Hi everyone,
I've finally discovered this forum and hope it will be more lively than "the other place"! I wondered where everybody was!
I'm gardening in urban Leicester. I have 3 ponds - very small ones, don't go imagining a stately home - and I enjoy them but they're not the main focus of my gardening. I'm tending to use them as a wet environment for MORE PLANTS. It's amazing what things will grow when their pot is immersed in water which you wouldn't expect. I also use my ponds in summer as a hospital area for thirsty and stressed plants - works wonders.
I also enjoy the company of the frogs, even though they frighten the life out of me whenever the jump out of the undergrowth, and waiting for the frogspawn in early spring.
I've actually done some gardening this morning, for the first time in weeks. Tidying the greenhouse, sweeping it out, chucking out the half-dead tomato plants and putting a bit of bubble-wrap on. (I know that frost will come one night.) I have used the same pieces of bubble-wrap for at least 3 years - it is starting to disintegrate a bit but will do another year. Waste not, want not, I say!
I'm glad to find a chatty gardening forum, and I like the format, much easier to negotiate than the GW format.
BFN, Heather.