A Pandemic Gardening Journal Quotes

“Gardening gives you an appreciation for the strength of life, but it also shows you its fragility.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“Because New Jersey is the “Garden State,” I connected the word gardening to what was around me: large fields of grass for horse farms broken up by occasional forests, orchards, or corn fields that then abutted abruptly into cookie cutter housing developments and their smaller dollops of grass. That we lived in the smack middle of the state only solidified the association

garden = grass”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“The dining room’s accent wall was a shade of orange that made everyone who walked through the room take on a Velma-esque glow.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“I’d move to trim the front hedges by hand in an insane act of “yard maintenance.” This act of kaiju sized bonsai left me exhausted to attempt any more complex yard acts, but it did give me time to ponder the control a hand tool can provide.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“I could attempt to Great Escape the rubble out bit by bit in the trash, but that would take who knows how long”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“My avant garde planters complete, they now yearned to be occupied.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“Infinite possibilities stared at my as I began dreaming about April showers and May flowers.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“Ambient temperature and sunlight, those are the only elements that big ball of gas in the sky can influence in plant selection, right? Nope!
Soil temperature is a critical component of successful growing, but is far from a dealbreaker.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“When you do a poor job keeping track of where things are planted and what their maturity times are, it can lead to a bit of a nightmare as you plant things on top of each other, never quite sure what’s a weed and what’s intentionally there. When performed properly, it’s an amazing feeling to harvest something then immediately know there’s a plant that you’ve chosen waiting to fill that freshly opened soil.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“Was this level of care completely necessary? Probably not. Did it fill an evening? Definitely.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“It’s a tree in the strictest sense of the word — deciduous and woody enough it wasn’t some freakish weed, tall enough it wasn’t a shrub, but its scrawniness wasn’t really something I thought added a huge amount of curb appeal.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“I’ve convinced myself that coffee tables are the 21st century equivalent of a castle in the sky.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“The way I think about kimchi is:

leafy plant + crunchy plant + sweet plant + spices = delicious”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal