Goading the Gardener
T \is interesting to note the widely differing times chosen by 1YA and 1ZB for their respective gardening talks, The former is early on Tuesday evening; there is something in the 1YA expert’s voice that turns it into a devotional ses-sion-I mean this as the highest praise --and I always feel that listeners are as much in love with the subject as he is,
or, if not, that they very soon will be, Certain measures are advocated for the garden; this leaves Tuesday and Wednesday evenings for chewing them over (there is nothing the real gardener loves more than the leisurely ecstasy of planning with catalogues and diagrams), and Thursday for shopping, for the seed shops are too crowded for the connoisseur’s activities on a Friday, The session at 1ZB goes through with much speed and efficiency, but to my mind is more in the nature of a pep talk, It comes
on at lunch-time on a Saturday-on the face of it an excellent moment; but what probably happens is that the man of the house realises (with relief?) that he has laid in none of the onion plants, bonedust, grass seed, or other material$ recommended. Most certainly he will buy them next week, he assures his family, but in the meantime, he says, there is nothing much he can do this week-end, so he puts on his hat and sets out to watch the ball game at Eden Park.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 316, 13 July 1945, Page 8
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243Goading the Gardener New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 316, 13 July 1945, Page 8
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