And dig ... and weed ... and feel the burn!

February 10, 2005

And dig ... and weed ... and feel the burn!

This piece, which originally appeared in the Glasgow Herald, proves what gardeners have always known: that gardening is good for your general fitness level.

But the faddish notion of speed gardening (inevitably from across the pond) of turning your weeding and digging into some kind of Fonda-esque aerobics routine is utterly ridiculous, as landscape designer Jasmin Cann points out in the piece:

We in Scotland are used to seeing gardeners hunched down under hedges and shrubs wearing jeans, jackets and knee pads. I think this sounds very frantic, very Jane Fonda, and it seems to me to miss the meditative aspect of gardening. I just can't see aerobic gardening taking off over here.

10 Feb 2005 15:18:41 | My garden

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To-do part two You've had January and February - here's March: Sow tomatoes brandywine, auntie madge and gardener's delight in heated propagator; on the allotment, sow sorrel schiavel, sow lamb's lettuce and the beetroot where the name on the packet's rubbed off, sow peas karina and sugar rae, plant pink fir apple potatoes mid-March, plant jerusalem artichokes. Sow leek toledo. Finish planting the shallots if, as I predict, I haevn't got around to it in January or February.

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