I tagged this with spring and winter flowers, as it seems like spring , but winter is surely not over yet. As I've had more time this week I've been collecting a bag of the well rotted manure from the farm every day and I tip it into my compost bins. One bin was mostly filled with weeds, the other mostly with grass clippings and then autumn leaves. I eat a lot of fruit and veg so any peelings, skins, cores etc... all go in as well. I have three bins and a fourth one is dismantled , in future I'm going to place the empty bin right on top of a veggy bed.. so once its 'cooked' I can just lift it and spread the compost.. currently when I have to empty the bins.. not likely till the end of this summer... I'll have to get them tipped over and mostly onto a tarpaulin and then move it to where its needed. More thought.. less lifting.
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less thought -- more doing! (the mantra that needs to happen here but hasn't exactly happened yet -- LOL?)
but yes, as years go by, it becomes more true... needing to think before we commit to a certain way of doing is critical in order to know how to do less to achieve more... this advice as in look for even more than the two-for-oners!
p.s. i need more flowers
hopefully the weather will play fair for more flowers, but I don't know what will be coming up or when,
by mid march the daffodills will likely be popping up, so hang on in there little tomato!
(on display outside at the grocery/everthing store right now are primroses $2, hellebores $8, and cyclamen $4... these are better than usual prices... but didn't fall for it... as yet... may be one day?)
OK, so this post of yours inspired me to start all kinds of flower seed in the wee hours this morning. Seed that I'd self-saved from this garden as far back as 2017, 2016... So now I am hoping for 9 foot tall regular foxglove, white foxglove, blue lupine, viola, & more... Really, don't need any more foxglove, but it's free -- so hey?! The hummingbirds and bumblebees really seem to love them at at 9 foot tall may be they could provide some kind of privacy screen? That is what is needed most.
A bit of a gamble and I am shamed-faced that only the viola is edible (my main goal is for useful plants), but the only expense for today was potting soil I purchased last year on sale. Right now all is clutter inside the house and terribly in our way... So it will have to move outside soon. I tried to be patient and wait until way more sensible March, but right now need the hope of seeing more flowers! This is seed therapy! The hellebore & other purchases are on hold for some other possible future year or may be not even at all. So I enjoy seeing yours.
edible is good, but think of the rest as food for the soul, lovely to look at a garden full of flowers
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