Garden Journal Bi-weekly Newsletter 7th June 2023

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There's a lot going on in gardens all over the world right now. Likely so much that gardeners aren't always finding the time to share. Hopefully our readers can still find a little time to enjoy the features we have this fortnight, though.

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I love @steevc's casual approach to gardening. Not everyone classes themselves as a good gardener, but it shouldn't stop you from enjoying it. I guess now we're in June his experiment with No Mow May is over and he gives us a great overview of how letting nature do its thing can improve wildlife diversity. I feel like the chickens would certainly have enjoyed more insects coming in.
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I'm envious and my mouth is watering after a photo tour through @erikah's fruiting garden. Then as if that wasn't enough she proceeds to take us around her neighbour's garden too! All I can currently show off is my oranges which are starting to ripen. It's been ages since I saw gooseberries. 😁
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This garden caught my eye and what's even better is that it was created by a teacher and her students. They actually made 7th place in a garden challenge. In my opinion you can never go wrong with introducing children to gardening.
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I'm going to wrap up with @matt-archy, because his day 17 post intrigued me and had me looking back through this 30 day challenge he is undertaking. This entry had him admiring weeds, even as he cut them back in his quest to tidy up the garden. I too have relatively recently become an admirer of weeds, although I hadn't thought of them in this way before. Thank you for sharing your journey, Matt, and you will be this fortnight's beneficiary.
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Students garden are full of competition and expected to do well during harvesting as students eye will be in farm they planted till period for harvesting.

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I wish I could have gotten that excitement and competitiveness with my own daughters when they were younger. My oldest does have an interest in plants now, however, so something must have rubbed off. 🙂

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I think we have so many people who own gardens here
It is so good to have them here and I have been able to learn a few things about gardening

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It's a great place to learn. With so many different climate across the world there's always new things to find out.

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It is so good to discover content about garden. One of the things I love growing up is garden

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Around here I would not do No Mow as anything over 8" invites ticks with Lyme disease. I try to keep everything short and wish I could weed like I did 20 years ago....

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Oh gosh, tics! We get them here in Australia too, but not much in the UK, so I guess it's fairly safe there. In South Australia the climate is quite dry, so they aren't as big a problem as in the more tropical states, but we've got the bushfire risks with high growth in summer, so a lot is cut back to avoid that.

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Congratulations to all great farmers in this community. 😊

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