@Former-Member@Shaz51@Appleblossom@Faith-and-Hope and anyone else around...
No, my garden is currently just shabby. The only "chic" in it is the feathery one that lays an egg every day or two. 😉
I keep dreaming of the idea of getting it up to display-able standards, but not out of competitiveness. That can get bitter, and takes all the fun out of it. It's more that I'd love to be able to share the garden with other people. I turn 50 in November next year, and it would be lovely to have the garden in a state where I could have a Garden Party to celebrate. Not too sure it'll be possible.
I'm just back from the week at my parents' place. I inherited the gardening bug off them. They've been in aged care for about two years now, but despite being almost completely neglected, their garden still looks surprisingly good. A bit wild, but it's got the right kind of "bones" for that to work. (See photo...)
I think I've mentioned before that I've put in a "plant and neglect" veggie patch in Dad's old garden. It got totally overrun with couch grass as his health and mental function went downhill, so my technique is: cover part of the couch with an 8x4' steel sheet, leave it there for a month or two, move it to another spot, dig out the light starved and leafless couch runners, soak well, plant veggies, then go away for a month or two and see what has survived next time I'm there... Not altogether succesful, but has worked better than you might expect. And it's good "therapy" for me too. 🙂 I picked heaps of Tommy Toe tomatoes last year, despite fruit fly depredations, also some healthy Golden Nugget pumpkins, and a Lebanese Zucchini that had grown into a big hard skinned squash, a bit bigger than a football. I've been planting snowpea and silverbeet/parsley seeds the last couple of visits. Not much of it has come up, but there's the possibility that it's because the soil is cold. Will find out next visit. This time I also stuck in some potatoes that had gone green. Anything I plant needs to be able to be harvested whenever. Something like broccoli that has to be picked at the right time or it shoots up to flower is no good. (If the snowpeas go too far, I can still leave the pods to fully mature and dry so that I have seed for the next year, so they pass requirements... just.)
Speaking of long grass... I couldn't find my shovel when I came back from my last week away to see my parents. Looked all over the yard with no success, was wondering if it might have been pilfered.
Today I was pulling up some weeds right next to where I thought I'd left the shovel... and I spotted its handle sticking up out of the grass. 
That's not quite as bad as it sounds- it had fallen over sideways, but still..???
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