This Isn't Working
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (340278)
Rockingham, Australia
February 25, 2016 12:07am CST
We are not gardeners. We'd sort of like to be but it involves a lot of work, more than we're prepared to put in I guess. We used to have a wilderness of native shrubs which were quite nice but they grew and grew until we couldn't see the kangaroos any more so we pulled most of them out.
There is a tiny garden where I thought I'd like a bit of colour. Some years I've had a colourful display of petunias or calendulas. This year I thought I'd have something different although now I can't remember the name. But something keeps nipping off the tips. I thought it was rabbits so concocted the complicated cover you see in the photo to try to deter them. But it isn't working and looks a real mess so I'll remove all the grilles. There is a nice little grevillea there so he'll have to stay lonely. Do you sometimes give up on trying to find a solution to a problem?
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@allknowing (136601)
• India
25 Feb 16
Here in India we are used to getting help for gardening that involves labour. Of late we are not getting labour as before. I have pepper creepers right up the areca nut trees. We have climbers that do that job for us but this year they are nowhere to be seen. I therefore asked our maid to pull down those creepersw and harvest the pepper. i will get the creepers trimmed so that they only grow at a reachable height.
We need to cut down when our dreams are not reachable - sounds like a pun. Right? (lol).
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@sofssu (23662)
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26 Feb 16
@JudyEv sometimes the solutions aren't very difficult.. they are simple and easy. IT probably is some bug or worm.. just spread some borax around your plant atleast 8 inches away from the roots and see if the problem continues after you take off the grills.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
25 Feb 16
I give up sometimes, but in a case like yours my husband would keep at it until he succeeded. Sometimes I wish he would give up!l.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Feb 16
One day there'll be another post showing what we've come up. :)
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
26 Feb 16
@JudyEv The bunnies in our yard have never touched anything in the garden, which is quite a shock.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Feb 16
@AbbyGreenhill Aren't you lucky? They must have enough other good stuff to eat.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
26 Feb 16
yeah, often, I want to repair things around the house and have no idea where to even start!
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
25 Feb 16
When I can't get something to grow I grow what I know will grow to fill the space even if I'm tired of them, if it blooms It lives.
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@Letranknight2015 (51971)
• Philippines
25 Feb 16
my mom garden her plants for sometime only when they over grown and neglected. but i water them everyday to prevent them from dying.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Feb 16
It's good that you water them every day or they would be sure to die.
@simone10 (54187)
• Louisville, Kentucky
25 Feb 16
I do sometimes give up but it really kills me to do so. When we lived in Vegas, we bought to really beautiful petunias that were in baskets. We bought several baskets. After about a month we noticed that some of our flowers looked like they were dying. When I looked closer, there were tiny green worms in our flowers. There must have been worm eggs in the soil when we bought the flowers. We used everything we could to try to get rid of them but nothing worked. Sadly, I had to sit and watch all my flowers die, one by one.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
26 Feb 16
it's a shame something keeps nipping your plant..... as for giving up .... It depends on what area the problem is in... I would probably give up quite quickly in the garden..., and with technology ... but would be more persistant in a jewelry or crafting matter... lol's
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@fawkes62 (1276)
• United States
25 Feb 16
If it's rabbits, they can fit through a fairly small opening (at least the ones here can) so it's possible they are squeezing through somewhere. We had to use chicken wire around our whole garden to keep them out but once had one find it's way under the fence. We found it stuck in the garden, it couldn't find it's way back out. We've also had mice chewing stuff up in our garden, but I have no ideas how to keep them out of it. I like my gardens too much to give up on them, but I have given up on other problems when I can't find a solution to it.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
25 Feb 16
Man I hate when something snips off the tops. For the longest time we had something we didn't know what snipping off the blooms of the tulips. I was pretty unhappy about that. We did finally see a bird doing it. Seems in the past few years they have stopped doing it. We didn't do anything about it just chased away the birds when we saw them near the tulips. Building some type of screened in area would have covered up so many flowers we just didn't want to do something like that.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Feb 16
@JudyEv I could even understand the birds using the flowers in their nests, but they leave them on the ground. Maybe they don't like the color or something.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
25 Feb 16
Maybe artificial flowers will do the trick or a nice shrub. You could always do a rock garden with a little water feature. You are close to a hose!
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Feb 16
There is one little dwarf grevillea there so maybe I'll just plant another. Yes, there is a hose close by :)
@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
25 Feb 16
Oh, I give up on things all the time. I'm easily frustrated.
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@iamshane487 (1139)
• Manila, Philippines
25 Feb 16
It's been many years I am not gardening. Yes, I give up easily.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Feb 16
Do plants grow well there? I should think there would be a lot of greenery around even if you don't garden.
@LadyDuck (471498)
• Switzerland
25 Feb 16
I usually do not give up and try to find different solutions to a problem. We do not have rabbits, but the ants were stealing my salad seeds. I have solved seeding in vases inside the greenhouse and moving the plants to the garden when they are big enough.
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@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Feb 16
All our friends are really good gardeners so I feel I need to at least make an effort.
@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
25 Feb 16
At our last house we had our entire garden surrounded with chicken wire to keep the rabbits from enjoying all of our bounty.
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