gardening magazine

Savvy_Sue

Thanks for those latest suggestions. I might suggest Amateur Gardening to MIL, but she might feel a weekly is too much ... or that he won't know which week he's supposed to be looking at. But maybe she could keep him on track? She never used to do anything out there, it was always HIS garden.

I wondered about buying several, but fear he would be overwhelmed.

lozza1985

There's is a lot of lee-way with when a lot of jobs should/need doing, like doing it a few weeks after they say it should be done is still fine, so perhaps every couple of weeks she throws away the oldest magazines so that he only has 4 (a months worth) in the house at the most then they shouldn't go far wrong

I've found it to be interesting and yet it keeps things simple at the same time covering a bit on growing your own too as well as general gardening jobs. Maybe as suggested above buy a couple of different ones and see what works best.

mansars

To add to my above point you can use your Nectar points to subscribe to Gardeners World & Grow Your Own.

Gardeners world have a leaflet in most months offering the first 4 issues for £1 each which I am using at the moment.

Hope this helps

BlondeHeadOn

One thing to watch out for with the 'glossy' magazines is whether what you get is not the main magazine at all but what is called a 'subscribers issue'.

What this seems to mean is that you get a lot less for your money, as there are no free gifts included and you have a special 'subscribers cover' with hardy any information on it - presumably to try and hide the fact that you are missing the free gifts etc.

I get really cross with this sort of magazine subscription, and have cancelled a couple of subscriptions where I thought I was getting a much lesser deal than if I had gone and bought a copy in the newsagents!

Incidentally, I think the Gardener's World maggie is becoming like this....

Sorry, this is a particular gripe of mine...

Uther

If you subscribe to Grow it magazine 6 months for 15.84 you get 10 packets of free seeds.

Use the link for subscribe at the the top of growitmag.com web page. The link on the side of the page takes you to unique magazines where the price is the same but no free seeds.

Mollymoonlight

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Thanks for those latest suggestions. I might suggest Amateur Gardening to MIL, but she might feel a weekly is too much ... or that he won't know which week he's supposed to be looking at. But maybe she could keep him on track? She never used to do anything out there, it was always HIS garden.

I wondered about buying several, but fear he would be overwhelmed.

Hi Sue, my mum is in the final stages of dementia and has been in full time care for the past 18 months after my dad and I cared for at home for ten years, so I can sympathise completely. My opinion would be that GW would be ideal because its always so lovely to look at. Keeping his interests up is vital his condition, the more you can keep his life normal, the longer you'll have him with you. I'm sure you're well aware of this already.

Mollymoonlight

Sorry Sue, just saw the other part of our post. Have you thought about getting him a planner or something to help with keeping him on track? You could help him plan out the jobs he needs to do for the coming month and have him tick them off as he goes. Something large and on the wall would be best, like a whiteboard. I got one a few years back from tesco for a couple of quid. It was separated into 7 days over four weeks. Good Luck!

Savvy_Sue

Thanks, I might see if MIL would consider something like that, but TBH she doesn't seem terribly receptive to suggestions which would change their established way of doing things. Which is that Dad takes complete responsibility for the garden, and no-one else needs to have any involvement.

I think she'd say that he'd forget to look at it, which is quite true, but she could remind him to look at it and tell him what's on it!

We didn't get him a gardening magazine, as we had other ideas, but I will talk to her next time we see her (which may be quite soon as his sister has just died).

Mollymoonlight

She'll be finding it difficult to accept change, my dad was exactly the same. My mum did everything for my dad, when she got sick it took him a very long time to realise how much things were changing. I remember when they went on holiday one year, I told him to make sure mum packed everything she was supposed to for him before they left. Of course he didn't, and when they got there she'd packed him a pair of shorts and a towel! We have a laugh about it now, but it was a big wake up call for him at the time. Your MIL's doing the right thing making sure they keep things the same for now, big changes in routine aren't good for him, but in the same way someone losing their eyesight or hearing would need aids to help them live a normal life, so do dementia sufferers in the early stages. I'm really sorry to hear about his sister, I hope he's dealing with it ok. Take care x