I just discovered the Garden Rant blog last week, and I have a full-on blog-crush on it. Gardening with an attitude, who knew.
This post on Asparagus – but actually about so much more – is just awesome. Favorite quotes:
It’s better to live the dream and assume that the harvest is assured, instead of pinchedly calculating the probability of happiness and refusing to risk anything when the odds are against you. Or so I’ve learned from the humble asparagus.
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It’s one of my basic principles as a gardener: Never trust anybody who tells you to dig deeper than a shovel’s depth. I suspect that deep-digging is like Scientology, a cult of self-betterment for the gullible.