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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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SmcSenior Contributor
Put the first of my tomatoes in yesterday, and made a rustic trellis for them from garden waste. 🙂
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AdgeSenior Contributor
How inventive @Smc I like your rustic garden Trellis.
Adge
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Adge, there will be a few more of those around the garden by the time I've planted everything. 🙂
I love looking at that kind of thing online, and it's fun making them too. They get dry, brittle and unstable after a year or two, but by that stage, they're perfect kindling for our woodstove.
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Unknown userMember
Back in the garden weeding today and have a full green bin and a left over pile of weeds. Am thinking of asking our friend if he would be so kind as to bring his trailer around to take a green load to the tip for composting.
We moved a large flat rock that seemed to be an unusual feature in the garden and transplanted some sparaxis bulbs into a desirable spot (plants had died back).
We also planted a punnet of petunia "antique" flowers in one gap. The love in the mist has started to flower and it is white.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
Sounds good my @Former-Member
Hello @Smc , @Adge , @Bow , @Sophie1 , @Anastasia , @Emelia8 , @Appleblossom
Pur new hedge plants are growing even though the cat next door has been digging in the garden
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BowSenior Contributor
Full green bin- last month since moving into our new place. Currently full with a large pile waiting and a few big bags to empty into it too.
I put some veggie seedlings in yesterday and repotted some plants.
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Unknown userMember
Yikes @Shaz51 my Mum had a lot to say about some unwanted feline visits to her yard and in particular one neighbourhood cat who didn't "dig and bury" but regularly left a calling card. The family moved so it is no longer a problem for her.
@Bow what veg did you get in?
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BowSenior Contributor
@Former-Member few different lettuces, cucumber, tomatoes, beans, snow peas, spring onions, capsicum, carrots (littles ones choice). Hopefully they will of survived the downpour we had yesterday arvo and the heat wave we are suppose to get early in the week.
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Unknown userMember
Sounds lovely @Bow the harvest potential is palpable.
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BowSenior Contributor
Hopefully @Former-Member always nice to be able to eat fresh salad straight from the garden
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