Growth

Hi Everyone!

I’ve never had much luck in the field of gardening. When I was younger, the act of gardening would put me in a bad mood. (Possibly didn’t help that I was generally on weed duty.) I have this one memory of my parents asking me to get the dead looking fronds out of the palm lower palm trees. I had looked at the trees and thought “great since the fronds are dead, this will be easy.” Well! After some minutes of pulling and yanking I found myself laying in the garden bed and the Palm Tree had won! Thankfully at this age I did find the situation humorous.

After those teenage years I really didn’t want to get into gardening. But oddly enough found something sweet hearing about trips my Mum and Mummu had made to get new plants for their gardens.

I’m not sure what has happened, but now I have tried my hand at gardening AND IT HAS YIELDED RESULTS!

I’m sooo happy!! Hubby and I have mostly wanted a vege or herb garden, but the occasional flower is FUN also.

I think it mostly started last year. I wanted to try growing something that was ‘easy’, to which my Mum informed growing Impatience are a very hardy flower for the Australian climate and should be an easy first pick for myself. Wellll… yes, they were a good, easy, fun first flower to grow but the didn’t survive long as we had neighbours move in who bred cats and didn’t watch or care for their animals. And so, my little pot plant garden was destroyed.

Then I tried again! Isn’t that the art of growing? Learning to do something and when results don’t work you try and try again?

This time I had purchased some pouches and planting containers where everything is all combine to then grow herbs! These are some of the lot that have been more successful.

I even had the notion one day to try something from scratch. So I experimented putting some Butternut Pumpkin and red and yellow tomato seeds into egg cartons with a bit of soil. This was just as winter was disappearing so I kept the seedlings indoors in case the weather affects too heavily.

After about 8 days (don’t worry I checked for watering needs in between) and was happy to find some little spouts! EXCITING TIMES.

Now it’s all at the stage where they have needed LOTS MORE ROOM – especially the pumpkins.

In my childhood I remember our chickens eating pumpkin scraps, then a large portion of the backyard was filled with pumpkins!

On my birthday this year my parents gave me a mini orchid – instead of a bunch of flowers. I LOVE orchids, and think this is where more of my energy has come from to have more plants to care for.

Over the winter my orchid lost all it’s flowers and I was hoping it would survive the winter and there would be buds for the spring. I am happy to announce it currently still has 7 flowers on it’s small stem. It is the most beautiful looking thing on my kitchen windowsill!

What would I tell my younger self? Get over yourself and get into gardening, the results are JUST AMAZING!

I hope this post has inspired you. If not towards gardening perhaps towards an activity you have always wanted to do but thought ‘no I’m not skilled in that’. GIVE IT A GO! 😊

❤ Bye for now.

Above: the sneaky plants have made their way indoors!