Day 65 of the 100 day project
Can you believe it? Day 65 and still going! The last three days have meant quite a bit of garden time, much of it with Ian working as well. It has been practical, functional gardening: clearing a raised bed, planting out beans and courgettes as well as planting out the cosmos seedlings and doing yet more of the endless weeding. I am not a vegetable gardener. I like eating it but I don't like growing it. It is labour intensive and doesn't have any of the imagination and satisfaction I get from mixing plants together and trying to create something which moves me, and ideally other people too. I can sort of see that there can be a romance in vegetable gardening. I love a good allotment and I do very much like the sense of eating something where I know exactly where and how it was grown. But a few years ago we agreed that Ian would do veg and I would do flowers and that has suited me fine. But Ian has been very busy over the last few w...