Self care by growing a garden

[Mandy1]

@Shaz51 Cool I’ll post a pic tomorrow when on my laptop - my phone doesn’t seem to allow photo uploads ??

[Shaz51]

Lovely @Mandy1 , will take a picture of mine too

[Smc]

@Mandy1 I love Wooly Bush. I've got a little one planted in our garden, but we have resident wallabies, and guess what, they like it too. It's been nibbled down a fair bit, so I'm protectively watching it and hoping it will put out new growth. It wasn't very big to start with!

I bought it from a native reveg nursery that our town's garden club visited last year. We were all having a quiet laugh at the nurseryman, because he pulled out a largeish Wooly Bush in a pot to show us at the start of a talk about the nursery, then spent the entire time he was talking stroking the stems. When he asked if there were any questions, one of the ladies asked him how much time it needed to be stroked for each day, and I asked at what point could we expect it to start purring...

[Former-Member]

@Mandy1
Adding a picture with mobile: You have to convert your display to 'desktop' then follow the prompts as if u were using desktop.
- go to home page
- swipe down and 3 dots appear in Rt corner. Top them for dropdown
- select "request desktop site"
-display will be the same as on pc
- when you reply tap little landscape picture on toolbar and follow prompts to select or upload your photo / pic

[Former-Member]

@Mandy1

Pics through - cannot send a 2nd like - plants look good.

[CheerBear]

Hi there gardening people ☺

It's a bit funny posting over this way, but I came across this thread and love it so I hope it's ok to join in.

Part of my self care (aka "learn to tolerate a horrible housing situation") is to enjoy our awesome garden. The garden has lots of grass so I've had to practice my mowing and whipper snippering skills, and heaps of different fruit trees which are so cool. I think I've got those bits under control, but we also have an incredible opportunity for a vegetable garden which was pretty much a dry dirt patch when we moved in, as the previous owners loved gardening but struggled to maintain it as they aged. I played around in it when we first came here and have had success with beans, zucchini, snowpeas, bok choy, celery, broccoli and herbs. I had no idea what I was doing though. It's now back to being a pretty sad looking piece of dirt with weeds (the herbs are still loving life though) and now I am about to sign up to stay here for a while, I want to get back into making it something special for the kids and I. I'd love to have something that's both pretty (flowers - lots of them!) and that gives us lots of yummy fresh fruit and vegetables.

It's a rectangular patch with a fence on two sides and a low rail around the other two sides, with an inside border thats about 50cm wide all the way around. The whole space is a little over 7.5 long and 5m wide. It's daunting but exciting 🙂

Anyway, I thought I'd pop in and say hi as I plan on reading along and hoping to learn a little on the way. This morning was a 'think about gardening' day, and tmorrow is my 'actually get into the garden' day.

Hope the weekend is going well for you all 😊

[Former-Member]

Helloooo @CheerBear
Of course you are welcome, just bring along your hat and sunscreen.
It is nice to get a good veg patch going (aka the kitchen garden). Nothing like home grown peas picked fresh and eaten immediately.
Love hearing of any culinary delights made with any home grown produce too. The best I can hope for today is to get a touch of weeding done today between showers.

@Adge how is your garden going?

[Adge]

It's getting hot & dry here already.
There won't be virtually any rain now until next Winter.

My garden is much neglected, due to on going fatigue & lack of energy.

Which is sad considering the 10 years of effort, planting & care that it took to establish it in the first place.

My garden is mostly natives - grevilleas, melaleucas, small eucalypts, hibiscus & various other things.

They were the ones that were strong enough to survive the dry heat & me forgetting to water them.

I love old world heritage roses. I only have a few roes left at the moment - Lamarque is a lovely thornless climbing rose with white fragrant flowers.

Adge

[Former-Member]

@Adge
Sounds like you have what our @Smc says 'a crisis proof garden'
I'm aiming for one of these ....

[Appleblossom]

Spent a bit of time trimming, tidying, and repotting and replanting etc.  I try and do a BIG watering in around this time of year, and the roots then have to go deep t survive the summer.  Its not that I totally neglect them, but I had to be tough to adapt to Aussie conditions and so do my plants.

It was lovely, not too hot, a little company, and a visit to a brand noooo library.

Hi @CheerBear Your garden sounds great, but a handful.