Lawn Mowing vs Gardens

Spring is Sprung
The Grass is Riz
I wonder where the Lawnmower iz.

It’s that time of year. At least in South Texas it is. The trees are budding. The grass is green and growing and so are the weeds. Somehow this seems all wrong.

I have a love/hate relationship with Spring. How can you not love the fresh feel of the sun’s warm rays cascading onto you after the long dank gray
winter? Everything seems better in the Spring. Sports events spring to life….pardon the pun…..strolling in the late of evening or early morning just seems better in the spring. But there is the flip side to all this feel good stuff. There‘s lawn care..…and who in their right mind actually likes to mow the lawn?

The French don’t. Instead of a lawn full of useless grass…they have gardens…..all sorts of gardens….vegetables….fruits…flowers…lovely hedges…& so what does that say about us? 90% of our land is lying unproductive and completely useless. Okay…grass isn’t completely useless but unless you raise cows it isn’t really doing anything for you.

And trees? What kind of trees are lining your driveway? A couple of years ago we planted some fruit trees and since then have enjoyed the fruit of our labor. (forgive the pun). If you have only tasted the fruit in the stores, then you don’t really know what a peach tastes like. A fresh peach picked off of a tree is so sweet and juicy you’ll think you are experiencing a gastric orgasm. We also planted an orange tree. The thing is thriving and all winter we had fresh oranges from our own tree. These oranges were a deep red orange instead of the peaked anemic ones you buy at the store. Still ,I have a long way to go. The love of gardening has yet to root itself in me but I do so love the results. I guess it is sort of like my job….I hate but LOVE the paycheck.

On this beautiful March day, I spent the better part of the afternoon trimming my Cannas. They bloomed all winter and then at the bitter end of February we had 1 night…1 lousy night which dipped into the twenties and the chill bruised my tall red cannas….

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