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Archive for Garden Tips

Here’s a good one

  1. Have a daily routine. No matter how small that routine may be, if you do it regularly it will seem achievable after a while and then you can increase your time when you are ready.

Jacks garden tip of the day

  1. Use only what you need.  Plan  before you plant, manage your water, apply just the amendments and fertilizers your plants need for healthy growth.

A bit of Zen in your garden

I recently spent a week at the Tassahara Zen Mountain Center.  The experience was, as always quite profound.  Tassahara is a teaching monastery in the Ventana wilderness east of big Sur. The food is extraordinary, the people are amazing and the staff is very supportive of the guests doing personal retreats, practicing meditation or taking workshops.  This month’s tips will reflect some of the observations I made there that relate to gardening.

  1. Don’t waste time.  Be aware of how you are in your gardening practice.  One can garden to get a task done or to just be in the garden.  If it is to get a task done, don’t waste time in needless actions.