).
We have such a wonderful “photo album”!
Garden decoration
A beautiful garden in a country house can be separated from the house and yard by a low-growing hedge. For a living and useful fence, Japanese quince, cinquefoil, thunberg and admiration barberry, rose hips, hawthorn, black currant, golden currant, alpine currant, St. John's wort, gooseberry, and mahonia holly are quite suitable. These shrubs tolerate pruning well and can be used to form any original borders or fences.
With vegetables of different colors you can create a whole artistic canvas in your summer cottage. Anyone can do this. However, when creating such a flower garden, it is necessary to take into account several factors necessary for the planned garden to bring joy and benefit, to be beautiful and productive.
Let's look at a few tips for decorating a garden at your dacha, which will help you easily and simply achieve excellent results and harvests.
Before you begin to directly draw up a plan for laying out your garden plots, you should take into account that vegetables need a sunny place, protected from northern winds (you can protect the beds with a taller hedge, made of evergreen shrubs).
It is necessary to leave space for a compost heap, which can be decorated with herbaceous perennials (sage, lavender, St. John's wort oregano, etc.), and low-growing shrubs.
The place for the garden should not be located far from the irrigation system. Be sure to observe crop rotation in beautiful beds.
Generous garden and fruitful vegetable garden
Our editors were especially struck by the photographs of Lyudmila Simikina from Omsk . The carrot harvest alone is amazing!
The giant tomato variety Yusupovsky was grown by Evgenia Goldobina from Irkutsk .
Maria Čimerová-Kaptola from Prague collected a miracle harvest .
But what an exquisite still life from a country harvest was created by Kirill Zharankov from Minsk .
Wonderful photo of the harvest by Nikolai N.V. from Moscow :
Andrey and Valentina Chulyukin from Nyagan had a great success with their tomatoes this year .
Zucchini “attacked” the plot of Natalie Mercedes from Lipetsk .
Excellent tomatoes of unusual varieties were sent by Alena Nikolaenko from Kharkov .
Elena Martynova from Tula pleased us with cute tomatoes of the Flyashentomat variety, as well as very photogenic pumpkin and red cabbage.
This year Irina Kuznetsova from Krasnoyarsk .
The bow was no worse for Vitaly Medyntsev from Mezhdurechensk .
Valentina Zhirnova from Yekaterinburg collected a wonderful harvest of tomatoes, peppers, onions and garlic .
Neat beds of Natalia Gvozdeva from Moscow :
The generous garden of Svetlana Gorb :
Evgeny Igoshin from the village can boast of wonderful strawberries and wonderful tomatoes Arkhangelskoye (Shabalinsky district, Kirov region).
Reader Oksana Petrichenko pleased us with a beautiful pumpkin still life.
Natalia Ivanova from Chisinau recommends Butternut pumpkin to everyone. We don't know what it tastes like, but it looks great!
Nina Melchakova from Menzelinsk also has a wonderful pumpkin and squash harvest .
Marina Malysheva from Moscow shared a delicious berry and vegetable composition.
Yulia Korko from Gorlovka sent photos of her beds and an excellent harvest.
Katerina Belaya from St. Petersburg has worked hard this season!
Ivan the Russians grew beautiful corn.
And Svetlana Subbocheva from Nizhny Novgorod has sunflowers.
Some of our subscribers have ripe grapes. For example, Elianna Margarita from Latvia .
From Natalia Proskurina-Vaulina from Riga :
And from Natalia Bogdanovich from Moscow:
By the way, Natalya has a very beautiful greenhouse, which is managed by the main vegetable grower - the cat Dusya.
Marina Goryacheva from Rostock (Germany) grows cucumbers in a barrel.
You’ve definitely never seen beets like Igor Savkov’s from Moscow
And Evgenia Titorova actually harvested mushrooms at her dacha!
Tatyana Vznuzdaeva from Moscow are no worse .
Paths
The paths between the beds should not be overgrown with weeds and take a lot of time to weed; it is better to cover them. There are various options for equipping paths - turfing with lawn grass that is resistant to trampling, covering with tiles, gravel, and broken bricks.
To prevent weeds from growing through them, first you need to lay geotextiles or roofing felt that does not transmit light on the paths, and then crushed stone, gravel, stone chips, and other material on top of it.
There are various ready-made slabs for garden paths on sale - rubber, plastic, or special roll coverings. Another option is a covering made from plastic bottle caps, which can also serve as a massage mat.
How to treat wooden fences for garden beds.
The question often arises of how to treat boards for garden beds to make them last longer. Such boards cannot be treated with chemicals that can harm you and your plants. Therefore, neither ordinary drying oil, nor used machine oil, nor ordinary wood antiseptics are suitable here. Natural drying oil is environmentally friendly, but it is expensive.
For the same reasons, avoid making the edges of your beds out of slate, plastic or rubber. Some brands of these materials emit toxic substances. And it seems impossible even for a professional chemist to determine whether the slate you are planning for the garden bed is harmful or not.
The most economical option for processing wooden fences for garden beds FOR THE MONEY. On the inside of the board, generously treat it with copper sulfate (you can directly dip it into it), and on the outside it is enough to whiten it with lime. This option can last up to 15 years.
The most economical option for wooden fences for beds IN TIME. Terrace boards are quite expensive, but contain all the necessary protection against rotting. It will serve as a fence for the garden bed for decades.
But as the practice of summer residents shows, even used boards taken for the box of a bed without any treatment will easily serve for 5-6 years.
Watering
When creating a decorative vegetable garden, it is necessary to properly consider watering methods, which is very important especially in dry seasons.
The most popular method is watering from a hose with a sprayer. You can use various containers (for example, plastic bottles) that are dug into the soil; from small holes, water will seep directly to the roots.
Another method is drip. A pipe with small holes is laid in the box as the box itself is laid, then connected to the main hose or pipe. Drip irrigation greatly saves time, effort and water consumption. Nowadays, special stores sell ready-made kits for drip irrigation.
Useful ideas
To make plants feel comfortable in such beautiful, original beds and to reap good harvests, you can use some secret little things. However, little things help a lot in caring for the garden and growing your favorite plants:
- It is good to add hydrogel to the soil of vertical beds - it will not dry out quickly, but will retain moisture longer
- It is useful to plant marigolds, nasturtiums and other neighboring flowers next to vegetables, which naturally protect other plants from pests
- If suddenly there are ants in the beds, you can plant a celandine bush directly into the anthill - the ants will leave
- It’s good to put a net on the bottom of the box beds - moles won’t spoil the plantings
- After harvesting vegetables, it’s good to immediately sow green manure in the beds
- mustard – quickly produces green mass, disinfects the soil, gets rid of wireworms, supplies nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium
- rapeseed - structures and loosens the soil, which helps plant roots breathe and increases moisture capacity
- lupine - gives a lot of green mass, enriches the soil with nitrogen, loosens the soil, repels the larvae of the May beetle, mole cricket and other soil pests with its roots
- vetch and oats enrich the soil with nitrogen and potassium
- next to vegetables, you can plant honey plants in the beds (white clover, coltsfoot, lungwort, mint, lemon balm, borage, phacelia), which will attract bees, which will ensure pollination of flowers to increase the yield
- the mole cricket does not like parsley, marigolds, or calendula; by planting them around the perimeter, you can protect your garden
Luxurious flower garden
The harvest is a harvest, but no garden will bring as much peace of mind as a beautiful flower garden!
These are the spectacular tuberous begonias grown by Lyubov Fedorova from St. Petersburg .
A real miracle of landscape design on the site of Olga Komarova from Moscow .
This is an incomparable still life of flowers created by Nikolaus Lazarevas from Ukmerge in Lithuania.
Mila Kolodrivskaya from Kiev grows charming cucumber grass on her plot.
We really liked the clematis of Elena Khokhlova from Moscow .
country flowers from Dnieper , Ukraine.
But what wonderful nymphs grow in the decorative pond on the property of Olga Sablina from Moscow .
Flower garden of Irina Nikolaeva from Belarus .
Photo by Irina Makushina from Russia :
Dahlias Marina Rabinovich from Yaroslavl :
Container garden of Irina Ushakova from the village of Pokrovka, Kaluga region :
Foxgloves by Inna Lvova from Kaluga :
The cold summer did not allow Tatyana Logushko’s sunflowers from Zheleznodorozhny , but how beautiful they look in a bouquet!
Another luxurious bouquet from Erkebulan Ormanbekov from Almaty .
This magical rose bloomed all summer for Nadiya Poland from Kiev . As our reader said, she collected 2 kg of petals from it, which made fragrant jam.
