From the Archive: Slugging it out in the garden – The Irish Times

JANE POWERS presents a who’s who of garden culprits

IT IS THE time of the year when people who have never grown anything before take to the garden. This is entirely a good thing, and should be encouraged. Growing plants – as every gardener knows – fosters contentment and connectedness with nature, gets one out of the house, makes things look better around the place (usually), produces stuff that one can eat, and provides moderate exercise (we won’t dwell on the pesky business of gardener’s back here). Yet sometimes, when I meet hopeful new gardeners, I feel anxious. Gardening is as full of disappointments as it is of triumphs, and if the first outnumber the second, then the fledgling gardener often fails to get wafted away by the excitement of the process, and loses heart.

See more at: Slugging it out in the garden – The Irish Times – Sat, Apr 18, 2009.