leafygreens

I’m mum to my 16 month old daughter Jasmine. I started gardening on my 21st birthday when my elder sister who I was living with at the time bought me some tools although she was skeptical I’d actually continue, thinking it was a passing phase. Being a stay at home full-time-care mum now without my family around means I have had little time to care for my garden since her birth and it’s looking rather overgrown and skanky. I miss it and want to get back out there more, so when I could be resting or doing housework during my daughter’s currently 2 hr naps, instead I’m rushing outside to weed a patch of the yard or to prune back some monstrous bush.

Over the years I’ve had some successes and many failures, but I’ve changed my approach nowadays. When I started out back then I expected to dig, plant, and for that to be pretty much the sum of it for each crop. I wasn’t thinking climate-suitable crops, pest control, easy to grow plants, just a couple of plants to focus on growing per season, or economically friendly – since I didn’t know how much $ a garden can eat up each season for little return or effect if you’re inexperienced and/or buy things frequently.

Now I’m happy to focus my precious little time on growing things that do well in my area, patient enough to propagate plants, and I focus on perennials where I can rather than annuals.