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DIRTY NAILS

bex finch

Dispatches from the garden and the edge of reason

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I spend a lot of time looking at flowers. James spends a lot of time looking at everything else.

He’s three and a half. After months of planting, mulching, watering, weeding, staking and deadheading—after rearranging the landscape accordin...

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Exhale

For months it was a verb—plan, order, start, harden off, transplant, stake, mulch, repeat.

February was a fever of catalogs, grow lights, and grand intentions. I ordered seeds like a woman placing bets, like more packets meant more certain...

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Daisy

I encountered Daisy six times yesterday. None of them were my Daisy.

The first was on a seed packet while I was standing in the garden center deciding whether I really needed more seeds. The second was in a word puzzle. The third was on a...

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Evidence

By June, there is dirt permanently embedded beneath my fingernails. I scrub my hands after gardening. I wash them before bed. I own four nail brushes, one of which I can locate with certainty. And still, by this point in the season, traces...

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Love With Nowhere to Go

For a long time I thought gardening reassured me because it made me feel useful against uncertainty. Tie the tomato. Cover the seedling. Build the fence. Anticipate the frost.

But after Daisy died, I lost the ability to fully believe in se...

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