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Looking after ourselves

Re: Self care by growing a garden

@Smc treated myself to the galanthus 😀. Council has fortnightly organic waste collection = yay.

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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Re: Self care by growing a garden

Council has fortnightly organic waste collection --- cool @Former-Member Smiley Very Happy

hello @Smc , @Appleblossom , @Maggie , @Adge 

Re: Self care by growing a garden

Hi @Shaz51 The Council Rates Bill arrived yesterday.

Not so cool...

Adge

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Planted  a couple of caulis, columbines and Primula obuntica in one spot, and some out of date seeds in another.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.)

 

Primula obconica. Bigger flowers and more of a colour range than standard garden primulas. looking forward to seing whar colours I get. :)Primula obconica. Bigger flowers and more of a colour range than standard garden primulas. looking forward to seing whar colours I get. 🙂

Re: Self care by growing a garden

Have a lot of tidying up to do before I can contemplate plantings @Smc although I do need to attend to the plant divisions that I brought with us.

 

@Shaz51  there are a few pots with succulents here.

 

 

Re: Self care by growing a garden

Why not? 😄

 

 

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Re: Self care by growing a garden

Hee hee, that's a Good One @Smc

Adge

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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 ...

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.

 

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