Recycled Garden

I forget that sometimes people don't tune into my posts...sorry about that! For the past 3 years I have been in absolute agony with pain in my legs. The total knee replacement didn't work as well as hoped (in my book it was a total failure) and because of that and the arthritis in my right knee other pain issues arose. The doctor put me on new medication last week and after the first dose the pain was gone! I thought it was a fluke but it's been over a week and I haven't had the horrible pains in my legs. The ease of growing and the fact that they will grow nearly anywhere is the main reason that I put in Nasturtiums. We have really bad soil where I live and there is a lot of things that won't grow because of it. We have to add tons of manure, peat, nitrogen and more to get anything to grow. Then there is the issue of the deer coming through and munching down on the plants. If they don't get it the rabbits do. I had planted a really nice herb garden in the park area I am developing for the home owners association and the rabbits wiped it out, including the onion and garlic chives!!! I hope they got a great case of heart burn! I am going to plant some of the nasturtiums in my yard in the planters I made from the four by four inch plastic pieces of end uprights that the neighbors use to make their decks. I hated to see the stuff go to the dump so I scavenged them out of the trailers, and after thinking on it for a bit I decided to turn them into planters. It works great as there is drainage and the roots are kept warm because of the color of the plastic. I have tons of weeds to pull before I start on my yard. I don't like using weed killer as I have three dogs (two are mini Dachshunds) that are all over my yard. I don't like using any chemical with them roaming the yard. I hope you take pictures of your yard as it starts growing, it would be fantastic to see it developing.

Actually the deer are really cool. I have had many of them come up and eat right out of my hand. They're only a pain when it comes to eating our gardens. The area I live in is a regular habitat for so many wild animals. Along with the deer we have badgers, big horn sheep, mountain lions, bob cats,skunks, coyotes, red foxes, kit foxes, bald eagles, wild donkeys, and so much more! It is such a wonderful drive to and from town because I never know what we might find on the drive. The nice thing for me about the worms is that I can fish all I want. I have tons of them in my compost pile so I can fish without paying through the nose for bait. I'll have to try the hair for the rabbits. Thank you so much for the hint!

Have you seen the picture in the original post? Hopefully the shrubbery will fill out and the grass will start to make for some good coverage on the lawn. We've reduced the area the grass needs to grow on by adding paving slabs and I hope it helps. The garden is quite literally like a bog, no drainage at all. It's full of worms though! Knee pain, ouch. I've had issues with my knees, one more than the other, since I was quite young. I had tendonitis and then my body was growing too fast for my tendons and ligaments to keep up, so they were stretching and causing pain. Now, they reckon it's because my quads aren't strong enough to hold my knees together properly. First time when I was about 11 or 12 and the issues started after I banged my knee on a bunk bed ladder, they had no idea what it was and put my leg in a cast for 2 weeks! Rabbits - that's why ours have been relegated to the shed! Pity you don't have that option! 'They' do say that rabbits don't like human hair.... You could go to a local salon and put some in some tights and hang it about the place or something... You never know! Deer, you have deer running around? Cool! Well, not for you guys, but to me it is.

Thumbs up to that idea cher. Another one to consider. You know, my gandparents (mother's side, in Holland) used to always replant their Christmas tree outside year after year after Christmas until it was too big to bring back into the house. That tree became the centrepiece of their garden until it was too big for the garden and had to be cut down (they were in a housing estate and out of their little garden it towered out over the houses!

I have to say, we were tempted to put the roll out grass down and hope it would take, but as it is a rented spot, we didn't really want to be spending that kind of money on it. We joked about robbing a few sods off the goal areas at the local school where they had just laid astro turf down lol