Lists of gardening tasks and counsels of perfection
I don’t like gardening columns that give me lists of things to do appropriate to the season. I rarely get to do them, or else they are done at the very last minute, when the efficacy is all but gone.
I don’t like the aspirational approach to gardening. Just like over-thin models, pictures of supposed perfection just make me feel inadequate. Too many gardening magazines make me begin to think of the merits of a nice concrete slab, or an apartment. In other words, they send me crazy.
But I know in the guilt-ridden part of my psyche what I should be doing this week in my garden. I should have cut back the sage and the lavender to prevent them from going leggy.
I should have weeded and thinned out the carrots, and I should have punnets of cabbage and cauliflower seedlings ready to plant out so that the winter months will not force me to resort to the spiritual limbo of the supermarket vegetable section.
I am already living with the results of jobs not done months ago. Sprawling tomatoes, oxalis among the lettuce, strawberries feeding the birds because of the lack of bird netting. Passionfruit seedlings growing long and desperate looking in punnets because I haven’t got round to planting them out.
What else can I find to beat myself with? Should should should. And I should have spent last weekend catching up on all these jobs, instead of mooching around reading the papers. Oh dear.
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