Posted by spring_rain on January 05, 2014 at 12:03
PermalinkI have a problem. I technically like gardening. I really like the idea of gardening. What I like above all is buying interesting seeds and letting them languish in a cupboard.
Where I fall down is sustaining the willpower to go out every week come wind or rain and maintain the garden. I find the work satisfying when I actually get round to it, but often put it off. Last year I also had horrible depression and didn't make it off the sofa a lot of days. I planted a bunch of things and then neglected them; it wasn't pretty.
But 2014 is another year. I have a beautiful garden (when it's been tended, anyway), and it deserves better from me. I'm not going to make grand claims that I'll be the perfect gardener this year, but with Growstuff I think I might have a chance at keeping track and thus keeping on top of things. And knowing I have somewhere to keep a proper record of my results should be a motivator. We'll see.
Happy New Year and good gardening, internets.
4 comments
Welcome aboard! Let us know if there's anything you want from the site that would help you with this :)
Thank you! This all looks incredibly helpful as it is - I love the fact you can enter dates for planting your seeds, it's going to make it so much easier for me to be organised about sowing. It's a fantastic site, I'm so glad I found it :) :)
Welcome, spring_rain! I am in a similar situation - I tend to tend the garden only when planting and harvesting, and very little in between. But when I give it regular amounts of love, the garden gives back.
I've found that even going to the garden for 5 minutes every couple of days pays off. Remove a dry leaf here, bump off a caterpillar there. Gets you your daily dose of garden-smell, and you end up doing less tiring upkeep.
Thank you for your encouraging words! I took your advice and went out today to maybe just pull off a few old twigs, and ended up pruning/tidying up three plants! :)