Either [GD Maxwell] is angry because bears ate all his food, or he knows nothing about gardening and working with nature with ease for a productive garden (Pique, May 27, “A gardener’s gospel”).
He sounds a little ungrateful to even have the space in his home [for a] garden. A 2-by-6-foot space in a greenhouse in a community garden costs $75. Why is he complaining about gardening in his backyard with his raised beds?
I would love to visit his house and listen to this man complain about the abundance of space to even have a garden where a bunk bed costs $1,000 a month just to live here let alone [having a] garden in his home. Is his plan to spoil gardening joy for others in the process?
Why is this article so negative regarding the topic of gardening? He claims that organic gardening is torture, but it is far from it! "Gardens and disasters go together,"[he wrote]. Can you say "driving and disasters go together?" How about "airplanes and crashes go together?"
I think he just needs to learn some basics and not be so negative about the natural aspect of human evolution; work with the land and choose plants that work well in his space. If you want tomatoes at all costs regardless of the site, soil, and sun exposure, then it doesn’t make it easy, and of course trying to grow tomatoes will be torture because you are trying to keep ice cream from melting in the sun. Silly.
That’s because you aren’t listening and following simple queues from nature. Observation is free and requires no work!
A simple concept GD Maxwell should learn about gardening is that observation is 90 per cent and actual labour is 10 per cent. Less work and more observation.
I would love to show him how to have an abundant, edible garden without him complaining enough to write an entire article about it. Ya dig!
I did enjoy the article! Thank you for writing it.
Gabriel Pliska // Whistler
