Did you catch Adrian Higgins‘ story in today’s Washington Post about taking on the job of teaching fellow staffer Lauren Wiseman to garden? He’s teaching her from scratch. How much of a newbie is she? Well, she bought some full-length and no doubt hot-as-hell wellies from J. Crew as her gardening shoes – that’s how much of a newbie, so Higgins has his work cut out for him. To accompany the story of this journey, wherever it leads, is Lauren’s on-line journal, The Budding Gardener - what a great idea.
So I applaud Higgins for the story idea and for his usual excellent advice. But what should people do if they don’t happen to work alongside an Adrian Higgins? Why, hire a Gardening Coach, of course. Funny thing - I was recently interviewed by the New York Times for a story they’re doing about gardening coaches, so I’m interested to see that I’m not the only one and curious to learn something about the others out there, somewhere. You can bet I’ll link to it here if and when it ever appears in the paper.
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I just got a call from someone who wants me to walk through her new garden with her and teach her how to take care of it. So it seems I’m in the garden coaching business now too. An hour or two of coaching is a great idea for newbie gardeners. Of course, so is garden-blog reading.
I just the first entry in The BuddingGardener journal – I think it is funny that shedoes not consider her property backing onto Rock Creek Park ‘urban.’ Just because you are not surrounded by concrete – doesn’t mean you are not in the city. It sounds like a shady site and potentially a deer-magnet as well. It will be interesting to see how this progresses and what plant choices are made.
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