Saturday, January 07, 2006
Winter Thought Gardens
As the new year begins, the Totem Town Community Garden remains covered with a thick layer of coarse, granular snow. No matter. With seed catalogues beginning to arrive, gardeners everywhere are already daydreaming, planning, and seeding gardens in their imaginations.
Winter thought, or imagination, gardens are wonderful admixtures. They graft together the experience of past successes and failures, the promise of newly discovered seeds and techniques, the reminisces of warm, growing weather, refreshing rains, and no weeding.
Later this year, imagination gardens will give way to physical work. We'll prepare the soil, pinch seed, and plant, tend, and water the soil. Green will sprout tentatively from the small hard nuggets. Then comes the attention of a summer's gardening chores.
For now though, we'll just stroll through the best gardens we have ever planted. ¶ 2:54 PM
As the new year begins, the Totem Town Community Garden remains covered with a thick layer of coarse, granular snow. No matter. With seed catalogues beginning to arrive, gardeners everywhere are already daydreaming, planning, and seeding gardens in their imaginations.
Winter thought, or imagination, gardens are wonderful admixtures. They graft together the experience of past successes and failures, the promise of newly discovered seeds and techniques, the reminisces of warm, growing weather, refreshing rains, and no weeding.
Later this year, imagination gardens will give way to physical work. We'll prepare the soil, pinch seed, and plant, tend, and water the soil. Green will sprout tentatively from the small hard nuggets. Then comes the attention of a summer's gardening chores.
For now though, we'll just stroll through the best gardens we have ever planted. ¶ 2:54 PM
