I’ve had a busy day! We have a new next door neighbour, and he is replacing the fence between our back gardens, so today he ripped out all of the rotten posts and panels -and, in doing so, made me feel motivated to get some stuff done, too.
My wife and I went out to North Walsham to get some basic groceries from Lidl and some vegetable seeds for our allotment from the local garden centre. When we return to Southrepps my wife decides to clean her car, so while she’s doing that I break up some of the old fence panels in the back garden to use for kindling, fill the kindling basket that sits on the hearth next to the woodburner, split half a dozen logs for this evening and vacuum downstairs.
Our new neighbour has given us a composting bin that he found in his garden, so I balance it on top of my wife’s pink wheelbarrow and we head off to the allotment with it. I dig and hoe a couple of beds while my wife plans out what we are going to plant in which bed. Hopefully we will be able to keep a little more on top of things this year – last year was a bit of a disaster and we had extremely low yields (we spent more on seeds than it would have cost to buy the vegetables, several times over) and it was so disheartening to see the weeds taking over the beds.
By the time we return home, I’m exhausted and any thoughts I had been harbouring of having a go on my new motorised exercise cycle have now gone out of the window. I light the fire and my wife prepares the soup…
As a gardener, do you think exposure to pesticides may have had a causal effect on your PD ?
Hi Stephen
Anything is possible, and I think environmental toxins definitely play a role. My biggest exposure was definitely the mercury in my dental amalgam fillings, though.
Cheers
Ian