I admire your forward planning ! Personally l think it's good to make a list (although l appreciate it's not everyone's thing). It gives you something positive to aim for, especially in the current climate. I also agree with @philippasmith2 's comment about including a couple of jobs that you've already done. Okay, it's cheating, but it's also encouraging 😊
It certainly won’t happen every year. I just inherited this garden 12 months ago, so I need to adapt it from enjoyment for mum’s last years to mine for the next years and decades.
Ferdinand
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
That's a good thought to hang onto @Ferdinand, a continuity between your late mother and yourself, although I am sorry for your loss.
I would suggest that you try to get hold of a copy of Alan Titchmarsh's book 'How to be a Gardener', in my opinion one of the best ever gardening books, especially for beginners. It has a section on the Seasons and what to do when, so plenty of lists.
That's a good thought to hang onto @Ferdinand, a continuity between your late mother and yourself, although I am sorry for your loss.
I would suggest that you try to get hold of a copy of Alan Titchmarsh's book 'How to be a Gardener', in my opinion one of the best ever gardening books, especially for beginners. It has a section on the Seasons and what to do when, so plenty of lists.
I'll see just how many shelf-metres of gardening books I have first, but thanks very much for the suggestion . It is possible I already have it.
I have some really quite obscure ones, going all the way back to the original "Self-Sufficiency" by Wotsit-Thingamajig in 1976 or whenever it was, and earlier items.
I do not think that in 2020 I'll be building one of his famous Fandango Furnaces.
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
A fellow gardening book enthusiast then! Four shelves full and counting!
Sooooo tempted to start a thread of photos of gardening bookshelves... “are your gardening books taller than you?”
I make mine somewhere between 1.2 and 2m of shelf run, and that is the lounge only, but probably a quarter of that is about trees and tree cultivation. And it excludes cookbooks and books about ingredients.
Most of the gardening books are inherited, like the Garden itself.
F
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
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It certainly won’t happen every year. I just inherited this garden 12 months ago, so I need to adapt it from enjoyment for mum’s last years to mine for the next years and decades.
Ferdinand
I would suggest that you try to get hold of a copy of Alan Titchmarsh's book 'How to be a Gardener', in my opinion one of the best ever gardening books, especially for beginners. It has a section on the Seasons and what to do when, so plenty of lists.
I have some really quite obscure ones, going all the way back to the original "Self-Sufficiency" by Wotsit-Thingamajig in 1976 or whenever it was, and earlier items.
I do not think that in 2020 I'll be building one of his famous Fandango Furnaces.
I make mine somewhere between 1.2 and 2m of shelf run, and that is the lounge only, but probably a quarter of that is about trees and tree cultivation. And it excludes cookbooks and books about ingredients.
Most of the gardening books are inherited, like the Garden itself.
F