What’s the equivalent of a couch potato for a gardener?? Whatever it is, I’ve been one this year. I usually come to a screeching halt in mid or late July, and then resume my chores in mid-September when it’s cooler, but this year I have relied on others to do what little gardening got done.
I’d be the first to recognize that I have other responsibilities, but I’m not even dead-heading along the sidewalk. I was looking out the kitchen window at my herb garden, ruing that it’s so overgrown. I think I may start putting it to bed a bit early this year. It would be lovely to spend an hour in the gardens each day. I can time it so that the care giver is with Mother, and then just go and cut back a little bit of the garden at a time.
Earlier this year I was working on the oregano, which wants to take over the entire garden. I shear it back to very low mounds as it begins to grow in the spring, and trim it back at least once, if not twice more during the summer. I was trying to figure out why one bunch of oregano was sitting so much higher than the others, when I realized that the bunnies had burrowed in under it and made themselves at home. Drat! That explains why the bunnies are so quick to chew every little start that comes up. They’re sitting right there waiting for it to grow up through the dirt!
At any rate, I miss the gardens. I think I’ll have to work them back into my schedule