So. It’s the last day of 2009. I’ve had a pretty fabulous year. It has been fantastic gardening on my own plot rather than surreptitiously taking control of my parents’ garden. And for the first year on the vegetable patch, we’ve had a pretty satisfying crop. I am incredibly happy.
But one of the loveliest things about this year has been digging about on other blogs and gaining plenty of inspiration. I’m very aware that I’m not blogging into a vacuum, and that there are tons of other gardening sites out there. And that’s a good thing: like others, I don’t believe in competitive blogging, mainly because it has a tendency to suck the joy out of things a bit. I blog because I love, not because I want to win.
And there are some posts which have lingered a little longer in my mind. So here they are:
1. The Garden Monkey donned a white floaty dress, grabbed his/her wicker basket, and floated down to a nearby pasture for some foraging. Unfortunately I read this during my lunchbreak at the office, which meant I couldn’t cackle out loud as this hilarious post demanded. The Garden Monkey’s Guide to Foraging.
2. Fed up of glowing autumn leaves, Martyn Cox went in search of some quirky rosehips. Oh, if you thought hips were shiny and red, you have been much misled. This post features purple, black, orange and even spiky, pufferfish-like hips. A new kind of (autumnal) kick.
3. Normally I crouch over my potatoes and pile the soil on manually when I earth them up. But Susy Morris at Chiot’s Run wrote a post on her very neat method, which was beautiful, as usual, and intriguing. Potatoes, the wonder crop?
4. Debbie Webber from Carrots and Kids wrote the most beautiful and slightly melancholy post on the end of her sweet peas and her son’s complete lack of inhibition in totally adoring the flowers. Sweet Pea Swansong.
5. ‘How does nature make colours like that?’ asked one of the shoppers at the farmers market when some iridescent Indian Corn came on sale. Gayla Trail captured the incredible firework colours in this post, Iridescent Corn.
So that’s it. Thank you so much for being lovely readers and for sharing beautiful things this year. Happy 2010.
What were your favourite posts this year? Discovered any new blogs you love?
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