The garden of life

My introduction post is a thought I had today whilst busy in my new garden..

I had to do a lot of digging and pulling up of next door's weeds which had crept under the fence..the soil had been covered for goodness knows how long with black tarp and wood chippings, so it was mega compacted down..my back was hurting..a lot! as I only have a little spade, so digging involves a lot of back bending..I was aware of becoming fatigued and grumpy as the developing mess around me..developed some more..I was also aware of wishing all the digging and hard graft was done with, and the landscaping part of my growing garden was complete.

I had a thought then which made the rest of today's work more bearable..I compared the landscaping of my garden to my life..without dealing with all the dirty jobs and shitty things I kept unearthing..without putting in all the hard physical work and endless hours of time to build good strong foundations, and rid the soil of contaminations , I would just end up paying for it down the line with a crap harvest and more hard work trying to repair what had broken.

I figured I was actually really lucky to have this garden..it's bigger than my last one by far and there are no plants in it apart from a Japonica Camelia (identified by facebook friend Jilha and later confirmed by Bear..thank you both). So basically, I moved here in sept 2009 and I have a blank canvas..in more ways than one..in the way my thoughts progress and work things out, I am very lucky indeed..(-:

Over the next couple of days I'll be going right back to the beginning of this year's cycle..when I decided I was staying here and started to think about growing..I've already come quite a long way in the past couple of months..so that's all for now.

Oh I may as well add this picture too..this is the garden back in august '09, when I first viewed the house..