Post by Moonlight on Jan 1, 2014 14:07:56 GMT
I started my Diary of a bizarre erratic gardener on January 2nd 2013 and as it has gone on a bit (102 pages
) and after a lot of mullings, I think it is a good idea to start a fresh thread. I don’t want the old one closed, I just find it a bit of a faff trawling through the pages, looking for something specific that I mentioned a couple of months ago. (Might add a post with key events and which page to read them, another day.)
Last year:
Diary of a bizarre erratic gardener.
...My dream this year is to go for the Novice Cup at my local 3 shows (please don't ask where.)
What I don't want to do is to mean well. Lots of ideas and good intentions and nothing planted. I want to achieve, have some sort of personal pride in my garden and no longer be embarrassed. Anything that I plant and it grows will be something of pride and to me, will be a success (even if it was one thing)
PS You can roll your eyes a bit when I do something daft but not when I'm looking.
I am proud to say that I managed to enter a few Novice classes and even won some 
but I didn’t know enough about gardening or grow enough to ever be a realistic competitor for the cup.
I might have had a possibility of a chance in the future shows had I not been tempted by the 'darkside'
and entered non-novice
dahlia classes and won!
So I am not complaining! Far from it.
Last year I said and it still holds true (even though I wasn’t very good at it):
and I think that I should stick with that, maybe I will be better at it because I won’t be stretching myself so thin*(if only that were true*) (by trying to rise to the challenge of the Novice Cup)
Who knows live and learn, tiny steps, lots of mud and if it is anything like last year, gardening in the middle of the night.
Maybe this year, I won't be flailing around (quite so much) in the pitch darkness because now I've got my gardening (wear on your) head light.
So there you go, intro over my
Diary of a bizarre erratic gardener continues – 2014
You have been warned…. mwahahahaha (Count Duckula 'sinister' laughter, that isn't)
PS You can still roll your eyes
a bit when I do something daft but not when I'm looking.
) and after a lot of mullings, I think it is a good idea to start a fresh thread. I don’t want the old one closed, I just find it a bit of a faff trawling through the pages, looking for something specific that I mentioned a couple of months ago. (Might add a post with key events and which page to read them, another day.)Last year:
...My dream this year is to go for the Novice Cup at my local 3 shows (please don't ask where.)
What I don't want to do is to mean well. Lots of ideas and good intentions and nothing planted. I want to achieve, have some sort of personal pride in my garden and no longer be embarrassed. Anything that I plant and it grows will be something of pride and to me, will be a success (even if it was one thing)
PS You can roll your eyes a bit when I do something daft but not when I'm looking.
but I didn’t know enough about gardening or grow enough to ever be a realistic competitor for the cup.I might have had a possibility of a chance in the future shows had I not been tempted by the 'darkside'
and entered non-novice dahlia classes and won! So I am not complaining! Far from it.Last year I said and it still holds true (even though I wasn’t very good at it):
What I don't want to do is to mean well. Lots of ideas and good intentions and nothing planted. I want to achieve, have some sort of personal pride in my garden and no longer be embarrassed. Anything that I plant and it grows will be something of pride and to me, will be a success (even if it was one thing)
and I think that I should stick with that, maybe I will be better at it because I won’t be stretching myself so thin*(if only that were true*) (by trying to rise to the challenge of the Novice Cup)
Who knows live and learn, tiny steps, lots of mud and if it is anything like last year, gardening in the middle of the night.
Maybe this year, I won't be flailing around (quite so much) in the pitch darkness because now I've got my gardening (wear on your) head light.
So there you go, intro over my
Diary of a bizarre erratic gardener continues – 2014
You have been warned…. mwahahahaha (Count Duckula 'sinister' laughter, that isn't)
PS You can still roll your eyes
a bit when I do something daft but not when I'm looking. 
) whenever I need a bit of help from the experts and I already know that I get a lot of moral support here. 
