One of Australia's most well-known gardening personalities is encouraging people to start planting seedlings during the pandemic. Costa Georgiadis, known to many as Costa the Garden Gnome, said during a time where things can appear so negative, planting seeds and watching them grow can bring unrivaled joy. "I recommend to people who haven't had a go at growing seedlings, give it a crack this year," he said. "You've more than likely got a bit more time at home, which means you can keep an eye on them. "When the little seedlings get their hooks into you, the joy when you see something push its head up through the soil, you can't buy that feeling. "You get this real buy in and this real vested interest and I think that's what people need at the moment, little doses of hope." He added his belief that gardening can often provide people with much-needed happiness. "There's so much hopelessness in the news or talking to people who might be down, so we need people to self administer doses of hope and happiness so they can become little vectors of that happiness," he continued. "One of the best things that gardening has done over this period is that it's given people focus on something that doesn't answer back negatively. That's not to say people don't fail in the garden... but that can provide a learning experience." Do you know of a good news story around Ballarat? Let us know below! Have you signed up to The Courier's variety of news emails? You can register below and make sure you are up to date with everything that's happening in Ballarat.
GET GREEN: Dirtgirl (Maree Lowes) and Costa the Garden Gnome (Costa Georgiadis) are encouraging people to get in the garden during the pandemic. Picture: Supplied.
One of Australia's most well-known gardening personalities is encouraging people to start planting seedlings during the pandemic.
Costa Georgiadis, known to many as Costa the Garden Gnome, said during a time where things can appear so negative, planting seeds and watching them grow can bring unrivaled joy.
"I recommend to people who haven't had a go at growing seedlings, give it a crack this year," he said.
"You've more than likely got a bit more time at home, which means you can keep an eye on them.
"When the little seedlings get their hooks into you, the joy when you see something push its head up through the soil, you can't buy that feeling.
"You get this real buy in and this real vested interest and I think that's what people need at the moment, little doses of hope."
He added his belief that gardening can often provide people with much-needed happiness.
"There's so much hopelessness in the news or talking to people who might be down, so we need people to self administer doses of hope and happiness so they can become little vectors of that happiness," he continued.
"One of the best things that gardening has done over this period is that it's given people focus on something that doesn't answer back negatively. That's not to say people don't fail in the garden... but that can provide a learning experience."
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