I started gardening back in the nineties and bought everything. Bedding and vegetable plants, compost, tools, seed, pots and propagators. It was the decade of the TV makeover, that kerbside “wow” factor with lots of water features. Instant TV gardening hasn’t improved much because there are too many wanting quick-fix solutions and products at the click of a button near overnight.
Yet what if we embraced a slower, more patient way of gardening? More of an old-fashioned make, do and mend approach? Instant gardening hasn’t always been the norm. For those of us old enough,useful. My dad’s shed was full of such ‘stuff’. Items that my wife, Carol, slapped out of my hand and said, ‘You’ll never use them’ as I cooed at them. I will admit that I have had five sheds, two on allotments, two in the garden and a third sat in the kitchen waiting to be built. I am a magpie in the making, and everything I save does have a use I tell Carol, eventually.
