Being late is easy, I have friends who are even better at it than me.
This year has been a late starter weather wise. I have been busy and away at critical sowing times and oddly it all fits. This year I decided to schedule everything late, so that we eat the best of the tomatoes for instance and not the Under Gardener whilst we are on holiday.
For this reason I don't think there is a need to post pictures and information on sowing and growing when it was all done last year. It is still there for reference.
Some time ago I voiced my opinion of modern garden writers. The television coverage of
Chelsea Flower Show leaves me colder every year. Ah well.
Now then, if I was to repeat the information and pictures this year on my blog I would be breaking my own rules. I write several blogs and for the odd Magazine, my policy, never repeat yourself for cheap and easy copy.
So many writers are guilty of it.
Going back 35 or more years is when I last took Garden News, quite the best garden publication I think.
I took it regularly without fail for a couple of years then began to smell a rat. I slipped each copy under the bed after reading for a whole year.
The next time I smelt a rat I pulled out the copy for the same date, previous year.
There it was, the same information repeated with no variation due to the current season weather and the very same photographs. Cheap and nasty. Fraudulent I would say.
Interspersed was the short, true real live comment type articles.
It still goes on, you still see pictures of Mr X in one magazine I write and for, and in his books, looking 20 years younger than his present age. The same subject will be covered by him in another magazine using the same style of presentation and the same old pictures.
If you put you self up for regular contributions it must be hard to keep the flow.
However repetition is a game I will not play.
