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Gardening: Do you have green fingers?

Gardening could mean flowers, vegetables or herbs. It could mean growing the tallest sunflower or a herb gardening on the windowsill. Which ever you choose to do, gardening has been heavily talked about during lockdown.

The benefits of gardening?
You may have been putting off the odd job here and there until the bank holiday but seeing as self-isolating means we now have lots of time on our hands, it’s a nice way to spend time in a garden, on your balcony, or even gardening indoors.
Plus, there are many benefits to gardening, scientists have found that spending two hours a week in nature is linked to better health and wellbeing.
What are you growing?
I'm fortunate to have a small garden which has slowly been filled with flowers and plants. I particularly like hanging baskets with flowers and our patch of wild flowers.Yet I know not everyone has access to a garden. Alternatively, house plants can be a great way of bring some greenery into your space. They can be low maintenance and could actual help to clean the air! My personal favourite would be a succulent or cheese plant.
As an amateur gardener or a complete beginner, what have you planted in the past? What would you like to grow? Let us know in the comments below!
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Must be all the horse manure KarenO. Lol. Omg. Lol.
My lads were at beavers and all the way up to scouts and beyond! Lots of awards!
@gaz1960, sounds like you'll be able to cook some lovely meals with all that fresh veg!
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Most work seems to be weeding! Omg. Why doesnt food grow as fast as weeds! Lol.
Gardens or at least tubs or window boxes also a source of growing.
Always a great way to let kids learn how to grow food,and a great way for them to learn about recycling?
I wonder if there are others that share the same interest?
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Dragonslayer.
Both resident squirrels and a million different species of birds descending on the bird feeders and bird house,including a green escaped parrot, the starlings love cold Dominoes pizza ! Go figure!?
And .....mashed potato! Starlings love it! OMG;)
Maybe I am coming around to this gardening thing after all.
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Had a small allotment at one point but it was a bit much to manage. Grew courgettes and marrow! Only because I forgot to get a few.
Miss it a bit I've a tumbling tomato plant at the moment. Not doing to well need a few more flowers.
Do miss being in there as much as before.
I've got a Chinese elm too dragonslayer. Its room shape pretty cool plants
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I am growing strawberry's and they are doing quite well in this weather! I spotted those in the garden center on a sunny day and thought it'd be nice to grow my own fruit! I also have three little sunflower sprouts which I look forward to relocating as soon as they seem ready to flee the nest.
I have also discovered this today, which I spent quite a while ( probably too long ) researching! it's a conjoined flower! which apparently is quite a rare thing in the flower world, I am researching whether I can take clippings of it to continue this on as I find it beautiful, I've decided to call it the ' twice as beautiful ' flower and I am thinking of pressing it, so that it can be a reminder to me that beauty can be unique and different!
It may have also inspired a poem in me, but that's another tale!
xx
That lighthouse sounds like a nice little project, please could you take some photos? once it is finished Id love to see the end result, the hedgehog hotel also sounds fabulous, my aunt has one and she has a little visitor quite often, wildflowers are the prettiest and very beneficial for the wildlife, I love it when bees buzz inside flower petals and it echo's like a flowery trumpet haha!
My dad loves nature/wildlife and he has built a little bee house and has a section in the garden devoted to wildflowers/nettles, his garden is essentially an organised ' mess ' of plants and things for wildlife to love and thrive in,
It sounds like you've got a lovely little sanctuary there
All the best.
Have you put your name down for an allotment. I had to wait for 19 months before I got mine. Just a thought x
There is a thread for people looking for allotments,and allotments available in all areas.
Plus people looking to help with gardening and growing veg,if people have available space,gardens,etc,in return a shared split of grown veg,costs,plus a great way for people to make friends and help each other.
How are your plants looking?
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Just one happy corner shown here
Sounds like you have busy garden @KarenO_Scope! Do you have a plan of what you are wanting to make with the ingredients you have grown?
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Nice,
It brings even some extra benefits, healthy benefits.
It'll be a community project and yet, it's not clear if it's not gonna be designed for someone disabled (in this case, it could be eligible for grants) but, perhaps, not (it'll be a bit remote, inaccessible). Yup, at the same, I like it too, I'd like to hang up shelves, grow in floors, economically, to multiple times use space by hanging up (e.g. in 5 floors, 10cm x 10cm so 100/m2 and 500/5 floors per 1m2) with led lights, a small wind power plant, automated watering, and some webcams connected to Raspberries, Oranges or Bananas, and the temperature under the ground (4-8 feet, it's enough to avoid freezing and get the extra space). What do we know, maybe I find something from Etsy or Aliexpress when I/someone will be rigging, I wanna make it look good/interesting. When there'll be time, I'd like to build one (a greenhouse, in this case) just to show/prove the feasibility and price tags.Regards
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400 square meters, 20 x 20 meters is 0.0988422 acre:
"The average price of bare agricultural land in England and Wales has risen from £6,979 per acre to £7,030 per acre in the first quarter of 2019. Despite this, since 2015, agricultural land prices have fallen." (Agent Hub, p.1, 2019).
It makes the price in pounds:
The market average for 200 square meters:
The market value of 100 square meters:
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Reference:
Agent Hub (2019, December 13). Struggling to sell farmland? Here’s why. P. 1.
Retrieved from: https://agenthubltd.com/struggling-sell-farmland-reasons/#:~:text=The%20cost%20of%20farmland,agricultural%20land%20prices%20have%20fallen.
Check out FWI, to orient in the price ranges. It can go as low as 1300 per acre (even if the average is around 7K). For a greenhouse, the quality doesn't really matter (you don't have to seed in the land or for 1300 is better to say that you don't have to seed in the stones).
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Trying to get her to understand where food actually comes from,and eat healthily
Gave some fresh carrots and potatoes to my next door neighbours.
I always grow more than ill use.
First crop of runner beans on the plants,should be ready by next week?
Onions doing well.
Planted a,second lot of leek seedlings, the rabbits ate the first ones! Lol ,they must look like grass!
Planted lettuce this week.
And Pentland Javlin potatoes that should be ready by Christmas.
The birds ate all the rasberries! Lol:)
Hey,I'm the intruder in "their" "garden"! Lol.
At least nothing is eating my onions! Lol.
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When I spoke to and OOT she had only experience of adapting gardens for children
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Supertasters may be picky eaters
- broccoli.
- spinach.
- Brussels sprouts.
- turnips.
- watercress.
From googleinteresting article
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Oh I see. I might have to have some chocolate now as a test
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Has anyone any idea how to keep snails and slugs from eating flowers and veg in the garden? (Thinking of tomatoes p!ants especially) Tried using snail and slug pellets, but still they come.
Also have trouble with keeping cats away. Any idea's?
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unfortunately they are becoming scarce. Me and my neighbour have little arched holes in our fences as hedgehog highways but alas they remain unused 🙁
Thank you very much 😁
Do you know the name of the other gardening thread?
Many thanks 😁
Thank you very much😁
I am going do a label for it as I often lose the ones I get with the plant particularly as I find it difficult to push the label into the ground.
It is a really beautiful plant which has flowered for ages. As it is a wooded plant I will try to see if I can grow some cuttings from it.
Many thanks😁
Tomorrow,ill try doing real fresh chips in the airfryer,see how they come out
Also try doing some potatoes,and carrots and onions as vegetable crisps in the airfryer.
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Thank you very much😁
I didn’t know what it was but it caught my eye so I took a picture😁
Thankfully I am not scared of spiders 🕷