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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
😄 That works @Former-Member.
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Unknown userMember
I bought quite a few packs of flower seeds today - cheap and cheerful - something to throw in after a patch has been weeded.
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SmcSenior Contributor
I weeded out the front end of the bed beside the driveway today, and piled the weeds on the bed on the other side to start smothering the ones there.
Haven't exactly decided what to plant there yet, and I want to re-do the edging before I do. I have wondered for some time about putting together a bed of "invisible edibles"- plants which can all be picked and eaten one way or another, but which people wouldn't usuallly recognise as "herbs" or "vegetables". That might be a good place to do it, as a bit of public education. 😄
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@Smc
A bed of invisible edibles = 😀
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member, these are some of the possibilities. All edible, but most people wouldn't know it. 🙂
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
I am actually more motivated and inspired with gardening around our new house. There is a big drainage ditch in one corner that is mostly unusable then on tv last night on one of the fix and flip home shows they built a rain garden. Now my mind is racing what can I do down there. This afternoon I even spent 1/2 an hour weeding out back while supervising one of our dogs settling in to his new yard. (He has been away until now). I can actually see myself out in the garden more now which will be great for self care time. 😁
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Unknown userMember
@Time
This is the carer garden thread
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TimeSenior Contributor
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@Time
Do you like growing fruit and veg? Flowers?
@Determined a rain garden sounds like a practical solution
@Smc have you seen any miniature yellow pear shaped tomatoes about? Think I got one many years ago in a punnet of four seedlings at Bunnings which had a DIggers Club label on them.
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member, I have grown them a few times, including last year. They're fairly good, but if I can get them, I like the Lemon Drop ones even more. (Another one that Diggers grows.) Slightly oval yellow cherry toms, good sweet flavour that held well both in dry heat and as the weather got cold. The Yellow Pears got a bit floury in the dry, and bitter in the cold.
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