What Did You Do In The Garden?

[ninnymary]

Gardening with Rabbits, it does sound like your garden is too big for you for right now. Maybe you need to cut down since you don't have the time or energy to maintain it. I'm sure that you would still have plenty of produce. Perhaps at a later time, you can expand if you wish. My feeling is that as we're getting older, the last thing we should be doing is planting a bigger garden.

Mary

 

[PennyJo]

that is just we have have done this year I am so happy with it have lots coming on but not allot to maintain

 

[AMKuska]

I planted fish. Think they'll grow? ;-)

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Gardening with Rabbits, it does sound like your garden is too big for you for right now. Maybe you need to cut down since you don't have the time or energy to maintain it. I'm sure that you would still have plenty of produce. Perhaps at a later time, you can expand if you wish. My feeling is that as we're getting older, the last thing we should be doing is planting a bigger garden.

Mary

I agree! I have a house to clean, laundry, cooking, my job which is sitting, the rabbit chores. I just feel overwhelmed, but part of it is just such a weird spring. The grass growing, weeds all over and huge. I babied the strawberries and weeded every little weed and mulched them, and I cannot believe the weeds in there now. The comfrey plants so big they already fell over and the rhubarb huge and all of it is flowering and other people said theirs flowered early too. I can barely get past the shed because everything is so overgrown. The raspberries will be a jungle to get through. I feel like I am in a jungle. Lol.

 

[buckabucka]

I have a whole bindweed farm here @digitS' ! I don't think I'll ever be rid of it.
Planted half the corn yesterday, as we are finally getting warm weather. It is too early for potato beetles here. For some reason, I haven't really encountered flea beetles yet, but the blackflies have been abundant!

 

[Nyboy]

After tiring to grow different vines and failing on a gazebo, I almost planted bindweed. members here begged me not to glad I listened,

 

[digitS']

Gardening can be aspirational but other parts of life may take greater claims and starting too big is easier than efficient harvesting. I have only an idea what it would feel like if I was much good at preserving food. I take some pride in my composting. And yet, there I'm also putting minimal energy into it - not turning. Just cover and allow time for natural processes.

Abundance feels better than scarcity. Vegetables available for me give me a good feeling. They serve an important purpose even if I have to put them in the compost.

I'd never have so many flowering perennials if they were entirely up to me. We had a standard joke at the wholesale florist when faced with too much to do. We would look earnestly into someone's eyes and say, "But, flowers are my life, not." I can even imagine myself saying that with the yard coming into full peony bloom. The biennial sweet williams are opening, also. Siberian iris. Even have a rose or two. Meh. Just wait for those golden daylilies .

It's DW, she can get the weeds outta them. I can hit the perimeter of those flower beds as I'm passing by with the mower. Surprising how it does feel like a contribution but in no way am I gonna keep those beds weed-free. And, DW won't either - wading in, on a Sunday morning for an hour at a time. I have my efficiency standards, they are good enuf even for ornamentals and as Groucho Marx said, "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

With a world of weeds surrounding that distant big veggie garden, it is enough that the garden plants maintain a competitive edge and the weed situation doesn't worsen, season to season. I do okay and trust that I'm appreciated for my efforts by the neighbors there. There are broad standards in that neighborhood -- from killing everything green over acres of ground to the people yet to even mow their weeds by June!

Steve

we are each other's
harvest:
we are each other's
business:
we are each other's
magnitude and bond. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks

 

[Nyboy]

I only let weeds bother me when they are towering over my flowers I just never worried about a prefect weed free yard

 

[lcertuche]

Weeds are what I grow best!

 

[thistlebloom]

I have a whole bindweed farm here @digitS' ! I don't think I'll ever be rid of it.

Me too.