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New Year Resolutions!

agoodrumagoodrum Posts: 39
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Hi all.  👋  Anyone thinking about what they might want to change or give up in the new year? 
From a gardening point of view I'd like to get into the habit of watering less.  I'm prone to overwatering. 💧 Also try to enjoy the planting success I have and ignore any failures. 
On a personal level I'd like to engage my brain before I speak and not use any swear words. 🤭 Bad habit, mostly at work!
Anyway, good luck with whatever you try to change. 👍


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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'm not sure that new year is the best time to make resolutions.
    Spring is a better time to turn over a new leaf.😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I must keep dead-heading; I must keep dead-heading; I must keep dead-heading 😵‍💫✂️

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • catrina.alistairrE10E4slcatrina.alistairrE10E4sl Posts: 31
    I would like to bother my orchids less, without me they grow much better, and from my excessive love and care they get sick. And it's time to stop buying new flowers, there is already nowhere to put
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Why bother with NY resolutions ?  If they were that important, you'd have sorted them out in the previous 12 months.  They rarely last anyway - by Feb you've usually come up with a good excuse not to keep to them ;)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Not much deadheading needed in Feb … but March is a different matter … all those daffodils …

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I must grow some of the small daffs next year @Dovefromabove . No daffs in flower until April here otherwise.  :)

    I'm not sure I ever make resolutions. Perhaps I should try to enjoy the planting more as @agoodrum says. I'm not very good at just 'sitting' and enjoying the view - I like a project  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I might make a resolution to make a resolution. I like a project to have on the go at all times Fairygirl. I'm like a ship without a rudder if I haven't got one. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    agoodrum said:

    From a gardening point of view I'd like to get into the habit of watering less.  I'm prone to overwatering. 💧

    I want to water more. I am a chronic under waterer. A focus will be to try and get on top of the slug situ. I'm clearing out old wood and will try out a 'clearing up' approach and see if this makes a difference. When I arrived at the house there wasn't a slug problem, but I seem to have created one.

    I also want to try and make my gardens easier. I always, always bite off way more than I can chew. My impatience and frustrations get the best of me and I make everything too complicated. I want to interfere less, prune less, let things just grow.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    How about "Every time I spam, I promise to eat a tin of Spam ". That would surely reduce the number of spam posts wouldn't it ?
  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,674
    Spam sandwiches are quite popular (but not with me). 
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