Day 98 Garden Downsize

I live in a townhouse so I don’t have much to care for in the way of garden or lawn but for what I do have I am endevouring to minimalise the amout of equipment and time required to maintain it.

I only purchase/aquire plants that can survive my neglect, requiring little watering or pampering in any way and hardy enough to cope with the varying climate we can get here at times.

When we first moved into the property we owned a lawn mower and an edge trimmer which seemed a little overkill for a lawn 5m long by 1.5m wide so my husband bought a rotory hand mower and gave the other items to charity.

After using the hand mower a couple of times I decided that was hard work so the next time the gardener that maintains the common areas of the property came to do his work I asked him what he would charge me to trim the edges and cut the lawn in the back of my home. He said he would do it for a carton/slab of beer at Christmas each year. “BARGAIN” deal done.

As a result of exploring options and choosing wisely when adding plants I now have a garden that requires little maintenance or equipment. Today I will send the last of the redundant gardening equipment that has been lurking in the garage to the give-away pile.

I might add we have no intention of ever again living in a propery that has big lawns and gardens so I don’t expect ever to have to replace the gardening equipment that we have purged over that last couple of years

Garden ItemsColleen’s Helpful Hint of the Day

If you should accidently write on a whiteboard with perminent marker just scribble over it with the whiteboard marker and it should rub right off.

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Colleen is the founder of 365 Less Things and lives in Newcastle, Australia.

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  1. :: If you should accidently write on a whiteboard with perminent marker just scribble over it with the whiteboard marker and it should rub right off. ::

    And if you can be a forgetful person and you leave it there… Rubbing alcohol works wonders. After it dries, go over it with water of window spray and voila…

    • Thanks for the tip Carrie B. I always check out peoples blogs before I write my replies and I did the same with you. Random acts for kindness are a wonderful thing and are as rewarding to the person performing them as they are to the receiver. I’ll be going back to read more.