You Know You Need To Step Away From the Computer Screen
When your garden is growing on your computer screen and not outside in your garden.
This new PC software allows you to plant and grow realistic 3D flower gardens on the screen. When I was first reading about the program I thought perhaps it was a tool to help you with your outdoor gardening. For instance, you could plant the flowers and see how they would look next to each other. Or co-ordinate their bloom times, so that your entire garden doesn’t bloom in early May and then leave nothing but green scruffy plants for the rest of the summer. Which seems to happen to me every year.
Or it could tell you when you were going to plant a shade loving flower in bright all day sun, so you would know this before you ended up with a shriveled brown plant. And yes, this also seems to happen to me every year. Somehow the colorful flowers distract me from things like reading the labels on the plants.
But apparently that is not the case. It is simply a program to grow a flower garden on your computer. Which begs the question, why bother?
Somehow I don’t think this can replace the feeling of getting your hands in the dirt.
Remember years ago, back in the Dark Ages of your youth? (And by your youth I mean my youth.) And watching the Jetsons on television and speculating about not eating food in the future. Instead we would eat pills and squirt a Tang -like substance into our mouths from toothpaste tubes. The one element that was left out of the equation was that we all love to eat good food. Eating is more than just providing fuel for our bodies.
I think gardening is a lot like that. There is something about getting dirt under your fingernails and nurturing plants that can not be replaced by a computer screen.
And to quote Martha, that is a good thing.