Benefits of Gardening
@globalBraid3744
Great post! thanks!
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@MistyMagic
I would love to see your garden! You must eat lots of healthy food when you grow everything in your garden. One day, I wish to have my own garden as well, where I would grow crops and flowers. However, gardening requires not only lots of patience and time but also knowledge! Once I was trying to grow mint from seeds. I watered it every day but nonetheless; it did not grow and till now I have no idea why. No wonder you leave the grass to grow longer! It must be a beautiful sight to have there many wildflowers and butterflies.
@globalBraid3744 one tip about mint, buy a plant from a supermarket and plant it in new proper soil! seeds never seem to really germinate.
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@MistyMagic
Thank you for this great tip! Will do :)
@globalBraid3744
@mytwistedsoul
Thank you for the reply. I agree that gardening has many benefits. I think when it is a shared garden area your neighbors must really appreciate how you beautify the area! I do not know much about hydroponics but it sounds interesting and I feel like searching for more information about it now.
Of course, this is our native land, it feeds and waters us! Unity with nature is very important, especially now, when there is less and less of it in everyday life. But sometimes modernity goes very well with chthonic originality, for example, [ad removed] Thanks to technological progress for making it possible to run away from it more and more efficiently every day!
Thank you so much for creating this post 💙 I've always been interested in gardening, seeing everyone's posts is encouraging!
@SirenOfSerenity What do you grow? I think it is fascinating to be able to watch from seed to fruition?
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@MistyMagic
I haven't started 🙈 for some odd reason I've always been nervous to just start! I'd love to start growing my own fruit and vegetables (if the East Coast climate of the U.S. allows it)
@SirenOfSerenity
I'm a bit nervous too - not got much further than a few herbs in pots on the windowsill .. they are dead now 🤦🤣🤣
But I can always try again 😀💚
Have a crack at it you might surprise yourself ! :)
@WorriedMagpie Water! Water! Water! Check the moisture level, maybe even sit the pots in a plastic tray from meat or veg etc so the water can collect and keep them moist?
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@MistyMagic
:O grand idea! recycling and plants double win! might just have to try that thankyou !
@SirenOfSerenity I know what you mean. I think one of the main things is to look around you and see what others are growing? For instance your earth may suit things like sunflowers or apples, instead of carrot and potato?
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@MistyMagic
I love this tip to look around you and see what others are growing! It can be very useful to see what other things can thrive in your area.
@MistyMagic
I literally love both apples and sunflowers, thank you for suggesting it!
@globalBraid3744
Yay a gardening thread! I'd love to get more into gardening but I'm a total novice and anxious to do anything with my garden maybe this will help :D
Discussion
1. What benefits do you personally gain from gardening?
I love doing things with my hands, so the satisfaction of helping create and nurture with them - I get totally lost in it, or at least the small amount of porting a cleanup I've done!
2. What kind of gardening do you like?
I like the idea of growing my own food - I've not gotten that far yet past a few herbs and a chilli plant that grew one chilli and died so that's something I guess 🤣 -- I'd love to get really into permaculture gardening so any ideas for a small England yard would be welcomed !
3. How much time do you spend in the garden/yard? What do you grow there
Not as much as I'd like, I don't know what to do out there and the space isn't very peaceful as it is currently - I'd love to set it up to be a little sanctuary -- grow? Mostly weeds 🤣🤣 but I've been looking after the front garden better (it's on show so I feel more pressured to keep it tidy) and after 3 years it's become a lovely little wildflower garden - I'd like to take the credit for that but I think the local jackdaw family has had more of a hand in it 😊💚
@WorriedMagpie I have let some of my garden go wild and I am stunned at the myriad of flowers I have now, even some weeds are beautiful and the bees love them!
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@MistyMagic
Yeahhh! my front garden is lovely its its my favourite on the street if i do say so myself :D
Actually had to just defend it from the landlord who came around with her siccotours? (never typed that word before apparently XD ) -- she was cool though just didnt think I wanted to garden, she was more than happy to let it seed over fortunately !
Theres all sorts in there now, I love listening to all the bees greet me on the way out the door in the morning :D
@WorriedMagpie 😀secateurs I think :) Phew for the landlord then.
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@MistyMagic
Yeeeee never spelled that before ! XD
Honestly Ive been pretty lucky so far as landlords go! maybe one day I'll post a photo :)
@WorriedMagpie
of the garden! not the landlord XD
@MistyMagic
I agree that even some weeds are beautiful! We grow a few of them in our garden. We also grow different species of decorative garlic - butterflies love them!
@WorriedMagpie
Thank you for taking part in our discussion!!
I think that it is important to read some information before planting and then try and learn along the way :) Some herbs can be pretty demanding so it is a good start
I love wildflowers! I think your front garden must be beautiful when it blooms
@globalBraid3744
Thanks Braid :D
Honestly thats probably partly where I'm going wrong Ive bought a bunch of houseplants and have no idea how to look after them properly -- let alone grow stuff outside!
Maybe having a bit more of a plan rather than just going "ooh thats pretty" and bringing it home to die might work better! XD
@WorriedMagpie
Haha, I can relate! I do the same with flowers! I just buy them because they are so pretty and then when they are not doing well, I just go over what went wrong :D But this is also how we learn, right?
@globalBraid3744
Yeah that's true!
I struggle to learn anything unless I'm doing it as well, Ive read buttloads of plant info but never had the plant at hand to use it. 🤔
Just need to sync up the plant buying with the plant learning and we might just get there 😅😂
@WorriedMagpie
What was the last plant you bought?
All the best with syncing it! You will manage 🌻
@globalbraid
Me too! - and I bet my plants are hoping for that as well 😂😂
I actually bought a little succulent the other day -- I've not had much luck with them so far!
Got super inspired by you and this thread yesterday and got myself a bunch of fresh potting mix and specialist cactus stuff and stuff -- and spent the afternoon repotting all my sad plants ! They look a bit less sad today :D
What has been the easiest/hardest plants for you to grow so far? (I will avoid the hard one 😂😂) 💚🐦
@WorriedMagpie
How great you got a new succulent 🌵 I am sure your plants are excited about having a new habitat!! Maybe the succulents you got before were over-watered as they usually do not mind sun or being dry for longer.
The easiest plants to grow for me were probably pelargoniums. They are not very demanding. Also, Aloe Vera is great. Not only you can use it to help with healing burns and other small injuries but it also does not need much attention. Orchids are also doing pretty well here.
The most difficult was passiflora. One of them dried out and I have no idea why because the other one potted with it was totally fine and it was getting enough water. I discovered one spider was living there and tried to get rid of it so maybe this was the issue. Then we planted 3 new ones in our garden and took them inside for the winter, but they did not survive, anyway.
I usually only take care of the flowers so I do not have much experience with growing food.
What was the easiest plant for you to grow?
I really want to move into a house with a garden, this is my dream. Now I'm moving into a new apartment, and it's cool that now you can contact a company that provides Honestly, it's very cool, because I have absolutely no time to pack things, move them, and then take apart the boxes and put things in their place.
@matsukendg
Good luck with moving! It is great that a company can help with it - usually moving is very stressful. I wish that one day your dream will come true and you will have your house with a garden.
@globalBraid3744
I want to garden one day when I have my own place! Small steps...I've been thinking I should start small, maybe with a cactus, lol! Or some kind of plant that I can take care of indoors and transplant to a garden outside one day?
@ThadSterling
This sounds awesome! It is always a good idea to start step by step. Recently I have been to a cacti garden and it was very beautiful! Cacti are not demanding and there is such a wide variety. Do you already have some indoor plants?