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At what age did you begin gardening as a hobbie?| Member | Message |
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Posted: Jan/05/2008 12:33 AM PST
I started dabbling in gardening just a few years ago...I just turned 49. This coming Spring I'll be in it full throttle to make a hummingbird habitat...  I was curious due to I don't hear or see too many that are much younger than 40...and when I was in my teens, twenties and thirties, I never imagined I'd be interested in gardening...ever! I couldn't imagine or understand the enjoyment in gardening back then...always thought it was just for old folks...LOL I guess I'm old now...  Whatdoyouthink? |
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Posted: Jan/05/2008 6:53 AM PST
I never had a garden until my 40s. We planted two lilacs about 4 years ago and it's been non-stop digging ever since! I had never really missed having a garden for most of my life, so I'm surprised about how fanatical, I mean devoted, I've become! |
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Posted: Jan/05/2008 7:26 AM PST
I started gardening after I was married and out of the service (first hubby). We lived in the mountains of WV and the soil is so rich. I remember the summer I was extremely pregnant with my first child, having to sit sideways on the ground in order to weed. Gardening stops for nothing!! LB Well if we are talking ages  It has been about 40years for me that I have been digging in the soil, in several different states.
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Posted: Jan/05/2008 7:58 AM PST
I guess I cant count the Marigold in the Dixie cup in church. And being pressed labor in the garden for weeding as a kid don't count either.  So I would say I started my own gardening for pleasure in my late 20's.I |
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Posted: Jan/31/2008 5:50 PM PST
I knew I wanted a beautiful garden in my early 20s I just didnt have a clue back then what I was doing |
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Posted: Feb/08/2008 1:33 AM PST
I started gardening for food. My hubby and I married young and did not have a lot of money coming in so we put in a big garden at his mom and dad's. His mom taught me how to can and freese all kinds of things and at one time I was doing over 200 quarts of green beans every season in addition to all the other foods. Nowdays I do more flower gardening and a few favorite veggies. |
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Posted: Feb/08/2008 11:05 AM PST
I absolutely hated gardening when I was a kid and was picking berries in prickly plants. I did like to feel dirt between my toes especially when dad would lime a few rows. Now I don't think I'd do that. But when I was a newlywed and we had about a 1 foot by 4 foot patch of soil at an apartment in California I managed to stick some beans and a tomato out there mostly for our son to watch grow. After we moved back home I had a full fledged garden in the city limits. lol There's various tales about that one, too! |
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Posted: Feb/09/2008 7:27 AM PST
I married a farmer and we have always had a veggie garden. As the family decreased so did the garden. But my farmer likes to grow things so he has been bringing the garden back into production with newer things, better soil, and heritage vegetables. He is into a healthier lifestyle now he is retired and because I'm a sewer he recommended I get more exercise. So when a visiting daughter helped me plant some annuals in a boring side yard, I got hooked. You wouldn't believe the amount of green stuff (and I mostly mean the $$$ kind) that is buried in our yard. But I think I'm getting it now! I have a full schedule because I garden in the summer and I sew in the winter. (In the overlapping seasons I just run around in circles! lol) Leafette
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Posted: Feb/11/2008 9:03 PM PST
We got married in our early 20's, and we couldn't have been married more than a year or two before we put in our first vegetable garden. We have gardened every year since then. |
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Posted: Feb/15/2008 3:54 PM PST
We got married and bought our first home in our early/mid 20's and had to learn some basic gardening out of necessity. The former owners had made a mockery of what could have been a nice yard by putting in a hideously ugly flower bed out front which had to be destroyed, just on principle alone. They also had azaleas and rhododenrons as border plants in full sun, when we get 100 degree temps for double digit days in summer sometimes. I knew nothing about plants... but after two summers of watching those plants turn spotty and ugly I asked a nursery and was told they weren't meant to be planted in such a location. So.. they went. We've experimented with lots of different types of flowers, veggies, fruits, and trees, and learned a lot. My husband has learned that certain plants don't need to be nearly murdered to be pruned properly (r.i.p. beautiful hydrangea bush, 2001-2004  ). That reminds me.. I need to buy a new lavender to replace the one he killed last year when he got prune-happy on my garden.
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