Hello summer! Balmy nights and longer days means gardens go up a gear – plants, seeds, weeds, pests, the good and bad – everything zooms along. Keep up in the easiest and most pleasurable of ways with little and often bursts of attention. Little and often makes your summer garden (and your life), better.
If you can, get out early to water + do a daily check in. These two habits are your garden allies, they keep everyone in top health and pests at bay if you sort the little bits and pieces there and then. If done daily or even every second day, it’s easy little stuff that needs sorting: little weeds, little pests, little bits of disease that can simply be removed from the plant – Huzzah! Handsome again!
This morning as I watered, I pulled a few wind-blown hollyhocks off my young mandarin, squashed aphids on roses and a few snails on the beans, pulled a few little weeds from amongst the salads, checked my carrot seed (not up yet!), pricked on sunflower seedlings so they don’t get leggy, ate a few asparagus spears, wound tomatoes and cucumbers round strings, rejoiced at the first zinnia about to open and squashed a pair of mating shield bugs on the raspberries … one family down – yuss!
And most of all soak up all the beauty. Let your cares fade away.
Yours in the Earth,
summer love, Kath
