Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Windy this morning, showery in the afternoon. I dived into the greenhouse at one point, having remembered to bring a couple of module trays from home, and took advantage of a downpour to break apart the block of verbena seedlings crowding themselves into the 9cm pot where I’d hastily sowed them in autumn. Scarcely optimum plant husbandry, but good enough. Pocket knife in hand, lending a point to a handy pencil hastily scrabbled out of a tray of old plant labels and twine (why does anyone need a dibber for seed trays when there are pencils in the world?), teasing apart the roots while tugging gently but with purpose upon a diminutive leaf. Liberating seedlings one by one, long root fibres trailing, easily three times the height of the aerial parts, spooling and prodding them into the planting holes like so many noodles, making me think, a chopstick would do almost as well as the pencil. Seriously. Being in dibbers must be a precarious profession, unless the people who make dibbers also make chopsticks. And pencils.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
