The Weekend Gardener
– The Busy Person’s Guide To A Beautiful Backyard Garden
The Weekend Gardener – Too many demands, too little time for the joy of gardening? One of the hard facts of modern life is that crammed schedules and crushing workloads seem to conspire to make gardening a threatened pastime.
But everyone wants a lovely garden, a place where the landscape sparkles with refreshment and the beauty of nature. A place where the dirt gets under your fingers, the earth a partner and friend. A setting where you can spend a few restful hours soaking up its beauty and letting it lift your spirit.
Planting your own flowers, developing your own lawn, designing your own garden; these are the joys of gardening that can still be made available today. When you get to pick your own fresh fruits and vegetables you experience why gardening is irresistible to so many lovers of life.
Yet, the long commute to and from work, the few hours we are allotted in our drive to lead successful lives, both financially and socially, seem to lead to the remarkable conclusion, “A garden? No chance!”
Most people content themselves with hiring out a landscaping firm to develop and shape a desirable lawn, and perhaps, a trip to the local ‘farmers’ market’, once or twice a season, for fresh vegetables.
But even these compromises are alternatives that turn out to be prohibitive. Landscaping firms can charge thousands of dollars to re-carpet a lawn, hundreds just to maintain it.
Prices at the farmers’ market, though usually less than found in your grocery store, are still relatively high and require ‘special trips’ which eat further into your valuable time.
Beyond this, as a weekend gardener you must have a garden plan that won’t nag at you like a child in distress. The last thing you need, once you’ve decided to join the ranks of the great gardening class, is to have your precious time further eroded by time consuming garden activities and new projects…
