Good advice
January 30th, 2005 by Kathy Purdy · 1 Comment
“Darwinian Gardening: Like everything else, gardening works best if you know yourself. If you are aware that you tend to be disorganized and inattentive, plan a garden that can accommodate this. Choose flowers that can survive a little abuse and neglect. If a flower can’t live where you planted it, it didn’t belong in your garden anyway.” This advice, while originally directed at women with ADD, is pretty darn good advice for all gardeners. Their more specific advice that follows this quote is the type of stuff I had to figure out for myself. You don’t have to be “disorganized and inattentive” to find this useful, just busy. Thanks again to Doug Welch. I’m going to subscribe to that Feedster feed just as soon as Bloglines is up and running again.
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Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. •
USDA Hardiness Zone:4 • AHS Heat Zone: 3 • Location: rural;
Southern Tier of NY • Geographic type: foothills of Appalachian
Mountains • Soil Type: acid clay • Experience level:
intermediate
• Particular interests: colchicums, narcissus, cottage gardening, NY
native plants, gardening with/for children
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bill
// Jan 30, 2005 at 3:29 pm
The specific advice would make a good primer for anyone new at gardening in my opinion.
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