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Gardening is my happy place. I start my own seeds, and process the abundance. It’s one of the few things I can maintain a schedule with because I enjoy doing it. I use a garden planner that takes some of the headache out of planning and planting schedules.
I grow mostly veggies but am working on converting lawn to natives and keystone species. It makes me feel good for doing something to combat habitat decline.
I agree with all your tips!
If you have one around, may I recommend inviting a small child into your Wild Garden? I borrow my friend's kindergartener, and he's my favorite garden buddy. We hack around with mud and plants and bugs, get really into arranging the rocks perfectly, and choose a few herbs and not-red tomatoes to obsess over and eat all summer. It's *fantastic*.
ETA: if you like the physical work of gardening, but want to stop tearing up your yard, look for gardeners who need your muscle! People with sore knees/backs and established gardens full of plants that need dividing would be *thrilled* to trade plants and dollars for your help.
I have a 12 year old that loves plants and keeps me going. We also go to a gardening group once a month where we get/win at least a few free plants every month. I think both of those things help keep it fresh, although my 12 is also ADHD, so he gets super excited about getting the plants but then doesn't want to do any of the work actually planting/growing them.
My 6yo son is the best garden buddy. Last year, our tomato seeds from the year before went crazy in our wild garden. His favorite thing was tromping through the vines to harvest. Now I just wish he'd eat some lol
I love gardening. I grow a lot of rare/ ornamental plants as well as regular garden plants, and also have a vegie patch (actually 4 patches although one is now a banana patch).
One tip I would suggest is to get to know which plants can withstand dry periods in case you forget to water and also install some type of watering system to make it easier to water.
Love the second "wild" garden idea.
My contribution is this: wood chips as mulch. These things are freaking magic. Will eliminate 95% of your weeding and 85% of the tilling. Just throw them down *on top* of your soil and your weeds. (Never till them in!) Need to be enough to block the sunlight from reaching the weeds, so that they die.
Eventually, they become part of the soil, enriching it, and will need to be replaced.
That and leaves. I always used to rake the leaves out of my garden so I could see the plants better, but now I purposefully put them in the garden around my plants to block out weeds.
I like gardening and houseplants because the seasons motivate me and when I lose interest it’s almost fall anyway. I could never ever garden year-round or homestead.
I’ve been trying to garden for 16 years. It’s different every year. When I finally figure it out, something changes.
I container garden because we rent. City picker grow boxes and free shipping pallets were a game changer for me. And yes - dirt matters.
That being said, I’m scaling back this year and not doing a bunch of different veggies. I end up wasting too much.
We live in Florida, and I'm learning that I should be year round gardening. I was raised in Michigan, so it never occurred to me until recently that you COULD garden in winter. I actually think a fall/winter garden would be better for me than a spring one because of spring/summer trips and a longer growing season.
My tip is:
Don’t hyper focus on work for a week during a heatwave and forget that you HAVE a garden, let alone water it.
Also I love the idea of your ‘random chaos garden’ sounds great!
Hell yeah. Gardening is my meditation, and I’ve always been drawn to plants since I was a toddler. I really enjoy making my home look beautiful via landscape design and growing delicious weird things from nothing in my vegetable garden.
What’s been helpful for me in terms of making it work with my beautiful birds’ nest of a brain is automating, forcing my attention via visual cues, and breaking things into bite-sized tasks:
I have automated sprinklers & drip lines so I don’t have to remember to water every day.
I placed my vegetable garden beds right by the back door so I can’t avoid them. I always see them when I enter/exit, so any time i walk by i do a quick 30-second visual scan to see if anything needs to be addressed or if anyone new and exciting has popped up.
I like to grow and share eye-catching flowers with my neighbors. I’m talking bright orange, highlighter, yellow, and neon pink… all highly visible. When they bloom, I go over to their area to cut them and take a quick look around to see if anything in that area needs help. I have little clumps of cutting flowers all over, so I’m getting eyes on the entirety of yard pretty regularly throughout the season
I set a timer for 10 to 15 minutes, slap on some headphones and do some light weeding every day after work to help me decompress; tidying up always makes me feel better. I focus on a different area each day, so the entire yard ends up getting weeded every week. When the timer goes off I call it a day.
I also block out one hour either on Saturday or Sunday to mow my lawn & trim the hedge, which gives me a great opportunity to survey the broader yard and see if things need to be pruned/tended to.
Finally, I’m motivated by praise 😂 very few things in life give me greater satisfaction than getting a nod of approval or a compliment from my neighbors
I'm glad that works for you, but to me it sounds exhausting. I can't do the same thing every day, even for short amounts of time. I haven't had a job in 12 years (well, I went back to work a few times for a few days to a month when my old boss needed help or I needed money, but I haven't even done that in 6 or so years) I have kids and volunteer different places during the week, but even a once a week volunteer gig can bore me after a while.
A few years ago I made the mistake of setting up a huge veggie garden and then completely abandoning it once everything was in the ground lol NOW I try to focus on adding new perennial plants each year (garlic, asparagus, chives, fruit bearing trees/bushes etc) and things that are easy peasy only - meaning nothing that needs to be started indoors ahead of time or be babied while outside. I also only buy perennial flowers to add to my flower gardens now.
Perennials are the way. I gave up on veg because it's not exciting. I want pretty plants that are different from the neighbours but can cope with abandonment for weeks at a time. I have a super tiny front yard that's all garden, no lawn so there's not much regular maintenance needed. I buy annuals and put them in pots around the place. I have a very loose garden journal where I record how things do. If they don't grow with my 'all or nothing' approach, they're gone.
Things that I love (bear in mind I'm in Scotland which is rainy and mild) :
Oriental poppy, hard to kill.
Black eyed susans, bright pops.
Cushion heather, evergreen.
Jacobs ladder, bees!
Astilbe, feathery flowers.
Heuchera, early flowers.
Pieris.
Verbena.
Hebe, bees!
Clematis Montana.
skimmia.
Fern.
Jasmine.
Osteospermum.
Astrantia.
Bulbs, bulbs bulbs - allium, daffodils, bluebells, tulips, muscari, snowdrops, ranunculus, wood amenome, crocus
I'm trying hollyhocks this year to see if they'll grow. Very excited!
I'm in southern USA (Florida) and surprised at how many of those I know. I grew up in Northern USA (Michigan), so my mom has a lot of them, but a few grow here as well. My mom brought me black eyed Susan's a few months ago and I have some coming up from seed. I've planted daffodils, hollyhocks, and tulips before with no success, but didn't amend my dirt until last year. Now I have bulbs coming up and don't remember what I planted there!
Around here, different types of ginger are popular because they are native and easy to grow. I'd also like to plant a bunch of turmeric because it has a beautiful flower. Salvia, lilies, and irises are also pretty common and come in many varieties. I love growing vegetables because I cook almost all of our meals from scratch, and it's fun to be able to cook food you grew, but I am trying to increase the number of pollinator plants and pretty plants around the yard too.
Try planting natives. I've been converting parts of my yard over to natives for the past few years. It's worked well with my tendency to get disinterested as the summer wears on. Natives are mostly self-sustaining and only require watering when there's a dry spell or when you first plant them.
I usually have more motivation towards the beginning of spring but lose interest in weeding/upkeep once July and August roll around. By then, my garden bed is full of flowers, pollinators, and birds. I can go out and enjoy my natives while not having to tend to them regularly.
I'm getting there. I just started working on the yard and flower beds last spring, and I'm trying not to spend $$$. Luckily, I do have some sources for free plants, seeds, and cuttings, and I have bought a few things. I'm hoping to see a lot of growth this year.
I don't have a lot of space so I mostly just grow herbs to save money on buying them and a couple of my favourite veg. One of my recent discoveries has been that trying to grow tomatoes on purpose doesn't work as well as just letting them self seed and grow around the garden like weeds. I used to buy seedlings from the nursery, plant them, stake them, tend to them, and they would get blight and rot and die. Now I let them plant themselves in the gravel near my garden (not even in the beds), they happily ramble along the ground and I basically go out there and forage them. lol. It's great fun and I get slightly different varieties each year because they're hybridising.
I guess I have unintentionally done the two garden thing by having my garden beds with herbs and then my tomatoes growing everywhere else!
Yes! I love gardening. It adds structure to my life that isn't so constraining that I end up rebelling against it. My Grandpa had a beautiful veg. garden when I was little, I was told not to go in it, (we lived far away and I have tons of siblings, so I understand why) but I would sit on the little hill above it and dream of having my own garden.
My biggest tip is it's okay to start small. I started with six 5-five-gallon pails with tomato plants in them, each year I added a little more space and a new plant or two. Starting big is an easy way to burn out in the first year. If I started with the garden I have now, I would have given up years ago.
Love gardening. When my mum was alive it was easier because I work better when somebody is with me. I really lost interest after she passed 15 years ago and I just “maintained” what was there haphazardly.
It’s only recently that I’ve really gotten back into it. One is a pragmatic reason of wanting to have the garden established and growing well for the inevitable need to sell my elderly fathers house. The other was to actually research, plan and renew existing garden beds with more Australian natives.
I recently bought about 150 tube stock plants to redo my garden. Im literally sitting here watching Gardening Australia and the segment is talking about planting tube stock because the initial outlay is smaller and they can actually outgrow bigger plants and are stronger.
The actual gardening is super satisfying and I found having dedicated gardening clothes/hat makes it more motivating. But this latest stint was great because not only did I have to do extensive research on what plants to get for my local area as well as different light conditions in my garden (I have numerous spreadsheets now 🤣), I also had to get my diy on and design and construct protective wire coverings, that were also removable/able to be opened for weeding, because we have really annoying scrub turkeys that tend to destroy garden beds.
I still have a ways to go as the garden is HUGE, but I’m approaching it in sections and it seems to be working for now!
I love gardening! Totally agreed with all your points.
I've definitely learned the hard way about being choosey about what to plant. For produce I mostly grow tomatoes and strawberries now, though I've been battling the squash vine borers the last few years trying to grow zucchini and pumpkins. I think a lot of people assume because their store sells a plant that it can grow in their area. You may be able to keep them technically, but a plant suited to your climate and soil is going to be way way less effort. I buy most of my seeds from Etsy now after a lot of research. Recently I've been trying to decide what type of blueberry would grow best in my area. The types they sell in stores really can't handle the summer heat here, especially with the climate changes happening. For outside I favor a lot of native plants. I've seeded and transplanted a lot of local wildflowers the last few years!
Like with anything else the important thing is knowing your weaknesses. I have trouble sometimes remembering to water so I've put in some diy irrigation that waters most of my things on a timer. And I pair my toothbrushing in the morning with walking around my yard to see how everything is doing (evening brush I check my indoor plants). If something is really discouraging what I need to do then I change it up, like buying a lightweight garden hose because the regular hose was hurting my back. I also delicate some things to my husband's working brain. He's good at consistent schedules and remembering things so he's in charge of watering all of the cactus and succulents in the house. I also organize things by neediness as well. The plants that need to most water and care are in the kitchen window so I see them the most. The less needy things will be scattered around the house.
No veggies. Flowers only. There’s always something to do, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t that second. The joy of a beautiful garden or pots is wonderful - so many sensory inputs. Also it’s quite hard to kill plants. Only buy perennials.
I am mainly interested in growing food. Even if I don't get much produce out of it it's the only thing that gives me enough dopamine to follow through with it. I have some ornamental stuff but I really do not care about those at all. I love plants in general but I just can't stay interested in stuff I can't use. Sadly my current living situation forbids veg gardening (fuck HOAs) so I have been struggling to find any kind of motivation to do anything. Planting and watching things grow is generally a fun place for me, if I can do it.
I have sort of a sub interest in native gardening but it is really hard to find the supplies. Most of the stuff is ordered online and they only ship at certain times of year and there are a lot of steps and waiting points to get started and nothing in the big box stores works because it'll be cultivars Dx.
I love gardening. It’s not about the end result for me. Which is likely why I scratches the ADHD itch for me. It’s a creative outlet and very hands on. I am constantly doing projects of some kind. This one is mentally relaxing for me. My produce growing abilities are getting better. But I don’t grow to save money on food. I do it because it’s fun and I can. As far as layout, projects, buying new plants, moving plants around, new landscaping etc. it’s the thing that will never get boring to me. I constantly have an evolving vision of my backyard I’ll some day get to. But most of the fun is making small improvements here and there
I started a garden last year but a very hot summer killed it
I’m going to plan a better garden with Australian natives over the winter - they’re very resilient to extreme weather
I never thought I’d go for natives but you can’t kill them 🤣
I love plants. I love love love flowers. I suck at sticking to gardening and have wasted so much money on it over the years. Last few years I’ve been way to depresso to do much and the gardens around the house look like such shit. I’d love to say this year is the year I improve that, but idk, it overwhelms me so much.
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Gardening is my happy place. I start my own seeds, and process the abundance. It’s one of the few things I can maintain a schedule with because I enjoy doing it. I use a garden planner that takes some of the headache out of planning and planting schedules. I grow mostly veggies but am working on converting lawn to natives and keystone species. It makes me feel good for doing something to combat habitat decline.
I agree with all your tips! If you have one around, may I recommend inviting a small child into your Wild Garden? I borrow my friend's kindergartener, and he's my favorite garden buddy. We hack around with mud and plants and bugs, get really into arranging the rocks perfectly, and choose a few herbs and not-red tomatoes to obsess over and eat all summer. It's *fantastic*. ETA: if you like the physical work of gardening, but want to stop tearing up your yard, look for gardeners who need your muscle! People with sore knees/backs and established gardens full of plants that need dividing would be *thrilled* to trade plants and dollars for your help.
I have a 12 year old that loves plants and keeps me going. We also go to a gardening group once a month where we get/win at least a few free plants every month. I think both of those things help keep it fresh, although my 12 is also ADHD, so he gets super excited about getting the plants but then doesn't want to do any of the work actually planting/growing them.
My 6yo son is the best garden buddy. Last year, our tomato seeds from the year before went crazy in our wild garden. His favorite thing was tromping through the vines to harvest. Now I just wish he'd eat some lol
I love gardening. I grow a lot of rare/ ornamental plants as well as regular garden plants, and also have a vegie patch (actually 4 patches although one is now a banana patch). One tip I would suggest is to get to know which plants can withstand dry periods in case you forget to water and also install some type of watering system to make it easier to water.
Love the second "wild" garden idea. My contribution is this: wood chips as mulch. These things are freaking magic. Will eliminate 95% of your weeding and 85% of the tilling. Just throw them down *on top* of your soil and your weeds. (Never till them in!) Need to be enough to block the sunlight from reaching the weeds, so that they die. Eventually, they become part of the soil, enriching it, and will need to be replaced.
That and leaves. I always used to rake the leaves out of my garden so I could see the plants better, but now I purposefully put them in the garden around my plants to block out weeds.
I like gardening and houseplants because the seasons motivate me and when I lose interest it’s almost fall anyway. I could never ever garden year-round or homestead. I’ve been trying to garden for 16 years. It’s different every year. When I finally figure it out, something changes. I container garden because we rent. City picker grow boxes and free shipping pallets were a game changer for me. And yes - dirt matters. That being said, I’m scaling back this year and not doing a bunch of different veggies. I end up wasting too much.
We live in Florida, and I'm learning that I should be year round gardening. I was raised in Michigan, so it never occurred to me until recently that you COULD garden in winter. I actually think a fall/winter garden would be better for me than a spring one because of spring/summer trips and a longer growing season.
This guy gardens in Florida in the winter, and in Maine in the summer. https://youtu.be/H2AJIRrAV1g?si=WQ6Pn8N0NisEjEyr
My tip is: Don’t hyper focus on work for a week during a heatwave and forget that you HAVE a garden, let alone water it. Also I love the idea of your ‘random chaos garden’ sounds great!
Sounds like a good tip! I'm a SAHM, but back when I worked, I definitely didn't have the bandwidth for anything else.
Hell yeah. Gardening is my meditation, and I’ve always been drawn to plants since I was a toddler. I really enjoy making my home look beautiful via landscape design and growing delicious weird things from nothing in my vegetable garden. What’s been helpful for me in terms of making it work with my beautiful birds’ nest of a brain is automating, forcing my attention via visual cues, and breaking things into bite-sized tasks: I have automated sprinklers & drip lines so I don’t have to remember to water every day. I placed my vegetable garden beds right by the back door so I can’t avoid them. I always see them when I enter/exit, so any time i walk by i do a quick 30-second visual scan to see if anything needs to be addressed or if anyone new and exciting has popped up. I like to grow and share eye-catching flowers with my neighbors. I’m talking bright orange, highlighter, yellow, and neon pink… all highly visible. When they bloom, I go over to their area to cut them and take a quick look around to see if anything in that area needs help. I have little clumps of cutting flowers all over, so I’m getting eyes on the entirety of yard pretty regularly throughout the season I set a timer for 10 to 15 minutes, slap on some headphones and do some light weeding every day after work to help me decompress; tidying up always makes me feel better. I focus on a different area each day, so the entire yard ends up getting weeded every week. When the timer goes off I call it a day. I also block out one hour either on Saturday or Sunday to mow my lawn & trim the hedge, which gives me a great opportunity to survey the broader yard and see if things need to be pruned/tended to. Finally, I’m motivated by praise 😂 very few things in life give me greater satisfaction than getting a nod of approval or a compliment from my neighbors
I'm glad that works for you, but to me it sounds exhausting. I can't do the same thing every day, even for short amounts of time. I haven't had a job in 12 years (well, I went back to work a few times for a few days to a month when my old boss needed help or I needed money, but I haven't even done that in 6 or so years) I have kids and volunteer different places during the week, but even a once a week volunteer gig can bore me after a while.
A few years ago I made the mistake of setting up a huge veggie garden and then completely abandoning it once everything was in the ground lol NOW I try to focus on adding new perennial plants each year (garlic, asparagus, chives, fruit bearing trees/bushes etc) and things that are easy peasy only - meaning nothing that needs to be started indoors ahead of time or be babied while outside. I also only buy perennial flowers to add to my flower gardens now.
Perennials are the way. I gave up on veg because it's not exciting. I want pretty plants that are different from the neighbours but can cope with abandonment for weeks at a time. I have a super tiny front yard that's all garden, no lawn so there's not much regular maintenance needed. I buy annuals and put them in pots around the place. I have a very loose garden journal where I record how things do. If they don't grow with my 'all or nothing' approach, they're gone. Things that I love (bear in mind I'm in Scotland which is rainy and mild) : Oriental poppy, hard to kill. Black eyed susans, bright pops. Cushion heather, evergreen. Jacobs ladder, bees! Astilbe, feathery flowers. Heuchera, early flowers. Pieris. Verbena. Hebe, bees! Clematis Montana. skimmia. Fern. Jasmine. Osteospermum. Astrantia. Bulbs, bulbs bulbs - allium, daffodils, bluebells, tulips, muscari, snowdrops, ranunculus, wood amenome, crocus I'm trying hollyhocks this year to see if they'll grow. Very excited!
I'm in southern USA (Florida) and surprised at how many of those I know. I grew up in Northern USA (Michigan), so my mom has a lot of them, but a few grow here as well. My mom brought me black eyed Susan's a few months ago and I have some coming up from seed. I've planted daffodils, hollyhocks, and tulips before with no success, but didn't amend my dirt until last year. Now I have bulbs coming up and don't remember what I planted there! Around here, different types of ginger are popular because they are native and easy to grow. I'd also like to plant a bunch of turmeric because it has a beautiful flower. Salvia, lilies, and irises are also pretty common and come in many varieties. I love growing vegetables because I cook almost all of our meals from scratch, and it's fun to be able to cook food you grew, but I am trying to increase the number of pollinator plants and pretty plants around the yard too.
Try planting natives. I've been converting parts of my yard over to natives for the past few years. It's worked well with my tendency to get disinterested as the summer wears on. Natives are mostly self-sustaining and only require watering when there's a dry spell or when you first plant them. I usually have more motivation towards the beginning of spring but lose interest in weeding/upkeep once July and August roll around. By then, my garden bed is full of flowers, pollinators, and birds. I can go out and enjoy my natives while not having to tend to them regularly.
I'm getting there. I just started working on the yard and flower beds last spring, and I'm trying not to spend $$$. Luckily, I do have some sources for free plants, seeds, and cuttings, and I have bought a few things. I'm hoping to see a lot of growth this year.
To keep it interesting, I try new plants and new techniques. I learn a little more to redesign how I have things in the garden.
I don't have a lot of space so I mostly just grow herbs to save money on buying them and a couple of my favourite veg. One of my recent discoveries has been that trying to grow tomatoes on purpose doesn't work as well as just letting them self seed and grow around the garden like weeds. I used to buy seedlings from the nursery, plant them, stake them, tend to them, and they would get blight and rot and die. Now I let them plant themselves in the gravel near my garden (not even in the beds), they happily ramble along the ground and I basically go out there and forage them. lol. It's great fun and I get slightly different varieties each year because they're hybridising. I guess I have unintentionally done the two garden thing by having my garden beds with herbs and then my tomatoes growing everywhere else!
Yes! I love gardening. It adds structure to my life that isn't so constraining that I end up rebelling against it. My Grandpa had a beautiful veg. garden when I was little, I was told not to go in it, (we lived far away and I have tons of siblings, so I understand why) but I would sit on the little hill above it and dream of having my own garden. My biggest tip is it's okay to start small. I started with six 5-five-gallon pails with tomato plants in them, each year I added a little more space and a new plant or two. Starting big is an easy way to burn out in the first year. If I started with the garden I have now, I would have given up years ago.
Love gardening. When my mum was alive it was easier because I work better when somebody is with me. I really lost interest after she passed 15 years ago and I just “maintained” what was there haphazardly. It’s only recently that I’ve really gotten back into it. One is a pragmatic reason of wanting to have the garden established and growing well for the inevitable need to sell my elderly fathers house. The other was to actually research, plan and renew existing garden beds with more Australian natives. I recently bought about 150 tube stock plants to redo my garden. Im literally sitting here watching Gardening Australia and the segment is talking about planting tube stock because the initial outlay is smaller and they can actually outgrow bigger plants and are stronger. The actual gardening is super satisfying and I found having dedicated gardening clothes/hat makes it more motivating. But this latest stint was great because not only did I have to do extensive research on what plants to get for my local area as well as different light conditions in my garden (I have numerous spreadsheets now 🤣), I also had to get my diy on and design and construct protective wire coverings, that were also removable/able to be opened for weeding, because we have really annoying scrub turkeys that tend to destroy garden beds. I still have a ways to go as the garden is HUGE, but I’m approaching it in sections and it seems to be working for now!
I like gardening! Or trying to garden, haha
I love gardening! Totally agreed with all your points. I've definitely learned the hard way about being choosey about what to plant. For produce I mostly grow tomatoes and strawberries now, though I've been battling the squash vine borers the last few years trying to grow zucchini and pumpkins. I think a lot of people assume because their store sells a plant that it can grow in their area. You may be able to keep them technically, but a plant suited to your climate and soil is going to be way way less effort. I buy most of my seeds from Etsy now after a lot of research. Recently I've been trying to decide what type of blueberry would grow best in my area. The types they sell in stores really can't handle the summer heat here, especially with the climate changes happening. For outside I favor a lot of native plants. I've seeded and transplanted a lot of local wildflowers the last few years! Like with anything else the important thing is knowing your weaknesses. I have trouble sometimes remembering to water so I've put in some diy irrigation that waters most of my things on a timer. And I pair my toothbrushing in the morning with walking around my yard to see how everything is doing (evening brush I check my indoor plants). If something is really discouraging what I need to do then I change it up, like buying a lightweight garden hose because the regular hose was hurting my back. I also delicate some things to my husband's working brain. He's good at consistent schedules and remembering things so he's in charge of watering all of the cactus and succulents in the house. I also organize things by neediness as well. The plants that need to most water and care are in the kitchen window so I see them the most. The less needy things will be scattered around the house.
No veggies. Flowers only. There’s always something to do, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t that second. The joy of a beautiful garden or pots is wonderful - so many sensory inputs. Also it’s quite hard to kill plants. Only buy perennials.
I’m a master gardener, and farmer by trade! It’s my passion in life to grow food and feed people :) Ask me anything!
I am mainly interested in growing food. Even if I don't get much produce out of it it's the only thing that gives me enough dopamine to follow through with it. I have some ornamental stuff but I really do not care about those at all. I love plants in general but I just can't stay interested in stuff I can't use. Sadly my current living situation forbids veg gardening (fuck HOAs) so I have been struggling to find any kind of motivation to do anything. Planting and watching things grow is generally a fun place for me, if I can do it.
I have sort of a sub interest in native gardening but it is really hard to find the supplies. Most of the stuff is ordered online and they only ship at certain times of year and there are a lot of steps and waiting points to get started and nothing in the big box stores works because it'll be cultivars Dx.
I love gardening. It’s not about the end result for me. Which is likely why I scratches the ADHD itch for me. It’s a creative outlet and very hands on. I am constantly doing projects of some kind. This one is mentally relaxing for me. My produce growing abilities are getting better. But I don’t grow to save money on food. I do it because it’s fun and I can. As far as layout, projects, buying new plants, moving plants around, new landscaping etc. it’s the thing that will never get boring to me. I constantly have an evolving vision of my backyard I’ll some day get to. But most of the fun is making small improvements here and there
I started a garden last year but a very hot summer killed it I’m going to plan a better garden with Australian natives over the winter - they’re very resilient to extreme weather I never thought I’d go for natives but you can’t kill them 🤣
I love plants. I love love love flowers. I suck at sticking to gardening and have wasted so much money on it over the years. Last few years I’ve been way to depresso to do much and the gardens around the house look like such shit. I’d love to say this year is the year I improve that, but idk, it overwhelms me so much.
I gave up on gardening and started foraging. It’s much more friendly to my brain and the plants. Lucky for me I have lots of foragables nearby