Finding time to garden

It's crunch time

I have a bad case of imposter syndrome at the moment. I’m spending so much time promoting the new gardening book, that I can’t find time to actually garden. And, in the case of my kitchen garden, those seeds won’t sow themselves.

We left our winter spot in New Orleans around a week ago, too bad it always coincides with the best weather and everything blooming. I did get to enjoy my Louisiana iris and the beginning of the jasmine. (Have you ever read something like, “and the air was perfumed" with the scent of jasmine?) That’s a real thing, the air so sweet smelling!

My native Iris are bursting through the boundaries.

Sweet-smelling star jasmine blooming over all over the city and on my fence.

And then it’s time to leave.

Back to the brisk cold of the start of a Minnesota spring. And then a day of weird heat and then back to cold. Such is the stuff of the our new climate reality. I really should be out there working in the manure and compost that awaits me in the kitchen garden. But the book will have me busy for at least the next six weeks. I will have to squeeze in gardening time somehow.

Meanwhile the book launch last night at Magers and Quinn Booksellers was a big success. My panel of gardening personable, knowledgeable colleague/friends made it so much fun. I shouldn’t have stressed so much beforehand. The audience was great, lots of supportive, familiar faces and lots of enthusiastic older gardeners. After all the book is Garden for Life: Strategies for Easier, Greener, More Joyful Gardening as We Age.

A great gathering for the book launch at Magers and Quinn Booksellers.

The next event is a book signing at the Spring Open House at Heidi’s GrowHaus, on May 2 in Corcoran, MN, if you’re local. If not there are several programs where you can hear me talk about the topic of aging successfully with your garden.

On Wisconsin Public Radio, Growing Old with Your Garden. (Yikes, not sure about that title!)

And with Joe Lamp’l on the Joe Gardener Show, Joyful Gardening at Any Age

Until then, happy gardening!

Rhonda