15-10-2023, 02:14 AM
I think the idea with the gravel/aggregate base is to provide water storage to prevent overwatering and boggy soil, bit like me burying old sponges in my pots to provide a reservoir for hot weather, but I would be tempted to combine that quality with a hydroponic set up if I couldn't sort out a watering schedule. It might be that novice gardeners are latching onto these set ups and the advice is to offset that common first timers mistake. The more I learn about hydroponics the more intrigued I become, it is such an efficient way to grow food plants. Just as well I'm too old to get involved in that adventure!
As for the refugees, it might be a cultural thing. In some communities the men are spoilt silly by our standards, by their womenfolk, fed, watered, and housekept from birth as prized family livestock - she says rather rudely - being raised that way leaves them incompetent by our standards. It must be culture shock to arrive here and be expected to know how to run a home that isn't managed by women.
We have a lady here who has always had servants in her home country, her daughters emigrated here and when Mum was widowed they brought her over under family reunification arrangements. Only none of them actually want her in their homes so they arranged her social housing application accordingly. She has home help to clean, but that is task limited, so she does things like toss rubbish over the fence, or steals space in her neighbours recycling bins with inappropriate discards, and lies through her teeth when challenged.
And then there are other residents with mental health issues, or the completely anti social ones - or the very few like me'n him with gardening obsessions, lol - people are very weird creatures. Up close they get even stranger, just as well we have doors we can close to keep our own quirks safely tucked up inside!
As for the refugees, it might be a cultural thing. In some communities the men are spoilt silly by our standards, by their womenfolk, fed, watered, and housekept from birth as prized family livestock - she says rather rudely - being raised that way leaves them incompetent by our standards. It must be culture shock to arrive here and be expected to know how to run a home that isn't managed by women.
We have a lady here who has always had servants in her home country, her daughters emigrated here and when Mum was widowed they brought her over under family reunification arrangements. Only none of them actually want her in their homes so they arranged her social housing application accordingly. She has home help to clean, but that is task limited, so she does things like toss rubbish over the fence, or steals space in her neighbours recycling bins with inappropriate discards, and lies through her teeth when challenged.
And then there are other residents with mental health issues, or the completely anti social ones - or the very few like me'n him with gardening obsessions, lol - people are very weird creatures. Up close they get even stranger, just as well we have doors we can close to keep our own quirks safely tucked up inside!