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Originally Posted by Spider[_3_]
The sad thing is, with Bob's tale, that this person *wants* to garden
and has an allotment, but doesn't have the wit to ask for advice or read
a good book on the subject. He's lost his crop(s) for at least one
year. Hopefully, he'll realise his mistake and start learning.
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Making mistakes is a good way of learning. You don't really know why you're doing something, and how well you need to do it, until you have seen the consequences of not doing it.
A lot of garden advice has come down from big gardens, and from maximising yield. If you can get 80% of the yield from 50% of the effort, and you're short of time, then it's worth doing.
I like to learn on my own, to try things out, see why it went wrong, think about it, try it differently next time. The thought of gardening "in public" with all the allotment holders around me watching me and mentally criticising scares the pants off me!
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