My gardening experience
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STORY: I come from a family of gardeners. When I was about 6 years old my grandmother showed me how to gather seeds and start my own garden. I have been gardening ever since. I am now 73 years old and still garden. I also work in the garden department of my department store and have done so in other stores for 30 years. I have taught many people how to garden. I love it!
Flower Happy
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STORY: My interest in gardening was planted by my great grandmother. She had the proverbial green thumb and grew the majority of her plants from cuttings she collected as we visited neighbors gardens. I remember being gobsmacked the first time I saw her small garden overflowing with luscious greenery and flowers. My love for her and flowers continues over half a century latter.
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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This is the reason I started gardening!
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STORY: It's amazing to see what happens when you start adding plants around your home. So many things appear that you didn't see before you planted flowers, shrubs and vegetables. Beautiful insects and animals appear as if by magic. When we started building our home there were no birds, squirrels or butterflies to be found. We started with a few plants and a few turned into many and nature blessed us with so much wildlife that it's a joy to continue
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Our first little garden
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STORY: I've always helped my mother garden as a child but now that I'm older and have my own child, I wanted to have our own garden! It's a great way for my daughter and I to spend time together and she's also learning tons! We're starting off small, tomatoes, bell peppers, corn and sunflowers!
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.
First Harvest!!
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STORY: Our grandson Candan loves being outside in the backyard with his papal, whether its playing on his playground his papal built for him or just hanging out with him but one thing for sure is he loves helping him in his vegetables garden and picking the right ones, sometimes he can't even wait for me to slice the cucumbers. This is his first vegetables garden and so far it has been a very successful harvest, looks like next year he's
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A New Beginning
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STORY: Butterflies are so special to me. It’s a representation of a New Life after death. The death of the caterpillar hence a BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY
Family Tradition
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STORY: My 8 year old daughter and I started gardening together about three years ago. I knew nothing about gardens, but we needed a calm outside activity since she was due to have brain surgery and had some heavy restrictions on activities. The following year, after many surgery complications, we found ourselves gently putting in another garden. She loved sitting in the grass and digging holes, planting seeds, and picking vegetables when they were ready. This is our first “normal” summer
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