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Inverted snobbery.... yawn.
Hi 'Farm 1', Thanks for posting back. I admit it - we do actually have some junk here! This morning I have been shifting some builders' rubble 'out of sight'... I haven't got rid of it because it will 'come in handy at some stage' for a greenhouse base or whatever. The more I try to keep on top of the garden, the harder it seems - except for the veg. patch that is! I have been so busy with that over recent years that I haven't had chance to put in a great deal in the way of flower beds - certainly not annuals. We don't like garish flowers either... ( I really hate petunias - but don't tell anyone). I really do hope you manage to enjoy your gardens with all the work it must entail, and that it is not becoming too much of a struggle. Naturally I send all our best wishes. Again I will look on the bright side and say that those of us with gardens must be the fortunate ones. One fails to imagine being under the circumstances we face - and being unable to 'escape' on a regular basis, for some well needed fresh air. Take care, Keith "Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message ... "Keith (Dorset)" wrote in message "Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message "Keith (Dorset)" wrote in message Perhaps you just need to look at some things in a different way? For example, having had cancer treatment last year, my veg garden got right on top of me. I had a huge pile of weeds that needed to be got rid of, but then I realised that if I could grow spuds under straw, I could grow spuds under weeds. I now have a thriving extra patch of spuds under weeds (in addition to the spuds under straw). By doing this I'm effectively turning the weeds into compost by sheet mulching. It works and works well, but then I have a big garden and another garden on another farm and I have to do things that work within the time constraints. Live is too short for me to run anal gardens. Hi Farm 1, By concidence I have an extremely good idea about how cancer can disrupt things. My wife, who I look after, and who lives at home, has needed 24 hour care through a brain tumour that took a hold many years ago. Needless to say my gardening time is somewhat limited. The consultant told me back in 1988 that she might be fortunate and have around another ten years to live. We too therefore have been aware of how short life is... for a very long time. Anyway, I'm sorry if you took offence at my post. (re, your comment about 'anal gardens'). The purpose of my comment 'Have fun whatever' followed by the wink smiley was to indicate that that my message was not intended to cause offence - merely to start a lighthearted and topical thread. Hi Keith I didn't take offence at your post at all in any way, shape or form. If I ever do take offence, I go direct for the jugular and there will be no doubt that I am in attack mode (I am an Australian after all and our national reputation is certainly not one of being subtle in any way). I have a BIG garden (in fact 2 gardens - the one here is big and another on another farm which is only about a quarter of an acre, but I know that is considered big by comparison to many UK gardens). I am the sole gardener and as an woman in later middle age who has 2 bouts of differing primary cancers, I don't have the time or the physical strength to be as fussy as I could be. Not that I'd want to either. I think that gardens are so diverse that it's just about impossilbe to really talk about any garden as satisfying or meeting any sort of "standard" and that includes what is one man junk. Standards are for setting for garden competitions where if one enters, one knows how the judging is done. I personally don't like super neat gardens or those that are full of annuals and lots of colour that I consider to be garish, but that doesn't mke them any less enjoyable to their owners or the efforts of the owners any the less valid than my own efforts or my own garden. The skills and knowledge involved in gardening as well as the constant "doing" are something we all share (or try to learn) and what works for one may not work for anyone else or in anyone else's location. We are all unique as are our gardens. I make use of "junk" as do most other gardeners I know. I use polystyrene greengrocer boxes from the tip for propogating plants and have found nothing better for protecting the plants in a hot climate. I have another friend who uses an old bath to hold her potting compost and she has a propogating area which I think I'd almost kill to own. I have another friend who uses a bath as a worm farm with a bucket set up under the drain hole to collect worn liquid. I'm envious of that set up too. It's horses for courses. What works for me and turns me on won't do that for another gardener. If you don't like junk, then I don't mind if you don't see the value of junk then it's just more junk for us other gardeners who like it :-)) (I added the emoticon specially even though I generally don't use them). I hope your wife is doing well and that you are managing well. I know it can't be easy for either of you - cancer in all its forms is a mongrel thing. |
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