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| My cabbage cage is still standing!!! |
Just a little watering and a chance to check on my cabbage cage, which is still standing, and no cabbage whites around to spoil the view - as far as my plants were concerned!
Now for some pruning. I seem to have, perhaps, taken off just a little too much but, the trouble with this view is that it fails to take into account the dead wood just beneath the plants top layer of greenery decorating the various garden bushes.
It all looked lovely and lush and green and fresh but the blackened and lifeless stems beyond, told another story of unfortunate neglect and poor management.
All shrubs, like trees, need to be managed; kept in trim with regular prunings and garden perspective, for the problem of shade. And, yes, it's good to have shade and the right shade is essential.
Such as the shade to sit under which is so necessary for all of us. Plants need shade too, in which to grow and develop and avoid the high burning heat of summer. Vegetables need an absence of shade to be, and give, of their very best, to bring on the full glory of the freshness of the array of colourings we all love to buy, and bring home to our kitchens.
The right shade, in the correct depth and intensity, is cool, delicious and essential, in the exact spot where the gardener, including everyone else, needs it to be, and pruning is the key to achieving this highly desirable state.
And, sometimes, you have to be brave and take out more than perhaps, at first sight, is deemed to be acceptable and comfortable.
So I did.....it will soon grow again!!!
Happy gardening!
Daisy
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| definitely improved! |
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