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Greengage Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 3129 Location: Kildare
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 12:31 pm Post subject: 10 Things I like about gardening. |
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1. I like being outdoors.
2. I like seeing things grow.
3. I like the smell of soil and mown grass.
4. Its meditative.
6.Its a way to communicate with nature.
7.Its great exercise.
8. Meeting other people who like gardening.
9. Free plants.
10. Can you believe I actually get paid for doing something I would do for nothing but dont tell the boss.
What do you like about gardening. |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 31 Dec 2014 Posts: 2029 Location: West Fermanagh
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: 10 Things I like about gardening. |
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I think you have just about covered most of it.!
1. I like being outdoors.
2. I like seeing things grow.
3. I like the smell of soil and mown grass (and leaf mould)
4. Its meditative. (on a good day almost spiritual)
6. Its a way to communicate with nature.
7. Its great exercise. (if sometimes exhausting!)
8. Meeting other people who like gardening. (doesn't happen nearly often enough)
9. It's creative
10. The satisfaction of a day well spent _________________ Be humble, for you are made of earth
Be noble, for you are made of stars |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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What was number 5 again, I seem to have missed it! _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 31 Dec 2014 Posts: 2029 Location: West Fermanagh
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Ooops - trust you to notice that - smarty pants!
5. - Not having someone looking over your shoulder saying 'you missed a bit'.
So then Tagwex, what are your favourite 9, sorry, 10 things? _________________ Be humble, for you are made of earth
Be noble, for you are made of stars |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Exact same as you Auntie Sue!!
5. Eaaaaaating the produce. _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 5:14 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure I'm quite as spiritual as that but, to stand outside on a warm summer's evening after having a shower, and with a cuppa in hand, looking at rows of (near) perfect plants growing, with the lawns neatly mowed, gives that almost smug sense of achievement that's hard to beat? Possibly more of a 'man thing'. _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 31 Dec 2014 Posts: 2029 Location: West Fermanagh
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:00 am Post subject: |
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No, I get that. Sometimes when I go to the garden I did for my friend I look around with pride and immense satisfaction as say to myself 'I did this!' Perhaps the biggest contribution I have made to planet Earth (but I never normally tell anyone it sounds so big headed)
 _________________ Be humble, for you are made of earth
Be noble, for you are made of stars |
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kindredspirit Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 10 Nov 2008 Posts: 2300 Location: Mid-west.
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 7:35 am Post subject: |
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There's nowt wrong in being proud of something you've done well. Admitting it is OK but best to leave it there? _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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Ado 2 Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 1204 Location: Dublin
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 8:53 am Post subject: |
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I love the fact that when you don't have time to tidy and some bits get overgrown or when the nettles have a better display than the sweet pea I can say it's a wild garden and it is helping the butterflies etc also it's little miracles that happen ( like wild flower seeds getting dropped in by the birds) the baby birds and their mothers eating the greenfly off my lupins and the earwigs getting into my peppers. I also have a load of plums, I picked them all green and all cos the wasps got them last year. They are quickly ripening on my kitchen table. So delicious ! Plus the sweet cucumbers, nothing like the watery excuse of cucumber you can buy . I love my garden |
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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I think you have all covered everything I can think of. I suppose one other thing I like is the constant surprises: a sudden waft of scent, an unexpected gleam of colour when the light catches something, the sight of berries ripening and knowing the birds will have them, watching a blackbird eating a slug.......
I like surprises. _________________ ~ 'Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities' ~ Voltaire |
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Ado 2 Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 1204 Location: Dublin
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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Hey that's a topic all on its own just there. Garden surprises. It's all a surprise isn't it and a delight |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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Never surprises me that those ******* weeds come again and again and again and out compete everything else. _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Never surprises me that the ******* weeds come again and again and again and again and out compete everything else. _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Ado 2 Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 1204 Location: Dublin
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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A bit like those ..... Over and over again ha. Only in Wexford |
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