Skip to main content

My Little Garden in Dubai

Search This Blog

HOME
GARDENING NOTIONS
DOWNLOADS
LINKS

Posts

The Soil Matters - basic soil mix recipe

September 25, 2018

desert Dubai gardening Gardening in desert gardening in heat gardening in hot climate gardening in Middle East how to organic soil soil mix UAS

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

September Gardening Calendar

September 19, 2018

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

We’re featured on the 100 Dubai blogs to read in 2018

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Shop for your plants online now, with 20% discount

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Disclaimer

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Two guides I think you may like to read

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

How to start your seeds (transplants) and succeed

February 06, 2018

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

We are on Instagram

January 30, 2018

Dubai organic gardening Gardening in desert gardening in heat how to garden instagram Middle East organic UAE

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

My garden now, updates January 2018

January 20, 2018

desert gardening Gardening in desert gardening in Dubai gardening in hot climate how to garden in Dubai how to garden in UAE organic gardening

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Updated - Useful Downloads page

January 16, 2018

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Updated Post: 12 steps to successful garden in Dubai

January 16, 2018

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Upcoming Seed Exchange meetup

January 13, 2018

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Seed Swap/Exchange Event

December 04, 2017

gardening in the desert organic gardening Dubai UAE seed swap exchange

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Yana: Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Hi, I'm Yana and I love gardening, yoga, sewing and crafting. I also make natural soaps.

Popular Posts

12 steps to a successful garden in Dubai

I have updated this post a bit since writing it back in 2014. I have learned a few things since then and have experimented a lot. There aren't many updates, but those minor updates are worth publishing. 1) Planting Time Start planting at the right time of the year. Plants need time to adjust and adapt to the new environment. When you buy plants from the nursery 90% of the time they had been kept under the shade cloth and not in direct sunlight. In order to thrive they first need to adjust to the sun levels. They also need to grow roots. When you buy too late into the year (actually I mean growing season, that is closer to late spring) plants don't have enough time to adapt and many plants either die or struggle, because they don't know where to put their energy into - growing roots or handling the sun. This is my personal observation. It doesn't mean you can't buy anything in spring but if it was me I'd wait till around September-October, actually preferably...

The Soil Matters - basic soil mix recipe

Hello my fellow gardeners, Today I’d like to briefly talk to you about soil and how do we create the perfect soil mix. This is one of the questions I receive most often. I grew up in Russia, as some of you may know already. We lived in a part of Russia where soil is called “chernozem”. It is a kind of soil with black color and contains high percentage of humus. It is very fertile and is sometimes called black gold. I grew up thinking that all soils around the world are black and when I took up gardening I had no idea that things can be otherwise. You can imagine my surprise when I found out that there are many different types of soils around the world. Turns out not only the color of soils differ but the composition too. I won’t go into details about soil composition and types of soils in this post, will leave it for later.. Soils can be of three major types: sand, clay and silt. Different combination of these make the soils around the world. In this part of the world we have ...

Sweet soil or sweet sand???

So if you've been gardening for sometime you must have heard about sweet soil aka sweet sand. Wait. They are the same thing? I thought so. Didn't you? Well it turns out the two terms are used interchangbly but in reality refer to totally different things. Read this article to find out more about the difference and what each is.

Archive

2025 1
- July 1
  - Welcome Back, July Calendar, and Jump-Planting Seeds.

2019 7
- October 2
- August 1
- June 2
- March 1
- February 1
2018 15
- December 2
- October 1
- September 2
- July 1
- June 3
- February 1
- January 5
2017 6
2016 11
- October 3
- September 2
- August 3
- March 1
- February 1
- January 1
2015 24
- November 1
- August 2
- May 1
- March 13
- February 2
- January 5
2014 29

Show more Show less

Labels

African marigold
arugula
Beit Alfa
bird netting
bok choy
broccoli
budget gardening
calendar
Chinese cabbage
cicory

Show more Show less

INSTAGRAM

OUR INSTAGRAM PAGE

Subscribe

Posts

Posts

All Comments

All Comments

Have Questions? Contact Us

Name

Email *

Message *

Report Abuse

Powered by Blogger