Do You Live to Garden? I Do!<\/p>\n
Hi! My name is Gina, and I absolutely love to garden! Every spare minute of my day is spent either looking at my garden or thinking about my garden. My husband once looked at me among my flowers and said, “Wow, you really live to garden!” and an idea (and website!) was born. Friends at work get a kick out of me complaining because the weather is nice, and I want to go “play in the dirt”! Gardening is so much a part of who I am.<\/p>\n
I come by my love of gardening honestly, both of my parents loved gardening. My earliest childhood memories are all connected to the garden. I can remember my mom in the flower garden, she had flowers beds all over our yard. In the summer our yard always had bunches of flowers where the butterflies and hummingbirds would congregate. My dad always grew vegetables in the summer, and I would follow along behind him trying to keep up as he walked up and down the rows of corn, green beans and tomatoes. The vegetables he grew tasted so good, and while I grow the same varieties, they never seem to match the flavor his vegetables had! It makes me feel so close to my parents when I am out in my gardens. Time may remove people from our lives, but we can still keep their memory near to us by doing things that they loved.<\/p>\n
If it has to do with gardening, I am there. I have flower gardens, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, a water garden and I have bird feeders around to attract the birds to my garden. I try to make my gardens look and feel like nature, a miniature “Garden of Eden” if you will. I feel that it is so important to stay connected to the earth, some may consider me a “flower child”, and that’s about the nicest thing that anyone could ever say of me. The flower children of the sixties were into conserving nature, and keeping their lifestyle simple. I believe in those things too. We only have one planet, we need to care for the earth and quit poisoning everything. I think about my Native American ancestors who lived here for centuries! Today there is hardly any sign that they were ever here, maybe a few mounds of earth in different places and some arrowheads. Then some of my other ancestors came over and just look at what our current civilization has accomplished in the 200 plus years that we’ve been here. We have clear cut the forests, and polluted our water to the point that we have to buy water that is fit to drink, our native trees are dying, it is like the whole ecosystem is on the blink. Does this bother any one else, the way it bothers me? I wonder…..<\/p>\n
I may not always do right by the environment, but I try my very best to garden organically, and to just let nature do her thing. By composting my yard, garden and kitchen waste, I can use the compost to improve my soil and make all my plants grow big and healthy, and healthy plants don’t get bothered by insects and disease as much as stressed out plants. Plus since I attract birds to my yard, they help me with bug control. If you look around and study nature, everything you need is already here, provided free of charge. Nature can take care of us and heal itself, we just need to get out of the way, and quit messing things up!<\/p>\n
Gardening to me is about staying connected to the earth, and with each other; and since I have no children of my own, there is no one for me to pass my love of gardening on to. I guess that is why I feel almost compelled to write and share what I’ve learned with others. I hope you will get some useful information from my writings and will come to a point in your life where you too can honestly say, “I live to garden!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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