As we wander around the nursery, they’re careful to explain that even though the plants will die in the winter, they will come back next spring. For inspiration, I’ve been ingesting a steady diet of Monty Don’s “Big Dreams, Small Spaces,” an aptly named British gardening show (on it, people have — you guessed it — big dreams and small spaces). A garden is a journey, he says to the camera in one episode, one that’s never perfect, never finished. My most recent struggle happened in the kitchen garden area, where I was thinning out the lettuces, which I grew from seed. I texted my Minnesota gardener friend a picture of the too-stuffed lettuce bed and said “AFRAID TO DO THIS” and she replied, “Don’t be.

Source: New York Times June 01, 2019 20:15 UTC