Self care by growing a garden

It does, @Former-Member. 🙂 It's a big job, but the results at the end of each effort are visible. 🙂

I've now gotten the weeds out next to a shed, and I'll be putting a timber stack there, raised up on some besser blocks to keep it well off the ground. That will also give me a neat and tidy contained area to store some of my flowerpots. I have a lot of those... too many. So I might even see if the ones I really want to use will fit into that area and give the others away. (Maybe plus a few extras to use for plants I'm giving away, so that I can hang onto the ones I prefer.)

Plastic flowerpots accumulate all too easily. The lady who we bought this house off was collecting pots with the intention of selling plants, and left her stash here for us to use. I gave away a lot before we came here, but kept a stash of my preferred ones. And I was selling plants for a while, so I accumulated more for that... and Mum used to sell plants, so there's a big stockpile of pots at their house too. But the "good news" is that they're one of those things that disappear really fast if you put them out at the front fence along with posting a "come and get them!" on a local facebook page. 😛

I will most definitely be keeping all my lovely terracotta pots.

Hi @Fuzz

Come and meet some fellow gardeners.

@Smc love terracotta pots

Had a productive session in the kitchen garden today planting out seeds and seedlings in the onion and cabbage families.

Am loving the square foot gardening method but realise I have a bit to learn as to creating diversity in the beds, as there were 2 cabbages and caulis in each section of a 6 punnet I did end up with a few more plants than expected.

Did a bit more tidying up in the yard. Did not take long to almost full our green bin.

Took some friends out to show them our garden beds only to see one or both of our hounds had jumped up onto our raised bed and disgraced themselves with two unwanted deposits on our onion seedlings 😵😵😵.

@Former-Member, I've got one spot in the garden that's sporting very clearly demarked wallaby footprints. 😛 They regularly leave other "calling cards" too, but wallaby poo is a safer fertiliser than dog, so I just watch where I step....

@Cilla

Would love to hear how your veg patch is coming along.

Caught up with a friend at a garden centre this week and we both got some seedlings (taking advantage of the 5 for the price of 4). I came home with 2 punnets of ranunculus (potted up until I know what colour they are) and a punnet of cornflowers (planted in cottage garden).

Managed to get a few more unwanted plants dug up in readiness for collection by someone who can use them.

Brief electricity power out this morning, took the opportunity to borrow the neighbours green bin and fill it.

Additionally I planted the remaining two gyspophila plants we had left, prompted by the mess our pup made with the plant he had brought indoors so that he could chew on the container. Further investigations revealed he had got into our potted collection and the 6 plants I had in tubestock were gone. Mr Darcy told me today he rescued one plant on Sunday and had put it up , so that one and the one I resucued from today's misdemeanour were put in ground. Heavier plants and those potted up in terracotta were ok.