To Do

NZ gardener and author Sarah O’Neill has the best and simplest idea for her garden shed, a blackboard ‘To Do’ list. I’m definitely going to adopt that idea in my own workshop one day soon, until then I have a list going on my phone. At the moment it says: • More spud towers • Straw & soil for spuds • 2 more roses for block garden • Rosemary for hedging. • Fertilise passionfruit • Mushroom kits • 4 grapes for dog fence • Strawberries & spring onions for wheelbarrow • Divide variegated lemon thyme Now it’s the last one that’s worrying me. This was the plan right? Get herbs and veg started in pots or window boxes and divvy them or tease them out for the garden. But I didn’t really expect things to survive, but it’s thriving. And I love my lemon thyme. More than any other plant (athough the passionfruit and sage come a nostalgic second and third) lemon thyme makes me happy and it seems to thrive despite my neglect. So I don’t want to actively kill it by tearing it in half and re-planting it. But grown-up gardeners have to do this *sigh* and one day, that’s what I want to be, a grown-up gardener who propagates and grafts and collects seed and cross-pollinates…when I find out what all those things are, and why we have to do them.