Who else likes gardening?

[ecomama]

Hi everyone

I hope you're staying well today.

Who else likes gardening? I would love to connect with people here who are happy to share their gardening adventures.

For me I know that gardening helped heal my soul during tough times. I hope it will again.
Then with other things going on, it became a jungle.
I'm part way into rediscovering it again and doing A LOT of hard yakka atm, when I am motivated.

I have new dreams and ideas to put into the many bare places, as I remove thickets of lantana etc. This will all be on a tight budget and I'm ok with that.

I want to create a peaceful place where I can be.
I would like to grow food again (tell 'er she's dreamin' atm lol).
I would like to re-establish my worm farms and compost heaps.
Autumn is such a beautiful time of the year in the garden.

I'm 'alone' in my gardening journey and would love to share and hear about other's gardening antics. Hopefully we can troubleshoot any issues in our gardens and talk about any healing we're feeling too. There's a lot of knowledge we can share. I hope this thread can brighten your day!

Love Ecomama

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[Lillylane]

Hi EM

Lovely to hear from you as always and it sounds like you’re making wonderful progress with your garden.

I might have to rethink my composting arrangement. I have one of those tumbler-style ones off the ground. It’s ok until there’s a lot in there and then it becomes difficult to turn.

Thinking to get one of those big round ones that sit on the ground with a lid. And the worms could get in there too.

Lots of Autumn colour around atm 🙂

[Matchy69]

Hi Lillylane I will get back to you with that rose name.I bought 3 years ago from BigW bare rooted.

[Matchy69]

Hi Lilly Lane the rose in my profile picture is Floribunda Angel Face and yes it is very fragrant.I have tags on my roses and fruit trees that I have planted that I have made out of aluminium cans so I can always identify my plants.

[Lillylane]

Ah! Thank you Mark. I thought it might have been Angel Face. It’s an amazing and unique colour. Beautiful!

[Matchy69]

I lose track of names their is so many out there.This one is certainly one of my favourites,just love the colour.

[Gambit87]

I had a moment the other day, The universe has been speaking to me lately haha.

One of my roses wasnt looking so good and getting attacked by chilli thrips. I trimmed the affected parts and I thought 'maybe if I move it to a new position it might get a little extra light' so I moved it and gave it a bit of seasol

few days later it started growing back! and its coming back pretty strong.

I was thinking about how this could apply to me/life in general really - sometimes I need to remember to take a step back, give myself some TLC and I too will grow like this rose bush.

amazing stuff.

[Jstar49]

Hi all,

I love that little story Gambit! Truly, the garden goddess was speaking to you!

My garden is giving me rocket, and cabbage atm. It survived the onslaught, no slugs despite all the rain we've had! So pleased! I've bought some red cabbage seedlings to give them a go. No time for seed raising atm.

The tomatoe plants are doing well, altho it's been a dry wind and we've not been used to watering, so I may lose one which was in a half buried pot. The slow cool weather growth makes it much easier to keep up with jobs in the garden!

Cheers,

J*

[Matchy69]

Hi all I picked my neighbours Cumquats and made marmalade and it turned out absolutely perfect.Now I just have to do some pruning for her while she is over in New Zealand.

In my garden I have had the best crop of mandarins bush lemons.I need to make some lemonade and Tangelos are almost ready for picking so more marmalade on the way.I been starting to pick my cabbages as well.

Happy gardening,

Mark.

[Matchy69]

Hi all we had a nice wet day here yesterday and now we get followed up by some nice cold winds today.Some of my deciduous trees have lost all their leaves while others have still got all there leaves like my mulberry tree and my mystery tree at the front.While my nectarine tree has lost all its leaves yet my neighbours one still have all its leaves.Very interesting observing things that seem to make no sense in the garden.Dose anyone else notice anything unusual happening in the garden?

Take care,

Mark.

[ecomama]

Hi Mark and happy BB Gardeners 😁🖐🌺🌴🍀🌈

Yes! Us too Mark, I've noticed the same thing happening here with my deciduous trees.
I have no idea why and have talked with my kids and friends about it too - no idea at all.

My Mystery Tree (wonder if you and I have the SAME Mystery Tree? lol) has ALMOST lost all it's leaves.
My Nectarine lost all it's leaves ages ago and is getting a few blossoms! I'm like what??

The Crepe Myrtles in the back yard lost all their leaves ages ago BUT my 3 in the front garden only just LAST week began to lose their leaves in any bucketful form lol.
The only difference between these 2 sets of trees is a few metres location difference but the ones in the front garden are considerably younger than the back yard trees.

Yes! Same with the citrus. We have hundreds of lemons and they're huge. They're also really sweet for the first time ever. So sweet that the possums are eating them this year lol. The only things I think are different is that I hired a gardener to prune this tree about this time last year, I cut down ALL the lantana choking it lol, recently I took away all sorts out of the ground like broken bricks etc and I raked the ground around this tree so it was clear. It's barely rained here for months but whatever water hits the soil may get down to the roots now?

My oranges are the size of grape fruit. One orange is like TWO pieces of fruit lol.

Alexa's mandarins are going as crazy as our citrus. LOTS and huge but no where near ripe yet, we're like why?? No idea. They're very late ripening.

One thing I know is that we had a misty wet Summer. Not alot of heavy rain but consistent misty rain - VERY strange and I've never known the weather to do this. Could be after effects of Covid? Meaning alot less pollution effecting the weather.

Plus the year before our vegetation was heavily effected by the ash from endless months of bush fires.
Even though ash can suffocate our plants by covering their leaves, the ash on the SOIL is very good for everything in moderation ofcourse.
So when it was all washed off our plants, this could have had a positive effect.
I've had to wash the dirt off of our orange and lime tree's leaves.

The other thing I've noticed is no stink bugs. Great.
Very little leaf curl.

Puzzling.

Any feedback peeps?

Love EM