How to organize a spring clean up in your garden

 

• Sit in chair and look out of window at mess left after winter storm sigh...
• Sigh some more, read another seed catalogue.
• Think about cleaning up garden, think about sore muscles, and sore back...think about cleaning up garden another time.
• Think about article you read on stretching, get out of chair and stretch, sit down again quickly... you’ve hurt your back.

• Look for garden gloves carelessly thrown in cupboard last fall, realize that you have many, many singles, and no matching pairs.
• Know that Martha Stewart would have them all organized according to size, and color.
• Realize that you are not Martha Stewart,  go outside with one lime glove, and one hot pink glove, who cares what the neighbours think.
• Vow to be more organized with garden gloves next fall.
• Look for gardening tools carelessly thrown in cupboard last fall, fail to find anything even closely resembling a garden tool.
• Vow to be more organized with garden tools next fall.

• Using a child’s plastic toy shovel, start to carefully dig the mounds of leaves left by winter storms covering the new shoots of your precious perennials
• Give up digging carefully, and use child’s toy rake.  Destroy many new shoots of precious perennials. Oh well, plenty more were those came from.
• Realize you have just destroyed your $95.00 Peony. The one you never told your husband about yet.
• Sit in chair and look out window at messy garden.  Sigh.

 

Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams