Have you ever heard the phrase, “Out of the frying pan and into the fire?” Although originating from Aesop’s fables, I immediately think of the chapter in Tolkien’s "The Hobbit." In the chapter Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and the dwarves escape the goblins to find themselves trapped in trees by Wargs. This idiom essentially means escaping one bad situation and getting into an equally or more difficult situation.
With the arrival of May, many of us spend our weekends and evenings tending our gardens. In fact, after many of you read this article and finish your morning coffee, you will wander outside to work in your garden. As we spend time in our gardens, there are many management decisions where we inadvertently end up out of the frying pan and into the fire.