How does my garden grow

As a gardener, I have wide swathes of time where my hands are busy but my brain is not. It’s left to wander down untended paths. On a recent ramble, it decided I should write a blog post on how gardening is like life. Or at least how my life is like my garden.

My allotment garden Thinning is next to godliness

One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn as a gardener is that, yes, I do indeed have to thin out my plants. ‘But, but, I…my babies?!’ I know, but if you don’t thin, you end up with...