Yard Thread

I'm learning how to grow plants

maybe eventually including plants that New Zealand native bugs and birds and lizards and such might munch on.

I've got a whole garden to screw around in courtesy of The Folks, who currently aren't asking much of me other than to work through my depression, get some gentle exercise on the semi-reg, and maybe cultivate them up some free produce down the track.

I'd like to get good at propagating plants because turning a $3 pack of herb seeds into thirty-odd gifts for all and sundry is Pretty Cool Beans. Also if you leave many plants for long enough you can just split 'em in two and end up with two plants. Maybe more!

Plants are great.

The garden currently contains:

Driveway area
-Assortment of native trees
-A blackcurrant bush
-A redcurrant bush
-A small lavender plant I transplanted last week
-An aesthetically pleasing strip of succulents

Chicken-proofed front yard
-Three vegetable beds (oca+courgette, potatoes, various herbs + some crinkly -lettuces)
-An out-of-control rosemary bush
-Quarantined mint
-An espaliered apple tree
-Compost heap
-Worm bin

This Vege Zone is also my half-assed potting area, containing:
-Several plants beg+borrowed+stolen from friendquaintances
-some cacti that might be dead, we'll see
-a tray full of coriander seeds in potting mix

Rest of the front yard
-A small, yet productive lemon tree
-the "cheesecake"/rockery
-lawn
-The Rock-Lined Drygrass Zone (feat. wisteria)
-A couple of big ol' camellias

Back yard
-More lawn
-Unused shady strip by boundary fence
-Lemon balm-infested corner (popular chicken dustbath spot)
-Two thriving hebes
-The neighbors' tree of indeterminate type that drops a lot of leaves and has a resident fantail
-Chicken Coop (with grapevine and mostly-forgotten-about feijoa tree)