I know it’s only February and it seems like it’s really early to start thinking about planning a garden, but the truth is in my corner of Canada our growing season is typically really short - like June through the end of August into the beginning of September kind of short. This means that for a more prolific vegetable garden, we have to start planting and growing things inside in the next couple weeks. My mom actually has already started.
As I’m sitting here contemplating the piles of seeds, pots and potting mix I have waiting for me, I’m feeling a TON of anxiety and I’m totally caught up in so many of the what-ifs.
What if I plant too much and there’s not enough room in our garden for everything? But then also what if I don’t plant enough and our garden doesn’t produce enough food? And by enough, what do I really mean?
I’m trying to do companion planting this year, so how am I supposed to organize everything so that it gets enough sunlight, but not too much sunlight and heat, but also so that it has room to grow, but that there’s no wasted space?
I might be overthinking it. Just maybe.
So, since this is something that I’m going to be working through anyway, I thought I would share the process with you so you see - in real time - how I process my own anxiety and overwhelm that is not OCD related, because that’s a completely different picture which we’ll talk more about next time.
