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06-08-2019 02:38 PM
06-08-2019 02:38 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
@Smc treated myself to the galanthus 😀. Council has fortnightly organic waste collection = yay.
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06-08-2019 04:51 PM - edited 06-08-2019 04:52 PM
06-08-2019 04:51 PM - edited 06-08-2019 04:52 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Yay @Former-Member. 🙂
Meanwhile, I've been known to ask for other people's green waste. I've never yet had "too much" mulch/compost, and eagerly accept anything that will work as one or the other.
Then there's this garden, where the owner started a garden maintenance business specifically to get access to large amounts of lawn clippings and other "wastes" to build up his soil.
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06-08-2019 05:10 PM
06-08-2019 05:10 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Council has fortnightly organic waste collection --- cool @Former-Member
hello @Smc , @Appleblossom , @Maggie , @Adge
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06-08-2019 05:40 PM
06-08-2019 05:40 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
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06-08-2019 06:20 PM
06-08-2019 06:20 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Busy out in the garden today. Some prosaic stuff like weeding (and feeding it to the animals).
Cleared Jerusalem Artichokes out of a patch of not-great soil, some to replant elsewhere, some to eat. Put an old piece of corrugated over the spot to smother out the persistent weeds, and started stacking firewood on top of it. By the time that's seasoned and been used up, the persistent weeds should be history and that spot ripe for soil improvement.
Planted a couple of caulis, columbines and Primula obuntica in one spot, and some out of date seeds in another. (Rose pink Nigella, wallflowers and Flanders Poppies. Planted thickly so if they germinate well I'll be busy transplanting... if they germinate poorly, at least something's there.)
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06-08-2019 08:16 PM
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07-08-2019 05:45 PM
07-08-2019 05:45 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Why not? 😄
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07-08-2019 06:58 PM
07-08-2019 06:58 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Hee hee, that's a Good One @Smc
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10-08-2019 03:53 PM
10-08-2019 03:53 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Windy with showers here too @Shaz51 but managed to fill the garden waste bin with prunings. Neighbour is out, was hoping to see if I could fill her bin too ...
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10-08-2019 04:09 PM - edited 10-08-2019 04:17 PM
10-08-2019 04:09 PM - edited 10-08-2019 04:17 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Awwww, I wish I was your neighbour @Former-Member. I'd take the lot off your hands. 😄
Below... from a few years ago. I filled up this "besser block bed" with well packed down garden wastes and topped it off with soil. Got a very good crop of beans off it a few months later.