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    Gardening: Training for How to Live.

    Work involves planning, scheduling, and performing tasks. Gardening involves those too but contingency planning becomes more important.

    I've been working since Friday evening to get the area for potatoes dug over and planted because of rain expected on Wednesday, busy on Mother's Day, and I'm already very late planting potatoes due to "life". Then rain was forecast for Monday evening up north of us but too close for comfort. Didn't rain here but now they're saying rain today (Tuesday).

    After work last night I went out to the garden and worked until dark. Got it done!

    This stuff is good training for life in general. Got to have a contingency plan and things to do when you can't work your plan.

    I'm just rambling and restating the obvious. Wish I had been able to get serious about gardening earlier in life. Good lessons to learn.

    I'll shut up now.
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    I really wish I'd been interested in gardening earlier too. I was a real late comer to it and even moving into our current house with a garden nearly 20 years back did not inspire me to start. I wanted to live in a riverside flat - thank goodness that never happened!

    I guess all those early years spent down the allotment with my Dad might be paying off as I had some idea of what I was doing

    Ive learned a lot about patience with gardening and trying again when things fail.
    LOVE growing food to eat in my little town back garden. Winter update: currently growing overwintering onions, carrots, lettuce, chard, salad leaves, kale, cabbage, radish, beetroot, garlic, broccoli raab, some herbs.

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    • #3
      If all else fails..............have a nap....

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      • #4
        I gardened as a youngster with my dad, and when I first got married I bought a small greenhouse for my first garden.

        2 children and divorce meant that for a few years life got in the way, but I came back to gardening as soon as things became less demanding of my time. Now retired I have a garden and an allotment, so can garden all day if I want, and the weather allows.

        It's a joy which I will continue to enjoy for as long as health allows! I don't like to think of life without gardening tbh *sad face*

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        • #5
          A couple of you mentioned your dads and gardening. My dad raised vegetables in a garden behind the house when I was a kid. I didn't really help him much but I used to watch him and ask a few questions.

          Good food and good memories.
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          • #6
            When I was younger my dad had a big garden but sadly he died young, which left my brother and I to cut the grass, no electric mower in those days, weed a massive perennial boarder and dig a large veg patch, in those days council gardens had to be kept tidy or you could be evicted, then my mother moved to a smaller house and smaller garden, and with work and life and family no time to garden, now no energy, but will need to try this "planning" that DW is on about
            it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.

            Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbers

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            • #7
              My parents bought a house with a huge (3 1/2 acre) garden and couldn't find a gardener. Me and my sister were dragged in. My brother escaped most of it as he was sent away to school and when he was home he got to sit on the lawnmower. I learnt about herbaceous borders, pigs, ducks, that labradors like raspberries, orchards and how to keep the fruit. I bl00dy hated it at the time. But I did learn the bits I like and I liked the fruit and vegetable part and pruning roses and seeing the results. I still hate podding broad beans and a lot of that is because I really, really don't like them. My friend calls them "boiled horribles" and I agree.
              "I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)
              "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live" (also Alexandre Dumas)
              Oxfordshire

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              • #8
                When I was younger, my aunt and uncle had a big veg patch in their garden. I used to love going round and 'helping'.
                When we first had this house I think we had a little dabble with gardening, but with kids and work that didn't get far. Although, we have always had the runner bean frame. We're on Mark 3 now I think.
                Now we are retired, it's lovely and something we can do together or separately
                Nannys make memories

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Bigmallly View Post
                  If all else fails..............have a nap....
                  Enough rain last night to muddy the garden and my muscles aches are telling me I'm still alive. More rain expected this afternoon. I'll relax this evening. A nap is an excellent suggestion. Thanks!
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                  • #10
                    Gardening can teach you a lot about life skills such as getting the foundations right, learning not to run before you can walk, reaping the benefits by working hard, tolerance when things go wrong, giving yourself a pat on the back when you've done well, and taking a rest to renew your spirit.
                    I work very hard so please don't expect me to think as well!

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                    • #11
                      I got quite a bit of satisfaction hand digging the area for the potatoes and getting them planted before the rains began. After some rest I'm ready to get back at it but it's been rain, rain, and more rain. Patience is another thing gardening teaches, like it or not.
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