The fifteen-minute garden

Gardening content is aspirational in a way that is mildly hostile to people with jobs. Here is the version that fits real weeks.

Three pots, done well

Herbs you cook with, one flowering thing for the pollinators, one edible you are curious about. That is it for year one.

• Water in the morning, before everything else asks for you.
• Buy plants, not seeds, the first season.
• Let one thing die without treating it as a verdict on you.