What's it like being a gardener?
People often ask me this. " What's it like being a gardener? " The short answer is: great, and tiring. The long answer is: I have spent a huge amount of my adult life sat at a desk, staring at a computer screen under strip lighting, in corporate conditions, groaning at emails going round the office about missing teaspoons. It's what a hell of a lot of us have to do to have a mortgage or rent a nice home, and pay the electricity bill. You might be the same. You MIGHT be the kind of person who sends the emails about missing teaspoons. (I hope you're not) Gardening could not be more different. You've got the open sky above you, not a blinking strip light. That's one of the lovely things. My days are immensely varied. I am some people's regular gardener. I pitch up each week with my tools and sensible shoes on, in either hot-weather or wet-weather gear, and I do either what they tell me, or what I tell them. Some of my clients know exactly what they'...