Re: Is gardening too complicated?

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Ryan,

Unless you want to be moving things around (shrubs for example) always to
get the right plant in the right place, it helps to plan a garden from the
start, have a simple design using color combinations and then dig the hole.
It is as complicated as you make it, yes, yet success is achieved when the
garden is something you can enjoy looking at rather than saying "that
doesn't look right" and doing it over. That's when people call me for
professional advice, after the THIRD D.I.Y. try and it still isn't pleasing.
Then I take a look and give them the plan and the reasons it didn't work in
the first place.

BTW, I've done all of those things you mentioned, double digging, etc. just
to install my first 6x10 veggie garden a long, long time ago! 

Gloria Day

Pretty Dirty Ladies Inc.

Garden Design & Maintenance

Office: (877) 944-2211 

Cell: (610) 909-3845 

Email: gloria@prettydirtyladies.com

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[g*@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ryan McGrath
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:10 PM
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [GWL] Is gardening too complicated?

Tim Wood recently posted this on the Plant Hunter blog...

"The big problem, in my opinion, is that there are way too many expert

horticulturists out there telling you how complicated it is to garden. They

would have you believe you need to match your flower colors using a color

wheel. They say you have to sequence the bloom time of your flowers and to

use grey as a foil between red and orange. They'll tell you to double dig

your flower beds, do a soil test and to adjust your pH. (I've never done any

of these things). And of course they'll tell you to "buy my book" to know

how to garden.

This is all phooey.

You do not need the help of garden experts to garden. You just have to dig a

hole and put a plant in it and water it a bit. Get over the idea that every

plant you plant has to live 100 years. Plants are living by definition so of

course they die. Just plant it - and don't take it so personally if it dies.

I've got a master degree in horticulture and I've killed hundreds of plants.

I'm ok with that. That's how you learn!"

(See more here:

http://plant-quest.blogspot.com/2010/03/felder-rushing-simple-dirt-gardener.

html) 

Thoughts on these ideas? 

At your service, 

Ryan McGrath

Marketing & PR Specialist

Spring Meadow Nursery, Inc. 

12601 120th Ave, Grand Haven, MI 49417

616.223.3368

www.springmeadownursery.com 

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