Titchmarsh, Don, Dimmock or Buckland?

It’s a strange thing how habits can change and one can find oneself over-indulging in new interests.  Am I exaggerating when I say that I have become pre-occupied with gardening?  The evidence is mounting.  I think it all started a couple of weeks ago when I was forced to deal with two horticultural tasks in my own garden.  I didn’t realise what I was getting into…

Firstly, I had to plant potatoes in my rather small and experimental vegetable patch (see previous post).  I took the vegetable growing a stage further and stuck in some cabbage and carrots also (I don’t even like cabbage; but they’ll make good presents for all my friends.)  

Secondly I have the problem of overgrown Laylandii trees which are encroaching on my garden and getting too large to handle.  In a bid to ensure I was planting my spuds correctly and to seek some solutions for my tree problem, I consulted the World Wide Web and the UKTV gardening channel.  Boy, was I opening a can of worms!  Back to back programming of Gardeners’ World with Monty Don and Toby Buckland, Ground Force with Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock, The Garden with Dan Pearson to name a few.  They sucked me in with their ‘top tips for spring’, interesting gardening techniques, and construction ideas.

In the past week I’ve visited 2 garden centres, added a gardening blog to my favourites and helped a 14 month old toddler to plant a sunflower…What is happening to me!?  I know I turned 30 recently but surely I’m too young to be visiting gardening centres and laughing at Titchmarsh’s jokes.  Could this be a mid-life crisis?  A fad?  A change in career? 

Either way I still need to deal with my laylandii.  Answers and advice on a postcard please.