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knead2garden
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Ashley
Spring City
TN
USA
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 Posted - Jun 02 2010 : 1:45:54 PM
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This is going to be a really silly post. I most seriously have the garden blues.
Yesterday I went to visit my Nana and Papaw. My Papaw always has the most beautiful garden. I was so proud of my garden until I saw his. My husband kept saying "wow the garden isn’t looking so good" I kept thinking "what are you talking about it looks pretty good considering all of the pests we've had this season". Then came the drive to my grandparent’s house. It is almost an hour (just like everything else...lol) and through a really rural area, so I always get to see lots and lots of gardens. This usually makes me very happy. Not exaggerating at all: My garden is by far the worst garden I saw for an hour!!
Maybe I have rose colored glasses...I (with three kids) have worked so hard and this is not my first garden. My plants are not nearly as big and do not have as much fruit.
Let me say I am very happy for EVERY SINGLE GARDENER whose garden I admired so much yesterday. This is not envy; this just stinks. I just realized how far behind it is. Honestly it was almost like someone telling me one of my children is not doing as well as the other children (which has happened). Maybe it will make me more determined (like it did with my oldest son) to help it grow.
I know I'm silly. Now that I'm looking at what I've typed it is kind of funny that I spent the day baking over it! What funny creatures we humans are...Maybe you all will get a laugh, too. Take care all.
~Ashley
"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum |
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
4562 Posts
Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
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Posted - Jun 02 2010 : 4:36:32 PM
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I know how you feel! Last year my garden was the most awesome garden in my neighborhood. This year the weather has been so weird and I have crows and other varmints helping themselves. It is getting better but....I am sure yours will too! Chin up Ashley and keep on gardening.
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jun 02 2010 : 5:23:41 PM
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Ashley, I also know how you feel. I love my garden and think it's the most pretty one around til I go out and see other gardens! I have seen some really pretty gardens that have not got a weed in them and flowers all around and birdhouses all over and pretty little gates and benches and garden sheds. And pretty picket fences around them with grape vines or flowers. Oh, I could go on and on. But mostly these people are retired and all they do is garden. They'd have to. Or have hired gardeners to do it for them all day.
I do have big pretty rows of sunflowers and a row of zinnias and cosmos. And a pretty new grape vine going in the middle on my smaller garden. So that will help with the prettiness. But the weeds are a whole other story.
So you just do the best you can with your 3 little ones and know that yours is the prettiest garden around. I would love to see it one day. So really, it's not silly at all to think like that.
Kris
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3335 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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Posted - Jun 02 2010 : 8:11:03 PM
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Ashley...I have struggled for years with the lawn at my house...finally over the course of the past two years I decided to heck with it, I am going to have raised beds instead of a well groomed lawn. My garden last year was so/so...this year my DH suggested Chicken Manure------
After a steady rain all day long...I just popped outside to inspect my
7- raised vegetable and flower beds, various and numerous flowers up and down my picket fence, and my lavender perennial bed... I could have done CARTWHEELS---and I am waaaaay to old for such nonsense- What I saw was like something out of a nuclear mutant sci-fi movie. My gardens are brilliant this year, the first time in almost 15-years!! It's a good think I am patient person...
My advice is---Plant what grows, have patience, and use plenty of MANURE-LOL!
Believe me...I have been where you are dear friend--
Melody
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Butterscotch Grove
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Melissa
Fairbanks
AK
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Posted - Jun 02 2010 : 8:18:10 PM
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My garden/yard/weedpatch is pretty right now because early June is when the wild roses bloom - and they are weeds in my yard. Pink roses, blue forgetmenots and bluebells, and lots and lots of yellow dandelions! I'm callin' that pretty. :-)
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knead2garden
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Ashley
Spring City
TN
USA
359 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2010 : 05:11:54 AM
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Thanks gals! You are all wonderful. Thanks for sharing stories about your gardens it was a nice mental picture with my tea this morning:)
~Ashley
"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum |
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TJinMT
True Blue Farmgirl
211 Posts
TJ
Billings
MT
USA
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Posted - Jun 03 2010 : 3:10:50 PM
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Ahhh, I'm familiar with these symptoms... "The Garden is Always Prettier on the Other Side of the Picket Fence" syndrome. Otherwise known as Peony Envy. (Oh that's tacky, I'm sorry. But it is kinda funny?)
I love fish emulsion! I use a weak solution of it to supplement the water hose and sprinklers about once a week... it's organic, the smell reminds me of a good day fishin' (grin), and plants LOVE IT!! My cat is rather intrigued too.
Mulch is great too... I lightly sprinkle fresh grass clippings around my flowers/herbs/veggies when I mow the yard, each week, until it builds up to about an inch deep of dried clippings. That really helps maintain the soil for the earthworms, keep the plant from being stressed with weird weather, suppresses weeds (which is a big one in my book, with 2 little ones to try and ride herd on!) and adds organic fertilizer as it decomposes. Plus it looks nice!
But garden "tips" aside (which you probably already do anyway), girl, don't worry about it! Your garden should bring YOU joy, it's YOUR little bit of heaven on this side, not anyone else's! Some years our gardens just don't do as well... some years the laundry pile just doesn't do as well... some years the vacuuming- well you get the picture! I love this saying: You can have it ALL, just not ALL AT ONCE! Enjoy your garden and be proud that you're still gardening, with everything else on your plate and everyone else in the family to keep healthy and happy too! Someday you'll end up with time on your hands like your Nana and Papaw and your garden will be the envy for miles around, too!
~TJ, zone 5 gardener and Tasha Tudor emulator-wannabe!
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." -CS Lewis |
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knead2garden
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Ashley
Spring City
TN
USA
359 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2010 : 4:01:41 PM
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I almost spit my water out laughing....Peony envy...we all have it right?
~Ashley
"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum |
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