Re: Is gardening too complicated?

**"* C* <d*@chilitech.net>**

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rose Marie McGee" <rmnicholsmcgee@comcast.net>

> It's not hard to explain there is quite a vast and satisfactory middle 
> ground between double digging and "dig a hole > and toss something into 
> it".

I am an ardent believer in double digging, triple digging, finding a new 
trade route to China. I also realize that I'm not going to convince one 
duffer in a hundred to do it. So the tack I take is to let them convince 
themselves. If they're going to put in a patch of ... oh, say, petunias, I 
tell them to double dig maybe half of the area, a couple of square feet. Or 
it they're dividing a perennial and expanding the perennial planting, same 
thing, double dig just a bit of it. Then I let their plants convince them of 
the merits of double digging.

D 

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