Titanarum

Why does it have to be dark in winter? I don’t like it.

I wonder how plants feel about it. With their roots in the soil I would have thought they feel hard done by. Their movements severely restricted I bet a lot of plants would prefer to be somewhere warmer and lighter right now. I know some plants need frost and hardship but surely the vast majority prefer clemency and care.

Why do we have to put up with winter every year? It’s getting me down to the point I can’t face my responsibilities. I haven’t been on the allotment for more than a week and imagine the worst: upturned compost bins and all the red worms in convoy across the path to find a better life. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the couch grass takes advantage of the privacy and turns the plot into a lawn. The cherry trees will be suffocating under a carpet of shepherds purse, hairy bittercress and dandelion. Gardening isn’t just about food. Plants I’ve been pampering through the spring and summer have been left, like abandoned offspring, to fend for themselves. And that, surely, is worse than if I had never had anything to do with them.

Darkness reigns.