Brian Ford on Comments
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When we bought our house, we looked out into the massive backyard and we were amazed by the lush garden brimming with flowers and vegetables and fruit trees.
That vision sucked us into a fantasy world of possibility: “Oh, what we could do with that! Vegetables from our garden for dinner! Sipping mojitos as we blissfully pluck flowers and water our lawn!” Five years later, we’ve completely pulled out the garden (no more vegetables at all and only a few remaining flowers) whilst our trees rarely produce edible fruit. The only plant-like things that seem to thrive (whether we encourage them or not) are weeds and vines. Whenever something pleasant does bloom, our yard is overrun with rabbits and bees and wasps and squirrels. Gardening—successfully gardening, anyway—is a ridiculous amount of work.
(via Instapaper)
I’ve been really been thinking about my approaches to comments on my blogs. This is the first of a few articles that I’ve been reviewing.
Ed
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I’m playing devil’s advocate a little here but my thoughts are:
1. Become a better gardener
2. Don’t allow your garden to sprawl out so far and encroach on communal land so you have more time for your territory
3. Pay someone to do the gardening for you
4. Stop planting high maintenance plants
5. Take notice and give more credit to those plants that have thrived even when the garden has become over-run with weeds
6. Keep an eye out for the tiny seedlings that are just starting to sprout. Give them the right encouragement and they will blossom into wonderful strong plants. Stifle them and they will disappear (maybe to grow in someone else’s garden)
Lisa x
Of course, the naughty version of me wants to comment on Lady Gardens but then I would be shooting myself in the foot and giving you another reason to get rid of the “garden” altogether!