@Oaktree Love your garden stories and your volunteering, but know how difficult it is to keep on an even keel doing all those things for others. It is part of the answer, but self care needs to be part. We had Chicken Caesar 3 nights ago with my lettuce parsley and spring onion. I am getting used to eating my homegrown green these days which is really nice. The snails have gotten to my cauliflower leaves so it will be small, but my broccoli might be better. First time I have grown the big dudes. It is all the little noticing that keeps me grounded, and daily checking on aspects of my garden. In some way I am so glad I am NOT naturally a perfectionist.
I do believe in process, so I accept the things that happen in the garden as lessons, but not demands to run and immediately start spreading snail bait. I had cats for 20 years and the snail bait was not good for them. I spread it once per year. I am now also not squeamish about squashing a snail. Jeez I was such a wimp in that field and was very Buddhist about all life for many years. Probably a response to all the human loss I have endured. So it is interesting to see how I change over time too. One good thing about no cats is more birds. So for me gardening is about tuning into nature a lot and tending ... but not how it looks.
@TABHang in there
@Owlunar2 Gently Bently Hope you are doing all right.
I have physio this afternoon. I am starting with a worker who is recovery couch oriented and fitness coach, so will be shifting my physio to monthly. I have appreciated the clinic and the 3 individuals who I have interacted with. I will put some work in the garden I did at their location this arvo. Trying to prepare it a bit for the summer onslaught of heat. Doing their garden was necessary for me in the mindset I was in at that time and through Covid. I had became obsessed with digging my own grave, so it was a helpful thing to use my spade and keep digging in plants from my other gardens, and for this garden I received appreciation from the staff, who relayed to me the appreciation their clients gave. So it was very healing for me. I also had done so much physical work and gym in my life that getting endless sets of exercises was pretty boring and it showed them I was not afraid of hard work. Appreciation for my efforts has been sorely lacking in my life. I did feel I was being pretty weird but in the end I became a familiar sight digging, weeding and watering and trimming.
I was also a bit annoyed at all the medical clinics springing up in my neighbourhood with barren gardens reduced by spraying roundup and raking in the dollars. So used it as a vehicle to educate about plants, land management etc.... I could move on to my shrink"s garden?? did plant a couple things that were poisoned... but let it be ...feeling my time now is to shift to more music and reduce my garden commitments to my house, verge, court and guerilla garden. So relinquishing ...
