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So, in another post I talked with another user about a practical advice circle. What we talked about was that some skills are "basic" to make it in life. Sadly they tend to be assigned to a specific sex (think of women in the kitchen and men in the mechanic room🙄). And it reminded me a bit about a documentary about feminists in the 60's (I think) who came together and built their own thing, had their own place and free-time life. They all came with different skill-sets and managed to help each other and teach each other. It was beautiful and stirred a bit of my inner rebel-spirit. Anyway, getting off-track... Maybe we could have a circle to ask other women for help with things we just haven't learned ourselves? I realise I can spend an hour or two searching for a good tutorial on how to best sew in a button or change the wheels of my car, and then spend a couple of attempts failing, only to realise the video was click-bait or just no good... But personally I feel there's a certain strength and beauty in knowing that we, as women, can all help each other. Maybe someone already know of a great way to sew in that button, or someone has a good video on how to change those car wheels.
So beautiful and perfect-looking.
Thank you! I am happy that at least some of the hyacinths weren't completely destroyed.
Some of our hyacinths were destroyed by mice, but some survived. Also, I put the flair "I grew it", but actually it was my partner who grew it. In our family when it comes to plants- my partner does all the planting and potting, I only do the watering.
I love hyacinths!!
Me too! I especially love that you can first buy already blooming one in a tiny pot and then after the flower dies put the bulb into the soil
i'm wondering if planting mint as a deterrent could be helpful for next year -- i know rats hate it, mice may be similar. absolutely beautiful colour.
Yeah, people have recommend that under my previous post - so we definitely gonna try that. Although, I have read comments under someone's post about rabbits and somebody said that mint is very invasive. So I guess, we'll have to do some more research on that.
It is very true mint is invasive--we've struggled for years to keep it under control.
it can be invasive, you're right. that's something i worry about in my garden as i live somewhere with a huge weed/feral plant problem, but i didn't think about it when i suggested it. i grow spearmint -- when it doesn't get a lot of water and isn't pruned it does die off and seems to contain itself to about a 1 metre area. however i do live in quite arid conditions. otherwise putting it in pots and monitoring it closely could be an idea. :)
Hyacinths are lovely ☺️ Too bad with the mice :/ we also have a mouse problem in our kitchen garden, and the cats just aren't helping... So, next step is traps with seeds. I don't know what else to do.