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Title: works for me :)
Post by: trishs on June 30, 2013, 01:18:41 AM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/29/alys-fowler-gardening-makes-you-happy?CMP=twt_gu

Title: Re: works for me :)
Post by: Eric Hardy on June 30, 2013, 10:18:30 AM

Great, Trish. Glad to find another Guardian reader  ;)

Eric H

Title: Re: works for me :)
Post by: Palustris on June 30, 2013, 01:37:27 PM

Don't work for me. It just leads to an empty purse, sore back, filthy hands, frustration and disappointment.

Title: Re: works for me :)
Post by: ideasguy on June 30, 2013, 03:08:12 PM

Yes, I can relate to that :) Good find Trish.

I hate to admit it but there is some pleasure in weeding. Rather fortunate, as it amounts to easily 90% of my gardening time.
Even my son made a surprise statement when he spent a while in the garden here, describing the experience as therapeutic :)

If anyone wants to feel the happiness, I can supply an abundance of the "materials" :D
As for Mycobacterium vaccae, that seems to work for my slugs and snails ;D

Title: Re: works for me :)
Post by: Eric Hardy on July 01, 2013, 11:57:57 AM

I have just spent some time crouching over our gourgette plants removing a plentiful supply of weeds. My 86 year old back is feeling it and I am beginning to think I agree with the other Eric on this score  ;D. There was a time though when I felt differently.     

Incidentally, those wretched muntjac deer have been removing the leaves  :( so I have just put some netting over them (I know, stable doors and bolting horses and all that)  :)

Eric H