Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi I'm new to the community though I've been diagnosed with autism since I was about 13. I struggle with my mental health though I'm hoping things are improving slowly but surely in that department... So I've been out in my garden trying to make it look nice and tidy, not many 16s who do that... I'm really boring lol... But I'm finding it frustrating because a lot of its not proper grass it's more like the ground you get in a forest - I live on old farming land so it's pretty crazy to keep it all under control.
I want to get it looking nice though but I don't really get how to. I'm pretty stupid when it comes to stuff.
But I've got so many plans with this garden and one day I'm hoping I can buy the house for me and my parents... I do a lot of charity work and fundraising. Helps keep me busy.
I want to grow flowers and some nice things to eat like strawberries. Not sure how to do any of it though!
It's something I'm passionate about though. I really want it to work out but half the time the girls are like your never going to be successful with this.
But I'm trying.
I find that mowing an area remorselessly for a couple of years means that only grass tends to survive & thrive.
In our garden when it's getting a bit threadbare looking, I let an area that has the best grass grow to seed, then I collect a bag of seed and sprinkle it where it's most needed. I tend to start my mowing late so that the bluebells and other spring flowers have a bit of a chance to do their thing, so my first mow is LONG grass and therefore I also needed a strimmer both to do the edges and also to hack down the long stuff, before first mow.
Strimmers and mowers do require a fair bit of faffing about with TBF, and it really does NOT HURT to learn a bit about the infernal combustion engine, if you want to run them cheaply and reliably.
Today I learned (from you tube) why my strimmer line keeps breaking ridiculously easily and that strimmer line can dry out and become brittle in storage (who knew that? It's plastic!) and that soaking it for a period (Unspecified in the video but one commeneter said he did four days.) I have such a box of line (in a remote location) and will be testing that out later next week when I get it back here. I also learned the correct way to tilt a rotary mower for cleaning the bottom so as the fuel and oil don't run out.
I wil confess I have very little clue, and even may be misadvising you in my ignorance, but what I do does seem to work well, for making an area of nice lively grass.
Next up, I will be attempting to grow some food...