If you tend your garden yourself, there is always a danger that all you will see as you walk around it is a worryingly long list of jobs. This tendency must be resisted. Over the last few years, the month of January has become a sort of secret weapon for me in this regard.
I now dedicate January to getting all the jobs in the garden done that I haven’t managed to do in the year before. As a result when I walk around the garden in the rest of the year and notice a job that needs doing, and I start to wonder whether I will ever get the chance to do it, rather than panicking, I add it to my list of jobs for January.
