Spring and the garden calls
Some of you may also be experiencing the urge to be outside, to have your hands in the soil. Gardening is one of those things that let me multitask inadvertently. I get to be outside, my favourite place to be; I’m working on achieving a vision – my haphazard plan of a garden; and my mind can wander. Some of my best ideas are born when I’m working in the garden. Possibly some of my worst as well, but that’s another story.
I love herbs. Thyme planted between paving stones or in the lawn so the scent is released when you walk. Lavender planted next to a path, waiting to be brushed against. Catnip for my cats. Marjoram because I love the smell.
This spring three things have come together serendipitously. I have almost an acre of garden in the making. It’ll take years. I have a new client – Two Herbal Mamas – and have been working on a blog – MamaBlog - for them. It’s a blog about herbs to go with their website. They sell all natural herbal body and skin care. (Yes, this is a shameless plug but they make the best lip salve ever.) As I worked digging beds and thinning very old peonies I thought about herbs and what I would plant and thought about the blog and website that I was working on. It was a perfect a perfect alignment.
Happy Spring! I’m off to the garden.
it’s interesting that you mention “hands in the soil”. My grandfather used to say that he believed if you got your hands dirty in the garden dirt, then beneficial nutrients and etc would penetrate to the bloodstream and you would live longer. He died at 93.
My grandmother used to garden without gloves and then moan her hands because she could never get all the dirt off. In the 50s when women wore gloves whenever they went out she was fine but as the glove fashion passed she’d always say “Now I’ve got to remember to put on gloves when I’m working in the garden”. It never really worked out that way because she’d be outside and see ‘one little thing’ that she wanted to do and would dive in hands first.
I have to admit that I wear gloves.