1. Securely fasten hair. Do not think that crab claw clip will stay in place when branches brush against it.
2. Have a pop-up straw instead of a screw off top water bottle. Pushing the button on the side is much cleaner than turning the cap and watching the little dirt particles fall off your glove into the container.
3. Wear those gloves. There's a reason you bought them. There's a reason Little Cuter sent them.
4. Long sleeves and long pants are crucial. Yes, it's 80-something-degrees at 7:30 in the morning and it's only going to get hotter but those prickers are just as sharp whether it's cool or hot outside.
5. You have a kneeling pad. In fact, you have two. Use them. The gravel ground cover/mulch does not feel good on bare skin. It is really hard to kneel on, too.
6. Bring all the tools you think you'll need with you. It's easier to put away that which you haven't used than it is to get up from the ground and retrieve the missing items.
7. Don't put too much on your plate. Bring everything for one type of activity. Don't assume that fertilizing and pruning and planting will all happen at the same time.
8. Step back and look before you begin. Step back and admire when you're finished
9. Do most of the pruning and weeding before the yard guys come. Let them pick it up and cart it away. Save your energy for the fun stuff.
These should be posted on my garden shed door!
ReplyDeleteIf only.... it's not that I remember them all, as the prickers from the roses will attest.
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We are grubbing out the desiccated cabin garden on Whidbey Island. Unfortunately no yard guys will be coming to haul it all away. We'll be bagging it and taking it to the yard waste dump where it will be made into compost.
ReplyDeleteI have my knee pads and long pants and sleeves and I hope to survive to walk again.
As long as you don't do permanent damage (!) that's the best kind of tired there is.
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