What I wish I had known

[Tyto Alba]

Nothing is ever perfect, get the stuff in the ground even if the beds aren't ready or the timing is slightly wrong. It all works out in the end and mistakes are rarely costly.

[Pottypotter]

and it ruins your nails even with gloves on


and the soil still gets in your nails with gloves on

[has-bean]

I am totally amazed to hear that people have had plants stolen, especially from their back gardens! Just goes to show, you get dishonest people in all walks of life. It's especially a shame since I keep reading articles about how allotments encourage a community spirit and so on.

Garden gnomes are the exception however. They are born to be stolen. Every pub should give out maps showing the loaction of all local gnomes as people leave at closing time.


A misspent youth perhaps