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How to organize a spring clean up in your garden

  • Sit in chair and look out of window at mess left after winter storm sigh…
  • Sigh some more, read another seed catalogue.
  • Think about cleaning up garden, think about sore muscles, and sore back…think about cleaning up garden another time.
  • Think about article you read on stretching, get out of chair and stretch, sit down again quickly… you’ve hurt your back.

  • Look for garden gloves carelessly thrown in cupboard last fall, realize that you have many, many singles, and no matching pairs.
  • Know that Martha Stewart would have them all organized according to size, and color.
  • Realize that you are not Martha Stewart, go outside with one lime glove, and one hot pink glove, who cares what the neighbours think.
  • Vow to be more organized with garden gloves next fall.
  • Look for gardening tools carelessly thrown in cupboard last fall, fail to find anything even closely resembling a garden tool.
  • Vow to be more organized with garden tools next fall.

  • Using a child’s plastic toy shovel, start to carefully dig the mounds of leaves left by winter storms covering the new shoots of your precious perennials
  • Give up digging carefully, and use child’s toy rake. Destroy many new shoots of precious perennials. Oh well, plenty more were those came from.
  • Realize you have just destroyed your $95.00 Peony. The one you never told your husband about yet.
  • Sit in chair and look out window at messy garden. Sigh.

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