Side Effects of Active Gardening

rosie383

I agree with all of the above. Mind you, only another gardener can appreciate why we wander round the garden with our first cuppa of the day, talking to the plants and smiling to ourselves, or cursing the snails and slugs, depending on the day!!!!

EmptyPockets

rosie383 wrote: »

I agree with all of the above. Mind you, only another gardener can appreciate why we wander round the garden with our first cuppa of the day, talking to the plants and smiling to ourselves, or cursing the snails and slugs, depending on the day!!!!

Oh so true!

savingmummy

As someone else who was not a morning person i am now a early bird!!

After years of depression and being stuck in a top floor flat i recently moved to our 1st ever house with a back garden and i am in there all day and night
I love the garden, picking the weeds, tidying the borders, checking my seedlings in the greenhouse and seeing my flowers bloom is so enjoyable and planning what to do next to my blank canvas is so exciting and given me a focus, i have had a new lease of life since becoming green fingered and am really enjoying the learning new things too.
Just looking at my salad, tomato and strawberry plants is enough satisfaction already god only knows how i will feel when i start getting really stuck in

I now know what i`ve been missing out on x

knithryn

Hmmm well let's see...
nettle stings
horsefly bites
bramble scratches up and down my legs
and a huge grin. (Ok, that lot is from foraging for home-brew supplies - my garden isn't quite that bad)
It has increased my energy levels, perked up my poor appetite, and my next-door neighbour allowed us to create a gateway to her garden so I am now revamping it too. Hours and hours spent outside.
Other Half knows me well enough to have bought me a gardening-utility belt for my birthday, and gave it to me early as I looked as though I could use it.

[Deleted User]

As this forum is supposed to be about saving money, I thought I'd post one of my money saving tips in here. I love strawberries and want to propogate as many as I can from the runners of the plants I have. I agree with others comments elsewhere on the forum that plonking a stone on the runner to keep it in contact with the soil seemed a bit brutal (and not very stable). Another poster mentioned making v shaped pegs (sort of like tent pegs) out of coat hangers to pin the runners to the soil. I don't have any metal coathangers and no spare money to buy the sort of wire I'd need to make them so a light bulb went off in my head and I realised that the branches/twigs I collect (just look for a tree, u'll find some) to use instead of canes to support small plants have lots of twigs on the end.., many of them conveniently V shaped. So I turn the small v shaped twigs upside down and use them to pin the runners to the soil.

Sorted at no cost.

stilernin

deannatrois wrote: »

As this forum is supposed to be about saving money, I thought I'd post one of my money saving tips in here. I love strawberries and want to propogate as many as I can from the runners of the plants I have. I agree with others comments elsewhere on the forum that plonking a stone on the runner to keep it in contact with the soil seemed a bit brutal (and not very stable). Another poster mentioned making v shaped pegs (sort of like tent pegs) out of coat hangers to pin the runners to the soil. I don't have any metal coathangers and no spare money to buy the sort of wire I'd need to make them so a light bulb went off in my head and I realised that the branches/twigs I collect (just look for a tree, u'll find some) to use instead of canes to support small plants have lots of twigs on the end.., many of them conveniently V shaped. So I turn the small v shaped twigs upside down and use them to pin the runners to the soil.

Sorted at no cost.

Brilliant idea for a short term use such as this, but take care what you use twigs and sticks for.

Last year, I used prunings from shrubs for pea sticks, and many of them rooted and began to grow. It was a very interesting row of peas:o:o:o

izzwizz_2

stilernin wrote: »

Brilliant idea for a short term use such as this, but take care what you use twigs and sticks for.

Last year, I used prunings from shrubs for pea sticks, and many of them rooted and began to grow. It was a very interesting row of peas:o:o:o

LOL! That happened to me with prunings from hydrangeas!

[Deleted User]

lol Companion planting at its best :P

Primrose

One very pleasant side effect of being a gardener at the present time is that I can exile myself out in the garden with a book, a trowel, or a cup of tea while "Him Indoors" is shut away inside shouting expletives at football teams in the World Cup.:rotfl: It doesn't seem to matter which teams are playing. His loud expressions about the referee's lack of eyesight still come echoing through the patio doors!
It's not burning off many calories I must admit but it's certainly saving my sanity!