Three wishes...
Imagine finding an old bottle in the compost. Woo-hoo! A gardening genie! So what to wish for? Three wishes are the usual gift, but they wouldn't be allowed to include anything tricky like 'I wish for an infinite number of wishes'.
Initial ideas...
Initial ideas : A self-weeding garden border? Too sterile. Everlasting roses? Oh no, dear me no. Total gardening control? Aargh! I'd miss the fun of failure, puzzlement when treasured plants don't thrive, or gratitude (maybe misplaced) for all the cute little self-seeders.
NZ Gardener Roses
I often wish that my garden would notice my best efforts, appreciate my hard, thoughtful work, and remember to thank me, like a grateful friend. But now I come to think of it, I sense that this already happens. So I don't need to waste a wish on it. Phew!
Weeding in the Hump Garden
A visiting weeder?
Being more practical, a visiting dedicated weeder would be nice, but using three wishes on a weeder would only give me three days of someone else's time and energy. Not nearly enough. And sometimes - just sometimes - I enjoy getting down and dirty myself, weeding in my garden.
Actually, there is something that I could wish for, and I'd be more than happy to have my three wishes the same, should the rules allow. I wish for three extra, sneakily hidden days of the week or weekend. Like Platform Nine and Three Quarters on the Harry Potter railway station, they're in-between days that aren't really there. Three days of garden magic when heaps of things get done and no energy (mental or physical) is used up. Fingers don't get the slightest bit achy, mind doesn't get the tiniest bit bored. The garden results are amazing, time bobbles happily along, but the calendar stays the same. Hee hee...
Check the use-by date!
Of course I'd carefully check the use-by date, and save each sneaky day for when it was really needed. Great idea!