I’ve been inventive this year Colette growing strawberries in hanging baskets and veg in old sinks. Anything to help the battle with slugs who last year decimated the salad leaves – we didn’t get one picking.
Lovely photos of your beautiful garden. The nest in the strawberries bought a smile.
Uplifting and inspirational. I’ve been put off by slugs badgers and a squirrel either eating or digging up any food I’ve tried to go but today I try again ! Thank you Colette x
Your precious hanging basket plantings look like a picture book to me. They are beautiful and at the same time they are inspiring, and just so much fun. Colette, you inspired me to buy strawberry plants today. And I found leek seedlings, which are not easily available in our area. I promise not to plant them together in the same container. LOL
Great idea Colette ! I live in not far from you in Leitrim and the slugs in my garden are unbelievable, planting in hanging baskets might just be the answer for me. I think that’s a Robins nest by the way.
Best wishes, Katherine
Hey Colette!
Great minds think alike: I’ve recently started growing a lot of food in containers. San Francisco is so damp, there are a lot of snails and slugs. Also, my yard only has a few sunny spots. I’ve been hanging containers on the fence and growing lettuce and peas. I use compost I make from all the quail poop, plus perlite and coconut coir. I just bought 2 Greenstalk planters. They have 5 tiers each, and I put them on a Lazy Susan so I can spin them to get sun. I’ve got kale, lettuce, peas, beets, carrots, cucumbers, and chard. I have some mini tomatoes and mini peppers started, but I don’t have a lot of hope for them. Tomatoes just shiver and turn black around here.
I’ve also got oregano and thyme in pots, plus cosmos and corn flowers. Fun stuff, eh?
Have had a garden for many years but not as easy now due to disability. Learning to deal with my challenges because I love our little piece of land. Thank you for sorting many new ideas which I am going to try
I’m growing purple sprouting broccoli in a tall raised bed but have put down seed each year so far. I understand it is a perennial as long as you cut all the florets back each year but it grows so huge with great woody trunks that I always start again to save space. Dublin
Dearest Collette, …I found your site by accident, but I believe it was by devine fate ! I too am an empath who feels deeply, cries easily and loves nature and God’s creatures…with all of my being. Thank you for sharing your magical garden.
I say, it’s a “return to Eden”. …the way this world/earth was meant to be. Natural, verdant and green.
I wish I were many years younger. At the mellow and “learn-ed age” of many years.. my one regret in life …is, that I did not follow the ‘path less taken’…the one you are on now. These days I live vicariously through your life’s journey…wishing I had been brave enough to give it a go !
…. thank you again for sharing and caring my dear. Bless you and Patsy, and all those you hold dear. kindest regards, Ann
Wonderful promise of spring. Here in Canada, just before the snow came today, I saw the first brave tips of snow drops. Fierce in the face of -14C. Thanks for all your posts. Your poetry speaks the truth.
Lovely practical gardening tips ….. love seeing your beautiful garden Colette. Thanks for sharing and happy gardening!
You have the best ideas and I love learning new things from you.💚
Thanks Colette. That looks wonderful, I like eclectic gardening too. Hope you are staying well.
Cheers,
Michael
I’ve been inventive this year Colette growing strawberries in hanging baskets and veg in old sinks. Anything to help the battle with slugs who last year decimated the salad leaves – we didn’t get one picking.
Lovely photos of your beautiful garden. The nest in the strawberries bought a smile.
Uplifting and inspirational. I’ve been put off by slugs badgers and a squirrel either eating or digging up any food I’ve tried to go but today I try again ! Thank you Colette x
Your precious hanging basket plantings look like a picture book to me. They are beautiful and at the same time they are inspiring, and just so much fun. Colette, you inspired me to buy strawberry plants today. And I found leek seedlings, which are not easily available in our area. I promise not to plant them together in the same container. LOL
Uplifting especially bird nesting in strawberry patch. From Cleveland Ohio East side Lake Erie is our North.
Great idea Colette ! I live in not far from you in Leitrim and the slugs in my garden are unbelievable, planting in hanging baskets might just be the answer for me. I think that’s a Robins nest by the way.
Best wishes, Katherine
Hey Colette!
Great minds think alike: I’ve recently started growing a lot of food in containers. San Francisco is so damp, there are a lot of snails and slugs. Also, my yard only has a few sunny spots. I’ve been hanging containers on the fence and growing lettuce and peas. I use compost I make from all the quail poop, plus perlite and coconut coir. I just bought 2 Greenstalk planters. They have 5 tiers each, and I put them on a Lazy Susan so I can spin them to get sun. I’ve got kale, lettuce, peas, beets, carrots, cucumbers, and chard. I have some mini tomatoes and mini peppers started, but I don’t have a lot of hope for them. Tomatoes just shiver and turn black around here.
I’ve also got oregano and thyme in pots, plus cosmos and corn flowers. Fun stuff, eh?
all the best,
Lori Z.
Love this! I’ve been growing micro greens in wide mouth mason jars in my front window💚Check out “keep on growin” on YouTube or Whatnot.
You’re true 🩷
Plenty of love , life, light…
Thanks for being
Anne ( France)
Have had a garden for many years but not as easy now due to disability. Learning to deal with my challenges because I love our little piece of land. Thank you for sorting many new ideas which I am going to try
I’m growing purple sprouting broccoli in a tall raised bed but have put down seed each year so far. I understand it is a perennial as long as you cut all the florets back each year but it grows so huge with great woody trunks that I always start again to save space. Dublin
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Dearest Collette, …I found your site by accident, but I believe it was by devine fate ! I too am an empath who feels deeply, cries easily and loves nature and God’s creatures…with all of my being. Thank you for sharing your magical garden.
I say, it’s a “return to Eden”. …the way this world/earth was meant to be. Natural, verdant and green.
I wish I were many years younger. At the mellow and “learn-ed age” of many years.. my one regret in life …is, that I did not follow the ‘path less taken’…the one you are on now. These days I live vicariously through your life’s journey…wishing I had been brave enough to give it a go !
…. thank you again for sharing and caring my dear. Bless you and Patsy, and all those you hold dear. kindest regards, Ann
Beautiful!
Wonderful. I plan to do the something similar but opposite. Transform a barren land to a biodiverse natural forest. One can dream. 🙂
Just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you; always looking forward to your posts.
Wonderful promise of spring. Here in Canada, just before the snow came today, I saw the first brave tips of snow drops. Fierce in the face of -14C. Thanks for all your posts. Your poetry speaks the truth.