More on gardening adventures

[cschick]

The weather around here has been teasing us recently. 80 degree days in April are not necessarily good. If May is too hot, the cool weather plants aren't going to do well, and it's not going to gain me much because I still can't put out the more picky plants without risking them (since there's still too high a chance of frost then

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[bardsmaid]

I have to laugh when I hear people say things like young kids' attention spans for such things as gardening is limited--he's the one checking on our seedlings each day and telling me what's growing and what's dry, and he's the one trying to figure out exactly what we're going to do with everything.

It all depends on the child. Annie could identify most exotic sports cars by age 3; Aaron, on the other hand, knew all kinds of plants by that age and would spend hours in my dad's glass house, watching him graft camellias. He's still drawn to gardening; it's in his bones.

[cschick]

Yeah, I guess that I've always had some sort of fascination with growing vegetables. My mom has always been a gardener who focused on flowers, not veggies. I think I was seven when I dug out my first garden bed for veggies (without her permission and smack in the middle of the backyard, btw).

She does these wonderful display pots full of annuals all around her house and has bed after bed that she fills with annuals, and I've never really quite understood. They all die at the end of the summer without doing much of anything! ;) My teenaged veggie garden is currently a massive wildflower bed.