I never thought any of our lads would become obsessed with gardening like yours truly and me, myself and I.
Number 2 son moved a couple of hours away last year.
We weren't happy bunnies and it's the same feeling most parents have to experience and all little birds have to fly the nest some time.
One day we visited them and somehow I was talked into digging off a big border of gravel courtesy of a borrowed shovel from next door and pulling up a big sheet of polythene. The gravel was deposited on top of gravel on another border.
I pulled out any weeds and was impressed with the rich and fertile soil. He was going to make a flower garden.
I visited him again and gave him the left over plants from a close by car boot sale we had just visited. Then we arranged them on the border and guess who got the job of planting them?
He also bought bedding plants and a rose tree and we gave him some more plants. Especially my Cape Daisies and Shasta Daisies. Daisies are my plant autograph and you always know when I have planted up a garden. It will contain my Daisies.
He purchased some ornamental bark and a lot of his neighbours commented on his 'new' garden and how they would like a garden like it.
He's actually taken an interest in gardening and he even grew lettuce in a hanging basket.
I can't persuade him to put his name down for an allotment yet but he does want to container garden next year and grow vegetables.
Now we text each other about his garden and the latest plant offers in Aldi or Lidl.
I told him he could get a big bag of daffodils from Lidl for ten Euros.
The other day he drove home and presented me with a quarter of a bag of daffodils. He said he'd got tired planting his ones.
I have planted them in one of my old decking plank raised beds.
When I was planting them I thought:
"Bye Jove He's Got It!"
At least one of our lads like gardening!
A chip off the old block. I hope you post some photos of his new garden.
ReplyDeleteThanks JayCee. The young need to grow and garden for the future generations.
ReplyDeleteI got some cheap bulbs today from B&Q for clay pots on my patio i do love a collection every spring. I am hoping to get a few different types this year, which will cost more, I always look forward to having pots of blooms in the spring. My flower beds are full of daffs which I never dig out.
ReplyDeleteI think bulbs do best in pots and containers Marlene or in grassland. I always disturb them in borders. I have planted them in a raised bed so I know where they are and they don't take up any room. I will be planting my winter onions soon.
ReplyDeleteNot seen the winter onions on sell yet.
DeleteNo. It's usually September. You can plant the sets up to November. You can plant garlic in Autumn. But it gets too wet here and prefers to grow indoors or on a ridge.
ReplyDeleteFantastic! And thanks for the reminder to get myself some bulbs.
ReplyDeleteYes Jules. Wilkinson's and the discount supermarkets usually sell them cheap at this time of year. If you want the pedigree cultivars go to the garden centres.
ReplyDeleteLike father like son!
ReplyDeleteHopefully Debby. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.😊
ReplyDeleteIsn't it such a relief when they get into gardening!
ReplyDeleteI never thought it would happen. I thought we had immunised him against growing things GZ. My Irish grandfather had a big vegetable garden and sold cabbage plants in Bantry Square. Perhaps growing is in the gene's?
DeleteThat's absolutely wonderful. You have avid gardener there... A buddy/budding one 😁. It's such a pleasure being able to talk shop with a young one
ReplyDeleteYes Linda. It's probably the only subject that I know to talk to him about. My other son is more in his pigs. At least they provide me with lots of fym for the veg plot.
ReplyDeleteA chip off the old block but where is Number 2 sprog living now? Limerick? Tipperary? Waterford? You don't need to supply the address!
ReplyDeleteNorth Cork YP.
ReplyDeleteMy children were not interested but my son in law is. He’s growing herbs in containers. They don’t have much room
ReplyDeleteI’m now concentrating on the granddaughters. They love being in the garden with me.
That's great news Angela. You can grow a lot in containers. Can you rent allotments where your son in law lives? I rented several. Your teaching your granddaughters life skills. That's wonderful Angela.
ReplyDeleteThese things sometimes take a while to rise to the top of all the things a youngster wants to achieve in their lives. It can happen when achieving and doing something creative and meditative are no longer in conflict for our time.
ReplyDeleteYou are probably right TM. I was in my mid to late twenties before I put my name down for a council allotment. Thirty odd years later I still have the wish and energy to grow my own vegetables and propagate my plants. It would be a very dull life with no garden.
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