What the Allotment Knows About Patience

Plot 14 came with a rusted spade and a neighbour who told me, kindly, that I had sown everything too early.

He was right. Frost took the lot. I resowed in May and learned the garden keeps its own calendar, one you can only join by showing up.

There is a lesson here about writing too, but I will leave it in the soil where it belongs.