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This is just a point of curiosity for me. What is your story?
Something you were taught by your parents, just part of gardening or did you have a disastrous garden spot?
Here is my story:
My parents had a garden most years sometimes not, but my involvement in gardening in my early years was that of weed puller...
Consequently after I moved from my parents and had purchased my own home I decided that I was not going to have a garden because all I would do is pull weeds, right?
Fast forward ah, well, a few years. My beautiful wife was struggling with our (her) garden. My involvement in gardening was that of running a tiller, and occasionally yeah thats right - weed puller.
After a few years of poor yields from our garden and listening to her become more and more discouraged, I wanted to help. I didn't know how or where to start.
You must understand I'm a bookworm who will research anything to death. So I started performing Internet searches on Gardening to see what I could find on the subject. I just love the Internet, there is more information there that can be absorbed.
I read about many subject areas of gardening and finally realized that our "garden soil" was more like concrete than garden soil!
I purchased a few books on gardening, soil and composting. I completely immersed myself in gardening related reading from that spring until the next planting season.
By now I'm armed with some compost that I had made from the previous year, plans of the "perfect" garden and some concrete in which to plant our bounty...
Actually I used a double digging technique and loads of compost, that fall, in about a third of the garden plot. I was amazed at the tilth and at how soft the soil was at the end of the year. You could actually poke your finger in the soil. Before you would break a finger nail had you tried that!
Part of the plan of course included what I read about seed starting, heirlooms and companion planting.
So, now its spring. I watched the soil for the perfect time to work it. I didn't want it to turn to concrete again. When the time was right I started building raised rows. I was still amazed at how crumbly and soft the soil was that spring.
That year the soil did and excellent job of providing an enormous, beautiful garden with many treats for our family.
Now it really is "our" garden. I'm a true believer that composting is a necessity and am fully involved in the planing of what we plant, to where and how its planted and I no longer mind becoming a weed puller on occasion.
My name is William and I am a Composter.
I just had to edit my sig, since I love the way your all signing. ;)
This message was edited Jan 25, 2009 8:14 PM
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