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What have you learned from your summer garden? Write it all down
19.08.2023 - 04:33 / irishtimes.com / Fionnuala Fallon
August is many ways a time of reckoning in the garden, an impossible-to-avoid visual record of seeds sown or not sown, of plants that are flourishing and others that are lost or languishing. For the very same reason, it’s also a great time of year to take careful note of what’s failed, what’s succeeded, and the many reasons why. But just don’t rely on memory alone. Instead if you set aside an hour or two this month to jot it all down in a garden notebook, you’ll be forever grateful that you did.
Are there, for example, any plants that catch your eye for all the wrong reasons, perhaps because of the colour of their flowers, or their untidy growth habit, or the fact they seem to inevitably succumb to disease at this time of year? Or others that have got too big for their boots, or – the very opposite – are being slowly smothered by their larger, more vigorous neighbours?
Likewise, are there annoying holes in the planting that are only now apparent? Or parts that are overstuffed? Ugly views that you’d love to conceal, or pretty ones that you’d like to highlight? Perhaps a pathway that you’ve noticed is just too narrow when the garden is in full bloom, a vegetable bed that’s just a smidgen too large to give easy access, or a concern about crop rotation that’s nagging away at you? Write it down.
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Maybe you’ve recently discovered that a sunny but exposed area of your garden or allotment might benefit from some shelter in the form of hedging. Or that a once-sunny area has become over-shaded over the years, a gradual result of overly mature trees and shrubs in need of some selective pruning (middle-aged spread is every bit as much a thing in our gardens as it is among us humans). Or perhaps this
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