When snow blankets the garden, there is very little the gardener can do outside. It is the perfect time for tinkering and decluttering.
Snow days put a pause on activity. But how we use that time can still contribute, if used wisely. Snow days are the seasonal equivalent of a fallow bed. Fallow beds can be planted with nitrogen-fixing clover and the green turned into the soil. Snow days are a good time to eliminate those odd pots that don't fit into any others and just take up space, toss plant labels that fade in the sun or wash clean in the rain, and clear out stuff stashed and never used.
Like snow days for the garden, our lives benefit from pauses. So many of us are slaves to notification chimes or doomscrolling. Snow days are for taking the time to strip away the ephemeral, leaving the things that truly matter.
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