Life is a Lot Like Gardening!
We've had a period of pretty warm weather around here, coming on top of a fair amount of rain. As a result, it feels like everything is just growing out of control, and no sooner will I have finished cutting the lawn that it needs to be cut again.
As I was mowing yesterday my mind slid sideways towards thinking about just how much overall life resembles trying to keep up with a large garden.
No matter how hard you try, and how hard you work, your work is never done. You might get the lawn looking really good but then the weeds are growing all over the place. And then when you finally get the weeds pulled the hedges need trimming. In the meantime the lawn has gotten long and fuzzy again and you have to mow again.
Even when you're running at full speed it feels like you can't ever quite keep everything looking decent!
And forget about such luxuries as actually sitting still for a few days and just enjoying the fruits of your labor because while you're doing so something else will grow all over the place. Like the native blackberry vines I just noticed growing through one of our magnolia trees. That needs dealing with!
Meanwhile, unless you're entirely on top of your game all the time, and paying attention to watering the right things and adding fertilizer here and there, and some judicious pruning you end up with a garden full of stuff you don't want while the stuff you do want ends up looking sickly or even dying.
Really makes me appreciate the whole idea of xeriscaping, which is somewhat difficult to do around here because everything is so lush and green. Ironically, I have an increased appreciation of my parents' "desert landscape" in their yard when they lived in the Phoenix area where pretty much nothing wanted to grow. Except for a few cacti that could pretty much be left alone.
When I was at university, a lot of my friends didn't understand why so many people in my native Denmark live in apartments rather than in houses. Knowing what I know about the effort it takes to keep a yard going I'm not that surprised.
And it's not that people who live in apartments don't like to get their hands in the dirt, but many of them limit their gardening exposure to either having a few plants in pots on their balcony, or they rent a plot in a community garden where all they have to deal with is a 10x20 foot patch of land that they plant a few vegetables in.
Don't get me wrong, I do love having Green Space around me and I don't regret living in a house with a piece of land around it but it is sure a lot of work pretty much like life itself is!
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