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I married young and soon became busy with my job as Mom. Of course, this didn’t happen the way I had expected it to. After snatching a few of the scrumptious morsels off the vine, I would sit with my precious stash, popping them into my mouth one by one, and imagine myself with a garden one day just like Grandpa’s. At the time, I didn’t think anyone else could grow the sweet berries quite the way that Grandpa did. What I remember most was Grandpa’s patio garden, full of juicy, ready-for-the-picking strawberries during spring. Growing plants and becoming successful at it, for me, came forth simply through the experience of trial and error, at times more error than anything else.Īs a child, I used to get excited about our trips to visit my grandparents.
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Gardening, like many things in life, is merely a developed skill and nearly everything I know about gardening, I taught myself.
#Green thumbs up how to#
In fact, all alleged green-thumb gardeners, myself included, possess little more than the ability to read and follow instructions, or in the very least, we know how to experiment. Anyone can stick a plant in the ground and get it to grow with the right conditions. When it comes to growing plants, there are no inherent talents, no divine gift for gardening, and no green thumb. Green thumb gardening is just that– a myth, at least as I see it. So, is the green thumb a myth? Keep reading to find out. Of course, little did I know then that a gift for gardening is not something you’re born with like a birthmark or webbed toes. I had no clue where to start after all, aren’t you supposed to be born with a green thumb or something? Heck, I considered myself blessed if I could actually keep a houseplant living for more than a week. A garden? The thought hadn’t even crossed my mind.