I feel the same way about gardening! It calms me so much and I just feel at peace. Like there is a song playing in my head or a humming around me or something.
And if you wish for something long enough it will happen. But that is more of an intuition gifts group thing.
Welcome to the group!
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hi fellow gardeners
Posted on 10/12/09, 02:07 pm
found this group & would like to join....I am an avid gardener learning as I go....I enjoy gardening as a way of connecting with mother nature as it is calming and soothes my soul....the benefits of fresh food is such a wonderful gift and to be able to can/preserve or freeze things for the winter is an even added bonus given the hard times these days....my only wish is too be able to be well enough to one day have my own self-sustaining hobby farm.....tis a dream right now though....willing it to one day be true
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Reply #1 10/16/09 8:13pm
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Reply #2 10/18/09 11:28am
Thanks for the welcome SageM!! I am still gardening in the house since fall has plunked itself here in my part of the world...all my herbs are on my kitchen windowsill just above my kitchen sink and I have brought my begonias in also....hopefully they will survive through to the spring....
That humming or singing that you hear when you garden is mother natures voice....I hear it too....LOL...but sometimes it is my own humming in my head cause I catch myself humming a tune while I garden :) -
Reply #3 10/19/09 12:55pm
Your very welcome. I miss my garden all ready and it is only fall. Today actually feels like fall. The last two weeks has been very very cold all most like winter. So I am glad we are back on track season wise.
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Reply #4 11/06/09 6:21pm
I'm new to this group. I, have been an avid gardener all my life, the last 10 years have done extensive perennial beds. I'm a seed starter and sell baby perennials off my driveway every spring and it's been a wonderful experience. The peace and harmony with nature helps me get through the stress of every day. "To forget how to dig the earth and how to till the soil is to forget ourselves." Ghandi. -
Reply #5 11/07/09 12:26pm
Hi Annette, welcome to the group!!! How true that is...your quote from Ghandi!!! -
Reply #6 11/08/09 9:29pm
Hi all,
I'm new to the group too! Funny now that it's fall we're all coming in from the cold I suppose?
I've always liked plants and dirt but I've never really had a very green thumb. Still I keep trying! Something unusual happened a couple of weeks ago and as a result I've sort of been tossed into the gardening thing feet first, so I joined this group hoping you all can help and encourage me.
A local landscaper fell on hard times and her house is being foreclosed on her by the bank. To make a long story short, I am adopting all of the plants from her yard and moving them to mine. We are talking about hundreds of plants. They all have to be moved (and hopefully re-planted) by Dec. 31rst!
We've moved about a hundred plants last week, two truckloads full. We live in the SF Bay Area (in the mountains, redwood forests near Santa Cruz) so it very rarely gets below freezing here and it hasn't really gotten rainy here yet. Yesterday we turned our porch into a big cold-frame and today I transplanted a bunch of salvias...
...geez, it's such a big project I don't know where to start writing about it. Maybe I should just ask you all to please wish me luck. If any of you want to garden vicariously for the next month or so let me know because I will have a TON of questions. The landscape lady is very knowledgeable but she's trying to move. Right now it's just me and my Sunset Western Gardening Book!
That's all for now. I like the Ghandi quote, Annette. I won't be forgetting myself anytime soon! -
Reply #7 11/13/09 3:36pm
Welcome to the group Forgotmath. I really do need to be a better founder and send out hugs to the new-comers but never have a computer these days!
I do wish you much luck! It is a huge project but it is so nice of you to take care of the plants instead of leaving them to die or to grow to be to overbearing.
Always keep trying. Not everyone is born with a green thumb. Sometimes you have to grow your own. No pun intended.
I have always loved nature but never got into it much as a child because I was to ocd! OCD and dirt do not mix! ha ha. But now that it doesnt bother me I have discovered that I do have a green thumb. I am the only one who has ever been able to grow roses and I have one plant in my garden that get gigantic. Everyone says they have never seen them get that big before....I have the name written down but dont feel like going to go fetch it at the moment. -
Reply #8 11/14/09 10:59pm
Thanks SageM,
Well I'm still at it! On friday I brought another 30 or so plants home. I have to dig each one carefully out of her yard and then push the soil back where it used to be so it doesn't look like a wild boar was rooting around, since the landscape lady I'm getting the plants from is still hoping maybe someone will buy her house. SO just getting those plants out and home took most of the day. I got the half-dozen that looked the most unhappy to be stuck in pots into the ground today but I had other errands to run too and it gets dark so darn early now.
I would never have imagined as a kid that I would be enjoying this kind of thing now. I used to hate the weekends, my parents getting me out of bed to mow the lawn, pick fruit off the trees, weed the garden, rake, haul piles of stuff... I hated physical activity, and besides there were so many icky worms and insects and frogs...I mowed over a frog's leg once and felt terrible about it for a long long time!
But like you with OCD, I grew out of all that. Although I still hate getting up early in the morning.
Congrats to you on the roses. I haven't had much luck with them but I blame my favorite four-letter word on that: D-E-E-R. Just this year we finally put some cheap fencing around almost all of our property so now if Bambi and her closest friends drop by they'll have to use the front entrance, and hopefully I'll see them first.
Oh well thanks for writing, I know it's not the time of year really! I'll post if anything exciting happens. So far the only big news is that one of the salvias I transplanted actually bloomed!
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Reply #9 11/16/09 2:56pm
Well thats exciting! When my lilys first bloomed this year I was out there every day and sure enough more and more popped up. My garden isnt as big as I would like and it is still young yet so I am not sure what I am going to do with it but each year it gets a little more and a little more better. My dad killed my climbing red rose bush last year. More like stunted it I guess. Your not supposed to cut them down like you would regular rose bushes and now it wont grow any bigger than the stump though I still got a few flowers from it. I told him not to do it but he apparently thought I was wrong! I even got my white rose bush to be completely healthy and then went to Minnesota to visit family. I left him a full page of instructions most of which pertains to the rose bushes and he didnt follow them so they got sick again! Uhhh!
I look forward to summer and spring each year. I love going plant shopping so I can figure out what I want to do with my garden more.
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