The way to get things done in the garden is to go out there intending to do something else. So I went out yesterday all girded up to plant the 30 odd plants that were all sitting there demanding to be planted. For some reason the other plants that had been dug up and left in the buckets suddenly seemed very interesting. They had been there for some six weeks, and as the buckets didn’t drain I had been regularly emptying them of the frequent storm water, in spite of which they had got stinky as a foul drain.
Why it suddenly seemed more fun to deal with stinky plants which needed sawing into pieces before potting up I have no idea. It did involve a trip to the garden centre for more compost, however…
Still have 30 plants already in pots impatiently waiting their turn..
The way to get nothing done is, of course, to blog about it…
August 2012
“I’ve noticed something about gardening. You set out to do one thing and pretty soon you’re doing something else, which leads to some other thing, and so on. By the end of the day, you look at the shovel stuck in the half-dug rose bed and wonder what on earth you’ve been doing.” Anne Raven, Deep in the Green (1995)
Umm..why have I never come across that ? Should I have done?
The quote? Or the experience?
The source of the quote…
Couldn’t agree more. My latest mantra is “finish this job first…”
Good luck with that!
I reckon you need a list.
“Whimpers”
I often make a list but end up doing other things!
Somehow I imagine I would do exactly the same. But would have acquired an extra chore – list making..