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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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Unknown userMember
Bit of excitement there with the impending birth/s @Smc
Noticed today that some white dahlias that I thought may not have been any good have all come up. Pulled a few weeds from around them.
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member, still trying to get on top of the weeds here. Which is of concern, with fire danger season pending. Our area's still green, but the fires further north definitly focus one's attention. 😞
Not helped by the fact that both Hubby and I have been under the weather. But I did get a bed out the front weeded just now.
Bunny's settled in to her new accomodation nicely. I try to give her little "treats" such as herbs, weeds, fruit tree leaves regualrly, so that she'll be used to me popping open the top hatch. Stressed rabbits don't make good mums, and as a result, their litters can end up with low survival rates.
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Many moons ago when we lived on a lifestyle block @Smcwe took a week of annual leave so that we could do the preseason tidy up. One thing I have noticed is that if you tidy up in the garden it does seem to stay tidy for a while, indoors not so much.
Hopefully mother rabbit will soon associate your visits with treats and look forward to you lifting the hatch.
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Unknown userMember
Ongoing work continues to eliminate the running bamboo at our place as well as a little more weeding.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
need some more weeding time at mum`s garden @Former-Member , @Smc , @Adge , @Former-Member , @frog
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Unknown userMember
I find weeding therapeutic @Shaz51.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
I think I need to go myself and do it @Former-Member 
would be nice xx
i get started and then mum says " cuppa time "
and mum is talking about putting newspaper and sugar can mulch on the gardens to stop the weeds , not sure if that will work
will it @Former-Member , @Smc , @Adge , @Former-Member , @frog ????
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Unknown userMember
@Shaz51 I love sugarcane mulch and use it myself. I don't put newspaper under it so I cannot say if that would work or not.
I rather suspect if I tried putting newspaper under mulch would end up looking rather ordinary so am not tempted to give it a go.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Newspaper will work to suppress weeds @Shaz51
But it needs to be very thick (eg 10 or more layers) to stop weeds punching through from underneath (when they germinate).
Plus it breaks down quickly, when it gets wet - so won't last long.
Adge
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
so just sugar cane mulch @Adge , @Former-Member is enough xx
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