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Signs you have too much garden

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Posted by kitcatclub z5 NY (My Page) on
Fri, Jun 24, 11 at 13:18

Hubby and I are in the middle of a major garden renovation. We got ambitious a couple of years ago and expanded way too much too quickly. The original gardens are now suffering greatly from neglect and we are trying to bring them back under control.

Every single person who has come to visit us in the last year has said some variation of "Your garden is too big", accompanied by their suggestions for cutting back. We started a game where we ask each other how they can tell the garden has gotten out of hand. My favorite so far is "The dog takes the machete with him when he goes out to pee".

Anybody else have some?

KCC

Here is a link that might be useful: The Stubborn Gardener

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You can tell the (flower) garden has gotten out of hand when you are able to pick a nice mess of raspberries from volunteer vines in the flower bed....sigh...I need to downsize and start over.

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This captures me too, but relevant to the forum this is in, it's been because I have too many favourite plants.

Mine would be... when you could fully landscape a friend's house with plants from your garden, and it would improve your own garden if you did.

KarinL... echoing the sigh.

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I decide that the weeds' seeds will be good food for the birds when winter comes, so I just leave them there.

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