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Whimsical reflections on the joys, pitfalls, and follies of gardening by a devoted gardener and witty writer who on occasion steps back from sowing and weeding, planning and planting, to poke fun at the whole process.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the publishers of Garden Design and American Horticulturist for permission to reprint (in somewhat different form) "Presently, in the Past" and "Kitchen Garden."
Copyright 1986 by Timber Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
Paperback edition printed 1994.
ISBN 0-88192-310-9
Designed by Sandra Mattielli Printed in Hong Kong
Timber Press, Inc. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Grissell, Eric. Thyme on my hands / by Eric Grissell; illustrated by Taina Litwak. p. cm. ISBN 0-88192-310-9 (pbk.) 1. Gardening. 2. GardeningMaryland. I. Title. [SB455.G74 1994] 635dc20 94-37137 CIP
Page v
Contents
Preface
1
1. Presently, in the Past
3
2. A Matter of Time
11
3. Greengrocers
19
4. Of Indecision
27
5.... and Backbones
37
6. Paper Gardens I
43
7. Paper Gardens II
55
8. Musical Manure, Or a Matter of Piles
61
9. Potting up the Pathway
69
10. Amongst the Rupturewort
77
11. One-Legged Crickets
83
12. Pause for Paws
93
13. Summer Thoughts (and some are opinions)
103
14. Battle of the Bulbs
111
15. Winters of My Discontent
119
16. Kitchen Garden
127
17. Not Gardens (Or manmade follies and other natural disasters)
133
18. Call It by Some Better Name
147
19. Gardeners: An Appreciation
155
20. Gardens: An Affirmation
165
21. Gardening: An Institution
175
Page vi
To Virginia and Coulter for opening the garden's gate
Page 1
Preface
If you want to know "how" to garden you are advised to throw this book down straightaway and look elsewhere. The world has gone quite mad with such books, and there are far too many already on the marketsome even written by people who know what they're talking about.
For quite a few years I have poked about in the soil myself. Enough years, at least, to know that I haven't the foggiest notion of what I'm doing. Let us be honest at the start, then, and say that herein you will find no answers to "the gardening questions of the ages." I have few answers to much of anything if the truth were known, and even when I think I might, someone has changed the questions. So let us not talk of answers, or even of questions. Let us talk, instead, of gardening, with a full understanding between the two of us that any information which might prove useful is merely an accidentI have not set out to be useful.
Physically, gardening requires a fairly strong and willing body. It requires even more an incredibly stubborn exercise of will. Its demands on the mind, however, are not overly excessive, and it is this factor which seems to suit me particularly well. In fact, so much of gardening's time is spent in pursuit of the repetitively inane that my mind often simply wanders off into its own dimension for want of anything better to do. Such distractions form the basis of the excursions which follow.
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