As gardening season gets underway, here's a thought worth sitting with.⁠ ⁠ In the Last Words segment of our March/April issue, Donald A. Rakow writes about something every gardener knows but rarely says out loud: failure isn't the exception — it's the whole point. "Patience is a learned behavior," he writes. "No gardening season should ever be viewed as the final one."⁠ ⁠ Every frost that comes too late, every seedling that doesn't make it, every plant in the wrong place — these aren't setbacks. They're the education. The gardeners who've been at it longest will tell you the same thing: the seasons that went sideways taught them more than the ones that went beautifully.⁠ ⁠ So as you're planning beds, ordering seeds, and quietly hoping this is the year everything works — give yourself permission to get some things wrong. It's kind of the whole point.⁠ ⁠ 🍅 What's the gardening mistake you've learned the most from?⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Read current and past "Last Words" at ahsgardening.org. ⁠ ⁠ Not a ...