The learning curve

I love gardening: you can learn new things every week. Take this for example; I cut out all the dying sweet pea plants from the bean poles last week. And without thinking just dumped them on the bark chip path in the middle of the potager.   A huge pile of drying plant and seed and naturally I have only come back to them this morning. What do I find? Seeds scattered in among the bark chips and utterly unfindable.

So it’s all a learning curve; and next year I’m going to cut out the stalks and leave them on a white sheet to dry.   But I do have hundreds and hundreds of seeds, despite my neglect, so all is not lost. I guess I’ll just have whacky seedlings in the middle of the path.

I mowed for the first time in about a month this morning too. That was fun now that I have proper ear protectors. And nothing beats listening to Gardener’s Question Time on the mp3 as you roar up the track cutting back on the knee high weeds.