True confession time. I just got my new Burpee catalogue. I love the Burpee Catalogue. Maybe it is the Iowa farmgirl in my genes, but when the new catalogue comes, I eye it for months. I marvel over the flowers, and imagine my backyard as an English garden full of cascades of color and contrast. I picture my tiny vegetable plot as a fruitful field with bush beans and towering tomatoes and sunflowers reaching heavenward. Even a girl in the high plains desert who is too lazy to actually accomplish such feats should be able to dream, right? In the end, I suspect I will order a couple of the seed packets that are on closeout, and then buy the cut-price tomato plants at Home Depot again. I will work hard getting things in, then poop out until harvest or the weeds or the drought get things, whichever happens first. But a girl can dream...
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello...
7 years ago
2 comments:
I garden the same way... Lots of dreams little follow through. I love the idea of a garden but don't do the heat too well and I'm rather lazy about working.
My Dutch grandfather would be so disappointed.
One of my favorite books is "The Secret Garden"... I know there is magic in the earth. Just wish i had the energy to better tap it! ;-)
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