Property News · August 21, 2016

Gardens: summer holiday fun


There’s more to gardening than endless dreary ‘jobs for the week’Garden media can be a curious thing. We writers tend to have a fixation with forever doling out “jobs for the week”, as if gardening were not really about the joy of creating living artworks or engaging intimately with the natural world, but a never-ending list of outdoor housekeeping chores. Would food writers give you a list of “must dos” each week? “Defrost the freezer”, “Go grocery shopping”, “Reorganise the spice rack”?No, the joy of food is not just the process itself, but largely the end result. The enjoyment of the flavour, the social gathering, the sharing of your table. To me, never more so than at this beautiful time of year in the middle of the summer holidays, the most crucial thing to do in the garden is to make sure you enjoy it to its very fullest. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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