Gardening for Her Life

The Garden as A Metaphor for Life – 10 Life Lessons from Gardening

Contents:

  • On Perfection, Shame, and Failure
  • Gardening Guru Linda Vater shares her life in the garden in her Potager Blog
  • Weeds are in the eye of the beholder
  • The Garden as A Metaphor for Life - 10 Life Lessons from Gardening - Daring to Live Fully
  • Conclusion

    • So I was kind of moping about my garden, and how it seemed to represent my life. When I created it, I had this romantic idea about growing my own food.

    I pictured myself admiring my beautiful oasis from my back porch. But instead of a beautiful oasis, what I have is an unruly bush of vegetables.

    On Perfection, Shame, and Failure

    And I started to think about how that is so apropos of my life. Per usual, I was overly ambitious and planted a ton of stuff.

    I bit off more than I could chew. And it got messy.

    Gardening Guru Linda Vater shares her life in the garden in her Potager Blog

    And I feel like my life is kind of messy. I have a new side hustle as a dog walker.

    What gardening taught me about life - tobacco brown

    And that garden seemed to be a representation of that fact. Looking at it, I felt ashamed, but also thankful that this plant beast was in the backyard and not in full view for my Martha Stewart neighbors to see.

    Weeds are in the eye of the beholder

    I even had visions of my neighbors looking at it and shunning me for being such a shitty gardener. Which is stupid because my neighbors are nice people and obviously would never do that.

    I also just gave my in-laws a bunch of freshly picked loot. After I thought about it this way, I stopped beating myself up over it. Most first attempts at anything are pretty bad anyway. And failure is necessary if you want to do anything worthwhile.

    The Garden as A Metaphor for Life - 10 Life Lessons from Gardening - Daring to Live Fully

    As JK Rowling has said:. So, I decided to let all my insecurities about my garden go.

    Conclusion

    Novelist Julie Myerson explains, below, the intense joy that gardening has brought her, while other keen amateurs share their passion. I am getting to that age now where my mates – the same ones who have made fun of me since high school for being into gardening – are.

    Except, growing in pots is almost certainly the highest risk and highest-input way to garden, even if public perception is often the reverse. In the cramped confines of a pot, plant roots experience far wider fluctuations in temperature and water, and quickly run out of nutrients and root space. And, of course, you have to buy the damn pot.

    Nine times out of 10, plants grown in open ground in well-maintained soil will fair far better and need much less attention from you. So ignore the snobs. Give it a go instead of using common names, which can refer to any number of other things, and you are much more likely to get your hands on what you actually want.

    The secret is persistence

    Email James at james. So here we go: The secret is persistence The number of times that I have been told by people that they are afraid of gardening as they once killed a plant… Well, guess what? Topics Gardening advice James Wong on gardens. Order by newest oldest recommendations.

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