Property News · August 20, 2016

Late sowing for wonderful winter salads


August and early September are the last window for the vegetable garden growing season‘I will not compare my garden with others on Instagram.” I set myself lines and write them out on the blackboard in my study. I have fallen into that terrible trap of freaking out at other people’s gorgeous images of perfect fruit, veg and flowers. My garden is not full of these, ergo I am a bad gardener (albeit one drowning in raspberries).I feel as if I’m going to have a Dr Winnicott moment here in the garden. Just as this English psychoanalyst and paediatrician gave us the idea of the “good-enough” mother, it’s perfectly fine, good even, to be a “good-enough” gardener. The garden shouldn’t rule you and you shouldn’t rule the garden. But you need a few rewards; if they have been thin on the ground this summer because the slugs ate your seedlings or the heat fried them or the fox rolled on top of them or a rat ran off with them (yup, all these and more this year), you can have another go. I intend to. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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