Myth two - Gardening is easy – sow the
seeds in a row, watch em grow.
Nature
abhors a vacuum. Well I’ve been tempted to take mine out into the garden and
suck the weeds up. Those nice neat cultivated rows full of perfect
vegetables you see in Beatrix Potter’s
gardens are simply not achievable. Not
in my backyard. The old saying, one year’s
seeding is seven years weeding. Did anyone ever do the maths on our property? No one weeded for at least ten years, and for
each of those years it’s another seven, I’m looking at well beyond my own
lifespan to get it back into manageable proportions.
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One
of my favourite pass times while weeding is to think about which weed I hate
most, to prioritise my hit list. It’s not a pass time I ever get sick of, I’m
not sure that life is long enough to sufficiently hate yarrow.
The
thing is I’m never able to give up on my romantic ideal of this perfect garden
and for small spaces in time I even manage to achieve it, then it’s a couple of
weekends in a row doing something other than pulling weeds and it’s out of
control and the only thing left to do is slink past the conquered rows or set
fire to them.
Keeping on top of your garden is not easy.
Tomorrow - Myth three - Sustainability is easy.
