how do you pick yourself back up

[darcyvuqua]

Dont really know what to say my allotment is overgrown and pretty much nothing there to salvage my house chillies are all dead with imature fruit all covered with aphids!

I had to go away for a month come back tuesday i dont know where to start or even if i want to continue!!

How do you get back up when you feel so low??

[veggiechicken]

Missed you darcy
Remember how well you did when you first had your plot - its not going to be anywhere near as hard to clear it this time. You can do it, you know that, so don't be disheartened, these things happen. At worst, cover some areas with cardboard and concentrate on the easiest bits. We have some decent weather on the way, so get out there and tackle it before the cold weather arrives. And we expect progress reports

[Scarlet]

My plot is always overgrown come September. Start again, it's only this months weeds.
I missed you too!

[redser]

Make a start. Don't mean to be callous but its true. Dump the chillies and start clearing your plot. You'll find it easy enough as your ground will be well cultivated and will look great after you turn it over. There's always next year. Maybe sow a handful of winter salad like lambs lettuce to get growing again.
Most plots look raggy at this time of year, must get up and clear a lot of mine up

[zazen999]

All the weeds and dead stuff makes good compost.

[darcyvuqua]

I know what to do i just aint got any motivation i just really aint got a gyo mojo right now


:-(

[veggiechicken]

So where has it gone darcy? How can we help you find it again? Would the threat of a workparty do it?

[darcyvuqua]

So where has it gone darcy? How can we help you find it again? Would the threat of a workparty do it?

Mmm dunno, dunno and probably not :-(

[veggiechicken]

You need a big cwtch

[darcyvuqua]

Big more like bloody huuuuge

[veggiechicken]

This is the biggest one I can send you

[Feral007]

You sound like me and my weeds in the paddock darcy! Get totally overwhelmed when I go out there sometimes, can't even start because it's too much.

Have you lost your mojo because you can't see or feel the excitement of the harvest atm?

I'd work out what you would most like to see - cover the lot (at best, not at worst VC! Always the best way) and chuck in a few of what makes you feel great.
Honestly, there are times when I just go to the nursery and buy some seedling plants, and throw them in. I didn't raise them, but I love to see em.

And a couple of bushes of the pretty and the edible - who cares if they were raised from seed or if they were raised by experts who sold them to you? It often makes me feel good again just to see things there. I like herbs for that reason too. And my son gets a bit sick of me growing pigfaces in the garden but they look much more cheerful when everything else can't cope or is spent, than just dead bushes.

NUrse feral prescribes that sweet smell of cardboard!

[vikkib]

Really sorry to hear you're feeling down Darcy.

The mojo comes and the mojo goes and sometimes there isn't any rhyme or reason but it does sound like you've had a knock with the chillies and the plot.

Are the chilli plants definitely, completely, dead? You could try cutting them back to the main /secondary stems and dumping all the aphidy stems, leaves and fruit and see if the plants try and put on new growth. The roots might still have some life left in them.

Don't know if it will help but quite a few of my local garden centres and diy places are selling off their chilli plants dirt cheap at the moment as it's coming towards the end of the season... one place had them for 50p a pop!

Maybe you could chuck out your old one's and get a couple of cheap one's and try to overwinter them? The one's I cut back in Oct/Nov last year started sprouting new leaves in December and flowers in Jan and that cheered be up no end in the depths of winter!

I lost my gyo mojo well and truly over winter the year before last and it just took a while to come back. A bit of time, rest and trying not to feel guilty about having lost it helped no-end.

Is there anyone that could give you a hand clearing some of the weeds on the plot? I always find a friend and a flask of something hot make those jobs much more fun.

[Bigmallly]

Welcome back Darcy, I know where you are coming from as I didn't have the time or mojo to carry on so I handed my plot back. Only you will know if it is right or wrong to jack it in. Good luck with whatever you decide pal but keep in touch with the vine.

[DannyRam]

It's like eating an elephant, Darcy, - one bit at a time. Does it all have to be done today????????