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Your Garden Sitter's Checklist

It's not so easy to hand the care ofspend valuable time on keeping the
your garden over to another person. Butspinach going during your two-week
sometimes, you just have to do it, andvacation.Then make clear your greatest
you might as well make it as painless aspriority, such as "This is an organic
possible for both of you by preparing agarden, so please use only the supplies
checklist, giving a brief tour, and thenin my shed. No Round-up or Miracle Grow,
letting go of all illusions of controlthank you." But in general, your
over what happens in your absence.Sincetemporary help shouldn't be asked to
one characteristic in common among manydeal with fertilizing or pest control
gardeners is the enjoyment of bringingunless you're going to be gone a long
order out of chaos, the letting go oftime, or the person owes you a really
all control part is the hardest, andbig favor.Now, for the tour. Before you
perhaps the most important. So let'sleave the precious vegetable or flower
save that for the end and start with thegarden in a caretaker's hands, make a
easy stuff: the garden sitter checklistpoint of meeting with your garden sitter
and tour.Keep it simple. Trust yourin person in the garden. Make sure she
garden caretaker to have some sense, andknows where things are, from watering
just give general instructions such as,tools to an emergency number for
"Thin the vegetables if they look likebackup.Also, make sure she knows what
they need it. Weed if you're inspired.things are. Else, she might pull the joi
Harvest whatever is ripe and enjoy itchoi, thinking it's a weed rather than
yourself or share it with friends. Wateran Asian vegetable.And that brings us to
before the plants start to droop fromthe letting-go-of-illusions-of-control
thirst."Then you can go beyond thepart of the deal. If she does mistakenly
general to a few - read, very few -pull the joi choi, oh well. Unless the
specific requests. If your checklistgarden is burnt to a crisp or mowed
gets too detailed, the caretaker will bedown, just be grateful that someone was
overwhelmed, so choose your specialthere to care for it as best she could.
situations carefully. After all, theWho knows? She might even have done some
garden is your labor of love, not hers.things differently and better than you
She's just doing maintenance.Forwould have. Then you've got some new
example, let's say you have a newtricks up your sleeve.Expect miracles,
asparagus trench that is gradually beingand do your best to enjoy whatever it
filled in as the shoots grow. If youwas that temporarily took you away from
have a pile of topsoil mixed with manureyour garden.Life-time gardener Judith
on hand for the interim gardener to useSchwader specializes in organic
as needed to cover the new asparagus,gardening methods. She shares expertise,
then ask her to help sustain thishumor, and advice for your gardening
long-term crop.But if you have a patchsuccess at A to Z Gardening. Also visit
of spinach that is bolting, don't askFB Home for additional home and garden
her to keep pinching off the blossomsinformation.
unless you really really want her to



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