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Posted: Feb/21/2008 11:06 AM PST
I started gardening with my parents, many, many moons ago. LOL I really didn't like getting my hands dirt at that point, but I loved helping my mom picking veggies and learning to can. She wouldn't let me near it until I was in my teens. She was always afraid I'd get burned. LOL I really got into gardening heavy in 1980 when we spent a large chunk of money on a Troybilt rototiller and started gardening organically using methods I learned from Troybilt as well as a subscription to Mother Earth. That was loaded with all sorts of helpful tips for beginners. Good stuff and still is, now I read it on the web. LOL I'm starting to learn about perennials and am excited to start doing some beds of those. We have 3/4 of an acre and are going to convert part of thie property to flower beds in addition to the veggie beds. |
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Posted: Mar/05/2008 10:08 PM PST
weve allways had vegetable gardens at my uncles house long as i can remember more recentally like 5-6 years ago i started with herbs yhere tho in pots (clay actually) so yea i ALLWAYS use some sorta mint ta control weeds an im trying ta talk my uncle into lettin me do it with his peppers an tomatoes hopefully hell be ok with it this year |
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Posted: Mar/28/2008 5:54 AM PST
I helped my dad and my grandpaw when I was very young. Pushing the plow or helping pick corn, snapbeans, etc. We also did a fund raiser each year at school and would sell seeds. Funny thing now I don't remember what the proceeds were for. |
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Posted: Apr/05/2008 7:31 AM PST
Our second house had two gardens, one for me, the other for my mom. We moved there when I was 6, so I'd say that's really when the active interest in green things started. My son was about the same age as well, still loves to start seeds and harvest, especially blanching and canning the peaches. Loves to slip them out of their skins after a quick dip, although the tomatoes don't hold the same appeal, somehow. Oddest part it that he doesn't like eating peaches at all, right now! |
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Posted: Apr/20/2008 5:33 PM PST
I tried a small back yard veggie garden when I was in my teens. In college, I grew veggies behind the horse barn where I worked - I was a bit of a 'granola' then and wanted to get 'back to the earth'. Learned alot about interplanting, french intensive gardening (I recommend it to everyone who currently plants in rows...). I didn't get into flowers until 8-9 years ago (I thought flower gardens were for pansies  and retired people. I now love my flowers and just don't have the time to tend to a full-fledged veg garden, so we do just a few things we like. The self-sufficient veg garden will have to wait until I'm retired (funny how life makes it's little twists and turns!)
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Posted: Apr/30/2008 7:42 AM PST
I remember tilling soil in my mother's gardening bed when I was a teenager and planting four o'clocks and sunflowers. My mother was not an avid gardener but she would plant green pepper plants sometimes and she had a wonderful rose bush right under the bathroom window. My father planted two amazing sycamore trees in our yard that grew up with me and gave us great shade (the leaves in the fall were another story). So I guess I get my love of gardening from both sides. |
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Posted: Apr/30/2008 3:58 PM PST
I became a DIY years ago, when I would help my grandmother start cuttings. I will go to a stranger's house and ask if I can take a cutting of a plant or tree, then dip it in rooting powder, wrap it and head home to the greenhouse, where I start it. Everything here, with the exception of the pines, have been started that way. Once in awhile, someone will want to get rid of a plant, i.e., miniature roses, and I will adopt them. Our front bank, which was nothing but a clay bank, about a year ago, is covered with two types of ground cover, that the bees love, Lombardi poplars, weeping willows, daffodils, narcisis, rosemary, and Heaven only knows what else. I made a bird bath, but using liquid nails, turned one clay pot upside down, put another on top. then used the water-catcher (don't know what else to call it) as the water bowl. The garden looks like a garden I once saw in England. |
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Posted: May/11/2008 10:07 AM PST
I started playing in the garden when I was about 6 yrs old and still am playing at 47. I love playing in the dirt. I tell people that I grow up in a green house that is why I want one so bad. I have a verily large garden and flower beds. In a couple of weeks my greenhouse will be up. I am using a old car cover shelter. Gardening is not a chore it is relaxing for me. When I was growing up we had the option of housework or going out to the fields to work. Fields it was for me and my older sister. My two brothers hated it but now have beautiful gardens also. My poor mom hated being out in the fields and still can not believe that we all love it. Dad still has a small garden and mom curses it for all the veges dad brings in. Take my dad's garden away from him, it will kill him. I am the same way. |
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Posted: May/15/2008 10:53 AM PST
Growing up I didn't garden myself but I shucked corn, shelled peas, and snapped beans so much that I still don't like having to do it now! Last year the neighborhood kids came over as we were harvesting our corn and wanted to "help" shucking. Boy, did I ever jump all over that one. They had it done in no time flat! I sure hope they come around this time when the peas are ready to be shelled. Anyway...my husband and I started vegetable gardening about 20 years ago. We haven't planted every year, but we have planted consistently these past 8 years. |
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Posted: May/18/2008 5:37 AM PST
I have always worked with flowers, but it was an order, not for fun. Water this, weed that! It was not until my husband and I got hooked on growing herbs that we went nuts. He enjoyed working with flowers and the next thing I knew, the joy rubbed off on me. The Bucolic Bungalow started out with nothing but yards and yards of yard. Now we have more gardens than yards. Just for fun I think I'll try to name them all, but not in the order that they were born. Herb Garden Rock Garden Cement Garden Aunt Winnie's Garden Poison Garden Butterfly Garden Hibiscus Garden Old Gourd Garden Back Forty Potting Shed Beds (three sides) Outhouse Bed Back Flower Bed Front Flower Bed Quarter Round Patio Garden New Daffodil Bed Two Natural Areas Gourd Garden (which now has peach trees) Garden Garden (vegetable garden) Whew! I think that's all of them! |
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