10 ways to prepare your garden for summer
It's gonna be a scorcher this year. You'd better be ready.
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I have not historically been an organised or timely person.
In fact, even that’s too generous a statement.
As a 5 year old, my mum tells me I would regularly get confused between the concepts ‘tomorrow’ and ‘yesterday’. At 7, I routinely forgot whether I was eating recess or lunch, I was late to school every single day, I never knew whether it was Monday or Friday and I had to be bribed to bother to learn to tell the time off an analog clock (what can I say, I’m a digital girl).
In high school, I improved slightly. I could now tell the difference between morning tea and lunch, but I never actually knew what time either of those events started or ended and I essentially floated through the day as you might see a mote of sand float, suspended, through a mighty ocean.
In other words, I’m no good with time. But look, it’s entirely possible that we live in a block universe (a universe in which time exists as a static, physical constant, and rather than time passing by us, we are moving through it). In which case, the passage of time is merely a psychological construct that we have evolved to experience in order to run away from predators, secure food and find mates, and it’s not actually my fault if I can’t seem to fully grasp the difference between past and future. But I am getting carried away.
I may not be great with time, but after over a decade of shouldering the responsibility of something akin to adulthood (ha!) I can say with confidence that I have greatly improved. So much so that - look at me!!! - here I am in October helping you prepare your spring garden for summer!!!
That’s unheard of!!
That is a degree of preparedness that you wouldn’t even expect from a soldier readying herself for battle! I’m very proud. And, more to the point, I am very pleased to be able to offer you my 10 recommendations for things you can do now (in October!!!!) to prepare your garden for summer.
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