My thoughts on how I garden

Mid summer last year, and ever since, I have not been comfortable with the fact that I make such hard work of it.   I have always enjoyed the challenge of growing veg and flowers where people tell me that it is not possible or won't work because.    This year I have changed all that, and have decided to go down the route of only growing what DOES WORK.    As a result, my garden is just happy doing its own thing.  Pests and weeds still are not allowed, but so what if the tomatoes are just easy ones, and the runners are just enough for me, and the Love in a Mist has spread a bit, it looks pretty.    I am much more at peace with it, and that is what it is supposed to be about isn't it ?    Mrs Bouquet

Sometimes over the years, I have felt as if I am wasting time, when the challenge doesn't work   !! Sometimes of course the results have been stunning.     I suppose when I think about it, I have always been defiant  -  Somebody says, you can't,  I say,  I can, watch me.    Tallest tree to climb, best Essay,  Fastest race,
and difficult plants -   yes that was me.  But not so with the garden now.     It has taken me nearly 40 years to grasp that many things don't like growing on chalk.       .      Mrs B