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moneyonmymindsam

Dinner sounds great - doing amazing as always!! don't be so hard on you RE: the garden.

Look after you that's the main thing .

Gold star from me as always in awe of all your doings :-)

Much love as always

Sam x

RosaBernicia

greenbee wrote: »

Maybe you need to write a flylady for the garden book? After all, I ask you for advice

One of my neighbours says to do a bucket of weeds/pruning a day - I started that on Sunday, and think it might make it manageable. Mind you, after all the log chopping on Sunday I'm feeling a bit creaky

I have a terrifying amount of work to do before tomorrow morning...

I'd buy FlyLady style gardening book

greenbee

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I'd buy FlyLady style gardening book

It could start with something along the lines of keeping the bit by the front door tidy... I'm sure it can be done

RosaBernicia

greenbee wrote: »

It could start with something along the lines of keeping the bit by the front door tidy... I'm sure it can be done

Zones!

I have always killed stuff in pots by the front door - I waltz past them intending to come back and water them once I've put all my work stuff down, then forget...

greenbee

There you are redo... a nice project to keep you sat down where fat cat can keep an eye on you and give you breaks in the gardening and housework... and practice writing

Seasidegal58

There is a book advertised on Amazon called "The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook" by Rosemary Alexander. Might be worth a look.

sashybo - have just began reading "The House on the Strand" again. I think I might be getting back into reading more of du Maurier........:)

redofromstart

greenbee wrote: »

One of my neighbours says to do a bucket of weeds/pruning a day - I started that on Sunday, and think it might make it manageable.

That sounds more manageable than 'never walk past a weed' - I give up three yards out of the back door.

moneyonmymindsam wrote: »

don't be so hard on you RE: the garden.
Look after you that's the main thing .

Thanks Sam, I am trying to pace myself on this project but its not my style. ' Flat out, burn out, fall over' is my usual cycle and I need to break that loop.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I'd buy FlyLady style gardening book

I just wish someone expert would write one

Actually that's the key thing - on all of the writing. I don't see myself as an 'expert' and I get stressed when workplaces refer to me as 'the expert' and then I read things on my subject and get irritated because they miss practical things. Hmm, something to think about. The first time someone wrote a review that said 'clearly doesn't know her plants' I would agree and would withdraw it, and myself into my little shell. The point is that it doesn't need to be a book about plants, it needs to be about a system for getting it straight, preferably on a budget.

On the writing avoidance front, it has been raining so no gardening. It has at least watered in my transplants from yesterday.

Remains of the turkey sliced and frozen in gravy. DS1s favourite ping dinner. Tonight I think we will be having a fish green curry which will use the other half of the jar, and lots of green veg.

redofromstart

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Zones!

I have always killed stuff in pots by the front door - I waltz past them intending to come back and water them once I've put all my work stuff down, then forget...

I am rubbish at watering pots so:
1. Always add some of the water retaining gel
2. Stand the pot where it gets some shade if you can - then it doesn't dry out as much
3. Plant things that aren't thirsty! The more robust end of the spectrum, lavenders for example like to be dry and sunny. Twiggy things work better than juicy snappable stems.
4. Top coat with bark or gravel so the soil isn't exposed
5. Keep a pop bottle of water hidden way close by, so you are not having to go back. If its a stop for 30 seconds then I will do it, but I have to go round the back to get a watering can then it will never happen. I keep the bottle in the front porch.
6. Choose a nice thick big pot, lots of soil for more water, and the thickness will protect the soil a little. My thin stainless steel ones are a nightmare for this so I only plant ivy in them.

See, I can do this

redofromstart

Seasidegal58 wrote: »

There is a book advertised on Amazon called "The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook" by Rosemary Alexander. Might be worth a look.

sashybo - have just began reading "The House on the Strand" again. I think I might be getting back into reading more of du Maurier........:)

Thanks, will have a look now. I own both of the books I could find on 'rescue' and 'rejuvenation' so that helps.

I own Hungry Hill, Mary-Anne and Frenchmans Creek so read FC last night. I am sure I used to own Jamaica Inn too. Must see what the library have.

doingitanyway

I think you should write a gardening book based on the flylady principles. i would read it. I would buy it! You can call it Greenfly