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Am finding gardening really hard.

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Paranoidandroidmarvin · 17/06/2022 20:13

I am just a beginner. Moved into my new house last October and this was the first time I didn’t have an established garden. Mostly I have just moved in, weeded and not really done much else.

But this garden was just grass a shed and a small patio. And I hated it. So I decided to jump in with both feet. Spent hours and hours reading and watching you tubes etc.

So spring came and I started to create a garden. Even grew lots of it myself from scratch. loved that part so much getting up and seeing how much things had grown etc.

but I am now in this battle to keep it all alive. I have lost so many plants to black aphids, no matter what trick I used or what bottle I sprayed.
My rose is being eaten alive by aphids and caterpillars. I have mould growing on one of my pots. I have sweet peas leaves going yellow either due to over watering or under watering I have no figured out what.

does this get easier? And more enjoyable? I sound really pathetic I’m sorry. I just feel out of my depth and I’m just trying to keep them all alive and seem to be failing no matter what I do. Am I just not born to garden!!!!

OP posts:
DRS1970 · 23/12/2023 11:04

Don't be so hard on yourself, be kind to yourself. You sound like you have achieved lots of good outcomes, so that is good right? Even the most experienced gardeners have lost plants due to succumbing to disease or pests, or specimens that just won't seem to thrive. Just mark your failures up as experience, take note of things that worked or didn't, and move on.

MereDintofPandiculation · 24/12/2023 11:51

Zombie thread! OP hasn’t posted here for 18months

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