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How I Started Gardening &the Garden in My Roots
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STORY: Being decendants of farmers, it is no surprise my parents always had a garden. This lead to my growing up pulling weeds, picking fruit and vegetables, and watching mom do her canning. When I moved into this home where I am, I immediately needed to start gardening, you could say it was in my roots. I have several gardens here, but my favorite is my kitchen garden, right across the driveway from my kitchen. I raise all my own vegetables
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Lifetime learner
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STORY: Well, I started gardenening on the 4th of July 2013. My boyfreind's daughter was kind enough to let me use her garden. She said, "stuff doesn't usually grow in my backyard but if you want to try it, knock yourself out. It might be too late," she added. Well, since it was late, I used a post hole digger to dig holes for everything. I planted a small garden in less than 1 hour. By fall, I had corn on
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Enjoying Nature
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STORY: I started gardening as a hobby and it grew as the years went by. Love working outside and also enjoy home grown vegetables and flowers. I also enjoy seeing the different critters and insects etc. enjoying the plants. The photo here is a hummingbird moth feeding on a petunia. It is also called a hawk moth. Interesting to learn all about plants and watch them grow. This is one hobby I hope to be able to continue enjoying for a
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Master Gardener Volunteer Trainee
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STORY: I moved from Alberta, Canada to Georgia USA in 2002. I left behind rich black soil to be greeted with hard, nutrient-poor clay. I spent YEARS killing all manner of plants. This year I buckled down and took Master Gardener training, and I did my first soil test, and planted fruit trees (june berries, paw paws, blueberries, figs, mulberries) and put in this raised bed garden!
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A Generational Pastime
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STORY: Since at least the 1800s, each generation has taught the next how to garden including how to use greenhouses. I learned from my mother and I now am teaching my daughter.
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Pot garden
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STORY: I learned to garden when I was a baby & as an adult I started gardening in pots outside my downtown apartment. Now I do it still because it's easier for me.
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Blame it all on my roots...
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STORY: I've been gardening a very long time, I guess you could say it runs in my blood. My mother is a gardener as well just like her mother before her. Speaking of her mother, I was extremely close to my grandmother growing up. She lived out in the country and was one of those little old ladies with long gray hair, funky windchimes hanging from her porch along with hummingbird feeders, free range chickens, many beautiful species of flowers and
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Healthier for my family
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STORY: I became diagnosed with a thyroid disorder back in 1999. Ever since I have become more aware about what I eat and what I feed my family. So after my sons were born I decided to become and organic gardener and learn how to grow and preserve what I grow. It has been a trial and error process for sure, but my sons get excited now to harvest and eat what I grow.
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Our first veggie garden 2018
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STORY: My parents have always been amazing gardeners, and I got a black thumb. Since I got married my husband has been able to help me keep plants alive so this year we started our first veggie garden. We have peas, carrots, lettuce, zucchini, and in pots we have herbs, beans, and tomatoes.