Q. It’s getting close to Father’s Day, and my family has been having rather lively “discussions” over choices in gifts. Our father is a keen gardener who enjoys growing vegetables for the family as well as flowers for the house.
He also does some of the cooking with the garden’s produce. A. You already have major insights into gifts that will delight your father.
Think of tools and gardening aids that would enhance his enjoyment of vegetable and flower gardening — ones he does not yet have. Perhaps there is a tool or other gardening aid that he would find useful. In these times of unpredictable weather, many food gardeners have become puzzled over the right timing for seeding various vegetables.
Online charts showing preferred soil temperatures for planting different vegetables are easy to access. A simple soil thermometer is a useful guide to planting times. If your father is among the crowds of men who love tools and gadgets, there is a vast array of such items to choose from.
A tour of local garden centres might unearth a few new and unusual flower transplant that would add interest to your father’s floral repertoire. Perhaps he would welcome a collection of culinary herb transplants to enhance his cooking endeavours. You describe him as an industrious person.
You might want to encourage rest periods with a comfortable lounge chair together with a hanging basket or patio pot of bright flowers to place beside his preferred sitting out place. Or consider a beau.
