{"id":521,"date":"2008-09-24T00:37:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T07:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2008-09-22T03:40:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T10:40:09","slug":"confessions-of-a-gardening-gourmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/confessions-of-a-gardening-gourmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Gardening Gourmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/collection-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-591\" title=\"collection-3\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/collection-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/collection2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-592\" title=\"collection2\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/collection2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/collection1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-594\" title=\"collection1\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/collection1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A gourmet is a connoisseur of delicacies and a judge of good food. Therefore a <strong>&#8216;gardening gourmet&#8217;<\/strong> is a connoisseur of the garden and its impact on all your senses.<\/p>\n<p>A gourmand is more like a gluttonous and greedy feeder who is hard to satiate. A <strong>&#8216;gardening gourmand &#8216; <\/strong>acquires more plants,\u00c2\u00a0 grows more seedlings, takes more cuttings than needed and crams everything into a tight garden space. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am a repenting garden gourmand<\/strong> at least until next spring.<\/p>\n<h3>Avoid the worst of Gardening Gourmandishness.<!--more--><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I will allow weak and frail plants to die peacefully on the compost heap<\/li>\n<li>Quality not quantity will become my new watch word<\/li>\n<li>Specimen plants will be cultivated and cared for in preference to excessive annuals and self sown seedlings that I previously lavished time and effort upon.<\/li>\n<li>Adequate space will be allotted to plants and vegetables will be spaced according to their needs. I will not cram everything together reducing the overall crop but increasing my gourmand factor.<\/li>\n<li>Cuttings will be selected with care and excess plants given away.<\/li>\n<li>Fewer seeds will be bought or collected and sowing &amp; growing on will be restricted.<\/li>\n<li>I won&#8217;t be as parsimonious trying to extract extra results from the garden for nothing.<\/li>\n<li>The number of pot plants will be halved, particularly the smaller poor performing ones that need more care and watering.<\/li>\n<li>Diseased and infected plants will be destroyed promptly not allowing them to linger<\/li>\n<li>I\u00c2\u00a0 collect varieties of one plant but will stop trying to do that for every species that catches my eye.<\/li>\n<li>I must stop being a plonker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Plonking Factor<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Every plant and seedling is squeezed into the ground somewhere. Agh! I know it is daft.<\/li>\n<li>Colour schemes are impossible because a plant will be popped into a vacant space for the sake of getting yet another plant off to some sort of start.<\/li>\n<li>Height and spread are not accounted for when a plant is &#8216;plonked in&#8217; and invariably it becomes the wrong place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So I have to resolve not to be a plonker as well as dropping my gourmand habits<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gourmet is a connoisseur of delicacies and a judge of good food. Therefore a &#8216;gardening gourmet&#8217; is a connoisseur of the garden and its impact on all your senses. A gourmand is more like a gluttonous and greedy feeder who is hard to satiate. A &#8216;gardening gourmand &#8216; acquires more plants,\u00c2\u00a0 grows more seedlings, takes more cuttings than needed and crams everything into a tight garden space. I am a repenting garden gourmand at least until next spring. 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