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A SOS to any green thumbs out there
I have always found gardening to be therapeutic and it has given me great joy. However, after a major crisis with Mr Darcy's health I have not had been able to get back into it. Have other gardeners suffered from a similar hiatus and how have you recovered and got going again?
Darcy
PS have a spot that needs filling any recommendations for a 1m high cool climate white flower plant?
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Picked the first of our cherry tomatoes today 😀.
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Love to hear about your gardening adventures here @Tufftimes
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Made it to garden club this week, the first time in a long time.
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SmcSenior Contributor
Garden Club day here is one of my big "self care" things @Former-Member. I very jealously defend its date each month.
Ours is a friendly bunch, and I know of at least one occasion where our good reputation got us entry to a lovely garden that wasn't often opened up to groups. It was one that has featured on Gardening Australia (TV and magazine articles) and it was in the Australian Open Gardens schedule a few years back. 🙂
(I'm the "junior" member of the group... have been ever since I joined it nearly 19 years ago.)
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In a transition phase re: garden with house on market @Smc . Not wanting to spend too much on it, but seeing how a few more plants in a number of spots would improve visual appeal greatly. Our newer hedge plantings are only just starting to take off, but still too small to shade out the weeds. I might throw around some more annual flower seeds but have not had a great deal of success with them.
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Mr Darcy moved the large pile of weeds in our front yard into the chook pen. Once the grass grows a bit the area will be ascetically more pleasing (and not off putting to a potential buyer).
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SmcSenior Contributor
I got a couple more silverbeet plants in today, and another little batch of Egyptian Onions. Also did some pruning.
Cool (cold, actually) weather predicted for tomorrow, so the new plantings will like that. The toms, basil and capsicums that are still going may not be so happy.
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SmcSenior Contributor
Shuffled through a spot where I'd planted Elephant Garlic last year, found six full sized bulbs starting to put out new roots, and seven little baby bulbils. Got a fresh spot ready for those and replanted them, and put two silverbeet plants in their old spot.
I planted the garlic/perennial onions too late in the season last year. They didn't do too badly, but weren't as big as they could have been. Hoping that earlier plantings this year will give them the time to develop properly.
Oooh, and I spotted the Dutch Irises starting to shoot up today! 😄 They haven't flowered yet for me, but I recently lifted them, added composty stuff to the soil and replanted, so hoping maybe this year.
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You are on roll @Smc. The best I have been able to do is a bit of spraying.
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