My organic gardening part 10

[Bluelady-sing]

Chard, help my anaemia, fresh from garden, only that and chilis left, leaves sweeping, making compost etc

[Zest]

Hi Bluelady-sing

Great to see your chard.

Zest

[Matt2584]

Hi,

When I was younger I didn’t have a lot of interest in gardening and especially horticulture or the wrong or harder way to garden… in my opinion.

In 2010 I did a bit of gardening with a charity I am a part of. I quite enjoyed it and I started doing a little at home.

Not so long after I started gardening at home, my mum did much more research into composting and through composting you can save yourself quite a bit of money.

A lot gardening tools aren’t needed and fertiliser isn’t really needed when you can make your own compost.

Anyhow, for the last couple of years I have been growing cucumbers and they have come out pretty well, especially 2019, that was probably my best yet :).

This year I didn’t grow cucumbers in the end, the weather this year was a bit weird.

Not many of my plants produced.

I did grow a variety of salad which did pretty good thought.

I got a lot of celery and celeriac and some spinach out of my little plot.

[Bluelady-sing in reply to Matt2584]

Spinach in a pot? How

[Matt2584 in reply to Bluelady-sing]

Plot not pot.

[Bluelady-sing]

Me too, no real gardening as a child, no as a young adult. Now I am a member of a community garden, which is nice. I am waiting for my own allotment

[Matt2584]

I also do a bit of guerilla gardening too.

The housing tax/poll tax we pay is supposed to pay for councils maintaining the area you live in.

The area we live in is not well maintained at all.

There are some council beds near where I live that have been neglected for decades.

A couple of years ago, me and my mum walked by that area and it looked like an apocalyptic playground. Weeds growing everywhere.

We tarted the area up. Done a bit of de-weeding and pruned the bushes and the beds… well, when they were first built (in the 80s) the beds were filled with soil, had a plastic sheet over the top and more soil on top of that.

Heaven knows why.

So basically, plants would have a hard time growing.

Anyway, when we tarted up the area I cut the plastic sheets out of the beds so the plants could start growing properly again.

Over lockdown, cos we couldn’t really go anywhere apart from having a walk here and there, I used to gather handfuls of sticks on my walks, take them back to the beds, break them up and scatter them all over the surface.

The sticks will provide water/food for the earth.

I hope to soften the soil, cos right now it’s rock hard, and I wanna see it bloom.

Now the shops are back open I like to get the free packs of coffee grounds from Coffee #1 and scatter them over the surface of the beds along with the sticks.

In time, those beds will flourish with plants :).

[Bluelady-sing]

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