{"id":82,"date":"2020-08-21T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T17:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/?p=82"},"modified":"2021-01-06T15:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:42:36","slug":"why-i-dont-like-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/2020\/08\/21\/why-i-dont-like-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I dont like Gardening."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have never been interested in gardening but over the years I have been “dragged” into it every so often. My dad used to grow potatoes and flowers….mainly “Sweet Williams”. My mum used to sell them in bunches for a bit of pocket money<\/p>\n

The nearest I ever got to gardening as a child was to be  sent off into the woods to pick blackberries<\/p>\n

My gardening “nightmares” I feel all started after I married hubby. When we came south to live in the first year of our marriage he got a job as a gardener\/handyman to an old couple in a village in Berkshire. As I had a job in nearby Newbury…..I never had to be involved. He was never called by his Christian name but was called “Wake” and I was “Wake’s wife.<\/p>\n

My gardening mishaps started a few jobs down the line when in another gardening job (see my blog post on “My Brush with Royalty<\/a>“)….when I remember having to “help out” a couple of times……..1.Fruit picking….crawling almost on my hands and knees picking blackcurrants All her fruit bushes were under netting and I did not enjoy at all…..No 2…..Hubby had flu so the housekeeper and I were asked if we would do a little bit of weeding…and I did a whole row…unknowing I had pulled a whole row of carrots.<\/p>\n

We had a huge garden in the next place we lived in ….in a village near Godalming. We had friends for tea one afternoon and I served a ham salad. Hubby asked me where did I get the spring onions\/scallions…….I said “from the garden”…….was told we he had not planted any in the garden…..I had only pulled up all his leeks.<\/p>\n

After that, I steered away from gardening until once and only once Hubby was asked to do a bit of gardening with a couple whose shop I did a few hours in and I was included to do along to do a “bit of weeding”…I hated it.<\/p>\n

NO MORE GARDENING FOR ME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have never been interested in gardening but over the years I have been “dragged” into it every so often. My dad used to grow potatoes and flowers….mainly “Sweet Williams”. My mum used to sell them in bunches for a bit of pocket money The nearest I ever got to gardening as a child was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memories","category-my-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}