I have been reading how good gardening is for us, not only fresh air and fresh food, bees and butterflies (if we are lucky), physical activity and connecting to nature, but for underlying things like stress. While birds sing, I feel stress shedding off every time I’m out there.🌷🌷🌷🌷 It also works as an antidote to disheartening news reports, I planted some lettuce and spinach to start with as I have never grown my own veg before.
I've gone all in this year (almost) the weeds are winning, the birds and insects are slyly having a dig so I'm losing cabbage seedlings etc. I've managed to keep the cats off so far. Had my first strawberry today! What's working? Broad beans are flowering ok. A few mange tout are showing (they seem way easier than peas for some reason) I have a one metre square with 4 beetroot seedlings hoping more will show eventually. Runner beans just starting to show up. Strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, and black currents flowering nicely. Potatoes showing where I planted them and almost everywhere else in the garden! Not taking them up those are freebies. Round courgette plants are looking well and there are some cucumber plants looking ok. Have about 6 tomato plants in pots. I should just make a video really but then you'd see the weeds. I did an hour of weeding tonight. Got to say about yours everything looks to be growing beautifully.
@GeniUs I also had many weeds, raking them up did no good in the long run so I bought some rock salt to put down and that polished them off never to return.
@seasonedspirit but doesn't that make the ground unusable (although I might try this on my drive) I'm just nipping out to put some dishwasher salt down see what that does.
I am still trying to get to grips with an inherited garden in our new home. This year a lilac bush has been fantastic (lots of sun and no wind or rain to knock off the blossom) and has kept hundreds of bees happy.
Fabulous! Your lettuce looks great too. And yes, gardening is great therapy and good for the soul. 😍
When I was doing container (vegetable) gardening I was growing yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, green bell peppers.. Now I just do flowers and plants.
This year I created a few new beds full of wildflower seeds. They are all coming up nicely and all are pollinator attracting..🌱🏵
Your plants are coming up nicely, specially for first timer. Gardening is always relaxing. I haven’t done much gardening for few years. I have started now this year. Lot to clean and prepare though.
Apples, plums, greengages, pears, figs, raspberries, gooseberries, broad beans, runner beans, tomatoes, lettuce, rhubarb, peppers, cucumbers, herbs and many flowers and trees. Gardening is my relaxation,I love it.
I planted one row of lettuce/radishes one row of onion/green onion and one row of peas I love fresh peas the lettuce radish row is sprouting nothing else yet
@seasonedspirit My wife used to do the actual gardening of vegetables, but her decline into dementia means she hasn't planted anything in years now. Used to have tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. These days I just try to keep the yard clear enough so the town doesn't have a fit and try to fine us.
@ChipmunkErnie Is there some small things you could try growing? You might find enjoy in gardening again and it would be good exercise, nothing strenuous I mean.
