Confession

– Posted in: Miscellaneous
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Not only have I not been posting to my blog, I haven’t been reading yours. Or yours. Or even yours. According to my Bloglines account, there are over 300 garden blog entries that I haven’t looked at–and I reset it to “Mark All Read” at the beginning of June!

Believe me, I’m not happy about this state of affairs. I hate not knowing what’s going on with everyone. (Some people call this being nosy.) I just don’ t have time to garden and blog about it, and read about what all the other gardeners are blogging about. Is anyone else struggling with this?

About the Author

Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

Now, the digging and dividing of perennials, the general autumn cleanup and the planting of spring bulbs are all an act of faith. One carries on before the altar of delayed gratification, until the ground freezes and you can’t do any more other than refill the bird feeder and gaze through the window, waiting for the snow. . . . Meanwhile, it helps to think of yourself as a pear tree or a tulip. You will blossom spectacularly in the spring, but only after the required period of chilling.

~Adrian Higgins in The Washington Post, November 6, 2013

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jeanette June 29, 2006, 9:26 pm

I laughed out loud and share in your frustration. But consider yourself lucky: I have not yet figured out how to get notification of new blog listings; I have to hunt them up manually! I don’t have time to garden, blog about gardening, and find new blog entries to read!

firefly June 14, 2006, 1:30 pm

Argh. I just did “emergency laundry” after two weeks of setting up some raised beds and planting seedlings that were really unhappy about still being in seed flats, so I’m not even thinking about reading blogs.

Here in Maine we’ve had 17 inches of rain since May 1, so I’m scrambling to get everything in the ground before the season is over …

bill June 13, 2006, 7:32 am

I don’t keep up with Bloglines either. I have chosen a technique whereby I wait until a blog accumulates four or five entries before reading them. Unless of course it is someone like you who hasn’t posted in a long time. That draws me immediately.

Chan S. June 13, 2006, 6:45 am

Ah! the torment of having a full belly at the banquet … but maybe this means that we’re getting better at keeping our priorities straight — living life and gardening first, living in the blogworld second.

Oldroses June 13, 2006, 5:54 am

I just finished up my posts for May. I’ve started a post for June 1st. I have to work faster, I’m falling farther and farther behind.

Genie June 12, 2006, 9:31 pm

Kathy,

I had to chuckle when I saw your entry. I just cleared out about 45 Garden Voices posts that I had marked to “Save” in Bloglines because it had become clear to me that if I hadn’t yet read a post from late May, it probably wasn’t going to happen.

There’s so much great stuff out there to read…but sometimes it’s better to just let it go, and know that there’ll be more great stuff to read, often within minutes!

Genie
The Inadvertent Gardener