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Who else likes gardening?

ecomama
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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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ecomama
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Great thinking DNG, getting things happening more and more in your garden must feel great!

After work I spent a few hours in the garden until dark.

Seems like as soon as we're out of lock down, we'll have lots of people visiting.
Very strange for me!
But the kids must be very proud of how tidy things are looking at home now.

I had to level up underneath the half wine barrel more, sighhh might be an ongoing issue.
All around that patch are sweet native violets growing plus lots of weeds and grass patches too.

My chickens are starving for grass so I weeded out so much grass and fed it to them.
Cut back some shoots I don't want growing. I was going to compost all this but I'd prefer to let it die and burn it.
I trimmed my Camellia back.
Bark mulched a short path.
Weeded the whole paved side path too.

Still need to finish my coppus log terraces but I haven't been to Bunnings yet to spend my vouchers and get more materials.

I brought up 5 x 11L buckets of soil and levelled out where I'd weeded.

I've decided to bring the top water tank's hose down to the back yard as this tank always seems to collect alot more water than my back tank. I'll have to trouble shoot that issue and hopefully can remediate it myself.

Water is so expensive here that I refuse to use town water for my garden.

I'll scrub the downstairs patio with the tank water while I'm at it!
This is my kids' favourite place to hang out with their friends and all this is on the horizon again 🙂

Must go and pick up P.son from the train station now.

Happy gardening everyone!

Love EMxxxx

News flash, news flash.

Strawberry flowers have sprouted, repeat, the strawberry flowers are sprouting.

Stay tuned for more delightful news...

Yeah Yeah Yeah, clap, clap, clap DNG.

Hi Shelll, that is exactly what wife and I did. Applaud the wonderful growth!

Today i cleaned up the main vegie patch, furrowed it and wife planted potatoes over the two furrows. So much in the ground now i cant remember it all!

Really looking forward to just seeing this stuff grow.

This is a wonderful thread - gardening has magical powers for our mind, I truly believe this!

I live in a tiny block so we have very little soil to work with (plus it's a rental) but I get my fix through small efforts in the front yard.

Today I was tired and sore from sitting at my desk all day for work, I got up to get some sunshine as a break and did just 10 minutes of weeding in the sun. It lifted my mood drastically! Such a beautiful thing.

ecomama
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Hi Banksy, indeed!

How wonderful that 10 mins in your garden can drastically change your mood. Awesome!
It's so pleasant spending time in our garden spaces, no matter how small or in what capacity we do so... it's truly a wonder for our mental health and feelings of well-being.

WOW DNG, applause from here too! How sweet and exciting 🙂 Strawberry plants are the sweetest looking little things lol.
May you and your wife have many yummy escapades finding lovely strawberries to eat.

Hey Shelll.... well my half wine barrel stands proudly now due to your inspiration lol. It's only half filled with soil but looks so good where it is, so thankyou!

I hurt my back pretty badly late yesterday, in my garden. I've already had a broken back for around 30y, so most of my efforts are done rather carefully lol.
Hopefully my Chiro can put me back together this week!
I took magnesium and zinc and put lots of heat on it all night long.

I can walk tentatively today at least but with far too much discomfort lol.

What kept me company WAS.... awesome Clips on YouTube of Lawn Mowing people doing other's lawns as a GIFT!
Oh this makes my heart sing.

It's a perfect day here today. I hope you can all find wondrous things to do that make you HAPPY!

Love EMxxxx

Hi Em, Paws, Bansky, DNG, and all

My brain is scattered. Can hardly concentrate. Just read about blue tongues, raspberries, strawberries, cabins, old wine barrel ( glad you like whet you placed yours Em)

dug out anothe 2 square metres for extending the extension vegie patch! wife said, we need more... so of I go pitch fork in hand dig dig dig!

I built some wire/mesh covers for the fragile seedlings, the blackbirds are vicious, but man they eat worms in the soil as quick as i uncover them! I get the feeling I am actually just the blackbirds servants, digging up their supper.

today i gifted some sweet corn seeds to a new friend who is also a gardener.

I did no physical labour in the garden today and yep, my body has eventually recovered from the digging a few days ago... thus I am ready for more digging later today!

wife tells me we now have zuccini also. I like that i will soon be planting a fig tree, in the spot where we are removing a dangerous (too tall/old) palm tree. Thus we replace non-food tree with a food tree, and that is a bonus in my opinion.

i watered my pots this afternoon and i wept afterwards for my anxiety is strong today