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MiHale

(10,834 posts)
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 09:17 AM Jul 2024

Garden therapy yesterday...

Mary, my hearts’ desire, decided to extend her bulb garden. Her ‘background’ Irises are spreading greatly and the companion Hostas needed to be better showcased.
Anyway….

The grass needed to be yanked out of its its at least 30 year old home. We needed to save as much soil as we could, so I took the ‘sod’ pieces down to the Entropy Pile laid them on the compost sieve laid over the wheelbarrow and started beating them with the edge of a garden hand shovel to loosen the dirt.

Beat the babies down to their bare roots getting all that soil free.

Sometime in the second hour of that job it became less about getting the dirt out. I took out so many little frustrations beating the crap outta those sod pieces.
It felt great although my arthritic hands are a little sore today.

I would post the comments I had in my head as I freed the soil…but I’ll keep politics out.

Have a wonder day in nature!

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Garden therapy yesterday... (Original Post) MiHale Jul 2024 OP
What a beautiful sanity break! cilla4progress Jul 2024 #1
I make a cream from Comfrey and Meadowsweet... MiHale Jul 2024 #2
Fascinating! cilla4progress Jul 2024 #4
I grow them in my medicinal garden... MiHale Jul 2024 #5
This is wonderful. cilla4progress Jul 2024 #6
How are the insects in your area, MiHale? True Dough Jul 2024 #3

MiHale

(10,834 posts)
2. I make a cream from Comfrey and Meadowsweet...
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 09:28 AM
Jul 2024

blended in coconut oil. Both are quite good at relieving pain. On blood thinners gotta watch what i ingest.

MiHale

(10,834 posts)
5. I grow them in my medicinal garden...
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 10:45 AM
Jul 2024

The Meadowsweet is wild sourced but I tend it. The Comfrey came from donated roots from my sister.
We also use the comfrey for fertilizer in the veggie garden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphytum

The N.P.K. values are amazing.

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