Today I was in one of my greenhouses, supposedly doing my least favourite gardening job of all (but failing in spectacular fashion
) and I began to wonder about what gardening related chores other forum members least liked doing.For me it's thinning out. I simply hate doing it and, to be honest, I rarely have the heart to nip out the 'weakest' seedlings, preferring instead to repot/replant each and everyone
That is why I now have 16 Lollo Rossa Lettuce seedlings in individual pots (instead of the eight or so I intended to keep from this latest sowing), and that's not even taking into account two more 3" square pots with more Rossa seedlings from my over enthusiastic and somewhat heavy handed sowing a few weeks ago. Thankfully, having the school garden to stock as well means that some of my surplus can go there and should look quite pretty next to the Buttercrunch lettuce the children have grown.
Of course 16 Rossa probably doesn't sound too bad until you factor into the equation, 16 Webbs Lettuce seedlings, 6 pots of Mixed Salad Leaf and a further 6 x 3" packed pots of Salad Bowl that are waiting 'thinning' (let's not mention the rocket and land cress)
I also have: 30 Chilli plants (a second sowing made 'just in case' germinated as well as the first sowing); 12 Cherry Tomato plants (as with the chillis I second sowed because the first batch look terribly unwell for a while and then perked up); not forgetting 5 Tumbling toms and 5 hundreds and thousands toms.
Oh and I nearly forget the 53 Campanula seedlings currently taking up rather a lot of space in my second greenhouse which I must point out was due to the over enthusiastic sowing by my youngest (obviously takes after her mother
).Every year I promise myself that I'll toughen up and every year I fail miserably and end up with far too many seedlings and not enough room (although I do eventually find a space for everything to my OHs utter amazement).
So what aspect of gardening is it that everyone else dislikes?
VPM
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