I loved this. I’m in Scotland, so very different climate but good lessons learned here. We moved into a house with a perfectly manicured garden, the previous owners were in their 80s and out all the time, so a weed never dared peek above the soil. We work full time (me sometimes in another country) and have a young kid, so the garden has had to adapt. Sometimes I give my son a strainer with green manure seeds or wildflower seeds and have him go shake above any bare earth he sees. We’ve got poppies everywhere, and lots of things popping up. We pulled up some of the pavers, and just randomly dug in all the old seeds sitting in the greenhouse and a surprising number have popped up.
Ohhh I love that strainer idea I have to try that with our little boy!! Totally get the struggle of juggling kids and work and gardening - our garden is much more wild and haphazard than it once was. I’m hoping I can get our son obsessed with it soon (he’s 17 months atm) so I can just spend hours out there every day parenting/gardening (there needs to be a hybrid words for those activities combined hehe)
I loved this. I’m in Scotland, so very different climate but good lessons learned here. We moved into a house with a perfectly manicured garden, the previous owners were in their 80s and out all the time, so a weed never dared peek above the soil. We work full time (me sometimes in another country) and have a young kid, so the garden has had to adapt. Sometimes I give my son a strainer with green manure seeds or wildflower seeds and have him go shake above any bare earth he sees. We’ve got poppies everywhere, and lots of things popping up. We pulled up some of the pavers, and just randomly dug in all the old seeds sitting in the greenhouse and a surprising number have popped up.
Ohhh I love that strainer idea I have to try that with our little boy!! Totally get the struggle of juggling kids and work and gardening - our garden is much more wild and haphazard than it once was. I’m hoping I can get our son obsessed with it soon (he’s 17 months atm) so I can just spend hours out there every day parenting/gardening (there needs to be a hybrid words for those activities combined hehe)
Saving this one for sure!
Yay!! Heres to abundant lazy spring blooms! 😍