1. You hesitate to ask your teenage son to help you in the garden because you're afraid his pants will fall down.
2. You call your wife on your cell phone from the garden and ask
her to bring you a beer.
3. Cutworms just wiped out an entire row of tomato seedlings and you drown your sorrows by drinking expressos.
4. You chat online each day with a fello gardener from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor all year.
5. You use a handheld GPS to mark the rows in your vegetable garden.
6. You take pictures of your garden just to make a new screen saver.
7. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
8. You haven't bought anything with real money in years.
9. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored post-it notes.
10. You checked your tiller last year to make sure it was Y2K compliant.
By Richard Werner
Plant radishes, beets and carrots when soil thaws, usually a few weeks before the last frost. Sow seed in rows or broadcast them. Gently press into soil, and keep moist.
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
~Rudyard Kipling
