Self care by growing a garden

Perhaps one of these would help @Smc

This one probably fits our budget better:

@Former-Member, I'll be inheriting a glasshouse from my parents' place, once it's been emptied out and dismantled for transport. It's a big one, about 6m or so long, and I was trying to puzzle out where to fit it in... then, among Dad's pile of paraphenalia in the backyard I found a couple of extra gables and enough framework to rebuild it as two smaller glasshouses. So my sister and I are each taking "half a glasshouse". 🙂 I expect it will be a great help.

Hi @Former-Member @Smc

I'm trying to think of ways i can spice my garden up and make some more changes. I got a few ideas. I've pruned all the low branches of the elm tree off. And I've just left a little piece of growth on a 2 1/2 metre stem. My plan is for it to grow into a big shade tree that i can sit under.

I'm umming and arring about either letting the fig tree grow into a massive tree for shade and ornament or keeping it pruned and trimmed, for a food plant; as per guide on YouTube.

I'm thinking i focus on what i got rather then adding extra. As once there's a big tree there. It takes an awful lot of work to prune or remove.

I have let go of the idea of having a food forest/pure edibles garden. Although all trees and plants have medicinal or other purposes. I've got ideas that I've been wanting to put into practise for along time. And i think i gotta just go with it rather then adding additional bright ideas that never come to fruition. Plus. WHEN dealing with plant and trees and moving and pruning stuff. It's wise to get it right the first time.

Looking after what we have can be a job in itself @eudemonism.

I am looking at ways to make our garden easier to manage. I had big plans ...

Finishing a section properly before moving onto another has been a problem for me @eudemonism.

@Former-Member, it's hard having to revise or let go of big plans. 😞 At present, I'm hoping ours for both garden and house makeovers are only "on hold", but they've been that way much longer than we expected or wanted them to. We have been thinking in terms of what happens as we get older. We've had a big heads up on that via my parents. At present, grass/dirt paths with plants spilling over the edges are fine. By the time we hit 70...80..?? (depends how well we hold up, who knows?) it might be wiser to have paved paths and raised beds.

Have spent today with dirty fingers. Hubby, Sister and self are making another trailer-in-tow trip to our parents' place, so I'm trying to get a few more things into the ground where they won't be so prone to drying out. Am expecting that the trailer will come back with more plants. (Mum's bromeliads that I brought back last time are sending out flower shoots. 😄 )

@Smc am hoping that we can get our place lower maintenance and have a beautiful garden. I think once we get a few more hedging plants in and the ones we have join together there will be less room for weeds (we have spaced all plants so when mature they will fill their beds and will not need clipping so some still have air between them). The trees are the same, I hope that I have spaced them adequately so when mature they will not impinge on pathways. The trees are starting to grow really well now, some up to a metre in the last year.

Our garden looking heaps tidier now that the bulk of the lawn mowing has been done. Mr Darcy used the old mower which was back from service and I had a shorter stint getting a section done with the new mower.

Are you a gardener @sunflowers?

I think the key to getting our garden done is going to be like other goals I have been able to achieve @Smc @eudemonism, that is dividing the job into small sections and persistent effort - doing a little bit on a regular basis.