How wonderful to hear many of these gardening feelings articulated, of wonder, of mystery and magic. But also the touchable world of slimy worms and power packed seeds bursting forth in spring. I look forward to reading your books.

Loved this and THANK YOU. SO NEEDED.

Thank you; so enjoyable. Greetings from Australia 👍

Totally loved it. Thanks much !

Interesting.

In England, when you compare it to other countries, as Thomas More in his book Utopia said that evey man should have a garden that is what we built. England is full of houses with back gardens. They took him at his word and did what he advised. In Chiswick, where I lived as a child, The Duke of Devonshire had made a lot of little houses, streets of them and they had a tiny front garden, for the wife to put flowers in and a long back garden for veggies. typical English ethic houses. not very wide but several floor high so as to hav ea narrow but long garden filling in the block of houses from behind. I married a Spaniard and to my suprise, evey town house here was an heap of flats with no gardens, both in the old and new constructions, though democracy brought with it a few building sites full of workers houses with gardens, in cities. A town house here, in towns. is normaly a flat, in a six or more storey house with no garden. Thomas More´s book made the English build houses with gardens for the poor as well as the rich, in the Center of London as well as when they built Council houses in villages. Culture is extrodinary. You just try having a winter garden in Spain, Monty Don. They are so afraid of fires in the Mediteraean that they have empoverished every tiny bit of land in order to stop fires or by purposeful over grazing or using herbicides. First you let the sheep and goats eat the grass down too far and then you go over the land again ence a week, to eat any grass stalk that dares to show its head, so as to reduce fire risk. WIthout a plant allowed to grow on the land, the soil starts to totally lack nitrogen that is the result of plant breakdown. Here when they have totally left the land barren it is left to cistus plants that cover the bare hills and slowly regenerate it, but very slowly, till grass starts to grow again. On the other hand Spain is great land for, delicious time fed sheep. The ground is full of hardier plants than grass, like lavender, time and rosemary . When the purposeful over grazing, leaves the land barren, with no plants to eat, the sheep dont spend a lot of time fertilising the land and with no plants and their natural break down tofertilise the land either the land v¡becomnes a death sentence for pastures. Worse amd also common, the use of herbicides to reduce the very burnable grass, in the dry season. The use of herbicides to do for grass also weakens trees and leaves then open to desease. Here you plant a plant and it does not grow unless you have more art than me and put on a lot of manure before you plant it. also you have a dry season to deal with an done in which no on ewants you to use water. Here there are a lot of mountains, so cutting hay instead of over grazing till you have done for pastures to reduce fire damage, is hard. Tractors are not very stable on hillsides. The famouse Fukuoka Masanob with h his one staw revolution, said that the mediteranean soils were badly treated. If you are a toursist you think the lack of vegetable covering is because of the heat but in Autumn it rains in winter and the grass grows back again, the problem is over grazing or herbicides for fear of fires. It is not the goats faults as people imagine, of goats i have whatched shepherds dont let the goats dont eat more than the shepherd allowe them to eat, a small percentage of a tree, they are carefully vigilated.