Just because plant life is going into hibernation, we don’t have to give up on our little patches. Lia Leendertz offers up some great reasons to get out into the garden this month
The celebrations over the lie-in that comes with the turning back of the clocks this Sunday (at 2am, if you’re up, and in the UK) leave me cold. Blessed with children whose internal clocks obey no commands, even that one puny benefit is denied me. I wonder if gardeners feel the hour change more than most, being among the few that are still outside by choice after work anyway, many of us still making the most of the already waning daylight that is now about to be cruelly cut short by a full, brutal hour. Suddenly even that twilight gardening will be gone, and our tendency is to withdraw from the garden, pulling the curtains closed behind us.
But just because plant life is going into hibernation, we don’t have to give up on our little patches. There are other reasons to be out in the garden in winter. I am currently crowdfunding to create a reinvention of the rural almanac, a book that will detail all the movements of the sun and the moon, the tides, and the sky, and tie them in to the seasonal food, celebrations and gardening. It is based upon the idea that there is always something to celebrate outdoors and in, every month, and despite my lost-hour-based sulking there is plenty that is special about the garden in winter after dark.
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