Down in the Dirt

The Right Thing to Do in the Garden Isn’t Always Obvious

My pre-regenerative garden in late July.

GARDENING GIVES YOU TIME to think, and my thinking almost always goes to the garden itself — what’s flowering, the soil, the worms, the bees, what’s thriving or isn’t and why. The pleasure of it all is why I’m there. But in the last couple of years, the warming climate often set me thinking about what more I coul…