Sowing seeds = Exercising hope
Like all respectable seeds/plant addict I already started sowing and will continue to do so well into the New Year.
Same like weeding, I feel sowing seeds will easily get you into meditation mood; quietly filling pots and laying out the little ‘beads’ on top, covering, watering; automated like motions….
A large part of the seeds will germinate but only some of the seedlings will get to ‘adulthood’ and even fewer will get to be planted in the garden. This is good. Otherwise, we won’t be able to continue the ‘exercise’.
Full tray with sowings almost ready to go outside: Aconitum spp., Penstemons, Zizia, Leptarrhena, Romanzoffia…to mention just a few
That’s what I came to believe this is all about: the hopeful expectation of seeing the tiny, green sprouts showing up one day; managing to grow the actual plants is secondary. If it happens, fine, but even if does not, we will gladly continue, year after year to repeat the process. It is like exercising hope.
By exercising, one always gets better. See what I’m getting at? :) Keep exercising hope!
Seeds of Aconitum moldavicum and Aconitum cf. kusnezoffii are available now for those interested: moist packed after a short period of dry keeping. To maximize the chances of germination this coming spring you can also treat them with GA3.
Sowing seeds, like all other forms of gardening, is a look into the future. And, it’s all about hope, I think!
Rightly so Tina :)
Yes, indeed, I treasure that same sense of quiet contemplation while sowing seeds. It seems like such an ancient and primeval act.
Working the soil,sowing,tending to plants, all are activities enshrined in our collective memory, that’s for sure :)
I totally agree about the mediative state, so calming, so positive. Happy New Year x
Happy New Year to you too Gill! To health, happiness and beautiful gardens :) xox