Gardening at Home Strawberries Tomatoes Watermellon Roses Polytunnel Snails GIO Landscapes

After finishing weeding, I needed to finish planting the tomatoes and watermelon sprouts, which I was growing from seeds after eating the fruit, sprouting them in the little seed tray like babies, that looks like a tiny greenhouse from the Ferrero Rocher chocolates box.
I've planted the tomatoes and watermellon by the roses that would give them semi shade, so not too much sun through the day as they would just dry out too much and not have much fruit. Even though need more sunlight for plant's photosynthesis, but unfortunately it's also too hot and would require a lot of watering that I wouldn't be able to keep watering them so much in the full sun. So I've reduced how much sun light they get by the shade of the rose, but that also increases the moisture level in the soil requiring much less watering, that results in lusher plants, more fruit and better quality (not cracked and dry tomatoes from full sun). That's why if appropriate, it's good to plant the garden area thick, for better moisture retention in the soil from shade of close by plants. But not too close so they don't interfere with each other. In my garden the tomatoes will grow up the bamboo stems around the rose, which I think is basically at the limit of how close the plants can be to each other without having a detrimental effect on each other, but instead symbiotic, or helpful to each other.
After planting, I have sprinkled the wood chips around that was used for my pets' bedding or could have used straw instead like the one used in horse stables. But I've had the woodchips available so used those as an organic and non toxic pesticide slug and snail repellent in an environmentally friendly manner, as an alternative to slug pellets or salt. Otherwise the slugs and snail would eat the tomato sprouts and the strawberries. It's also good to have the strawberries fruit resting on woodchips or straw so they don't rot on the ground or get eaten by earwigs and other little insects on the ground.
Then watered the established strawberries and the newly planted little sprouting tomatoes and the watermelon. I've used the hose and luckily we don't have the hose pipe ban for conservation of water at the moment yet. Would have been better to use water out of a rain water butt, but at this flat the gutters from the roof are not accessible to connect a rain water butt.
So as they are just starting to grow, of course they are tiny sprouts for now, but should grow huge. The soil is great as the plant leaves decompose each year and feed the soil, so no need for fertiliser, but just water.
I wanted to be friendlier to slugs and snails lately, instead of squashing or throwing them viciously as I did before and other people do or slug pellets that kill them, as they eat my nice plants, fruit and veg, because I've made a deal with God about less evil and violence in the world. Also with Mr Putin's Russian forces attacking Ukraine and committing all of those terrible and violent atrocities and riots and other violence around the world. I was feeling guilty about purposely and viciously killing slugs and snails as I did before and had to stop. I now also feel a bit guilty when I accidentally step on a snail and squash it, which probably hurts it.
Kind regards, Ilia Gofman
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