{"id":138866,"date":"2023-08-20T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardening-is-supposed-to-be-good-for-you-so-why-do-i-feel-such-self-loathing-emma-beddington\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T20:18:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T13:18:43","slug":"gardening-is-supposed-to-be-good-for-you-so-why-do-i-feel-such-self-loathing-emma-beddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardening-is-supposed-to-be-good-for-you-so-why-do-i-feel-such-self-loathing-emma-beddington\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening is supposed to be good for you \u2013 so why do I feel such self-loathing? | Emma Beddington"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDeath stalks my garden, while everyone on social media shows off their perfect tomatoes and dazzling bloomsEverything in the garden is not rosy. It\u2019s not even green; it\u2019s yellow or brown, or yellow with brown spots. It\u2019s my third summer and it has all gone wrong. The various pollinator-friendly flower seeds I carefully planted and tended managed to produce the grand total of: one self-seeded weed. Any flowers that predated \u2013 and survived \u2013 my arrival have fallen over and are lolling on the ground. The apples all fell off the tree and are rotting in a wasp-infested heap that smells like a cider festival toilet. My sole success, a Central American vine, succumbed to some novel plague this week.Worst of all were the tomatoes: one day fine (to my ignorant eye), the next, catastrophic blight. \u201cAll my precious ones,\u201d I whispered, like a character from a Jacobean tragedy whose children have been murdered, clutching putrid brown bunches to my chest. That\u2019s it for me and tomatoes: I can\u2019t go through that again. Every time I go outside, something else has died. I don\u2019t want to be overly dramatic, but my happy place now feels like a plague house (OK, fine, I do want to be overly dramatic). Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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