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myLot reputation of 99/100. sweetdesign (2193)   ranked 16 out of 1,674 in gardening 4 years ago

My daughter is starting to love gardening. It has taken awhile and she is 18 years old. She likes getting our own homegrown veggies and saving money on the grocery bill. She also loves to can! She loves making relishes and pickles and making jams too. I am very proud of her! She loves canning the veggies we get from the garden and those we get from the farmers market as well. She loves harvesting the veggies and loves harvesting fresh herbs from the garden and the aerogarden.

 

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drannhh (9930) response was accepted on 9/8/2008.
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1. myLot reputation of 96/100. drannhh (9930)   ranked 22 out of 1,674 in gardening   4 years ago

I would be proud of her, too. Sounds like you raised her well. I hear, though, that she also loves to go to the mall. That is healthy, too! Say, has she joined myLot yet? Is she on my friend list? Did you remember to turn notify on for me on your friend's list yet. I am about to go start a discussion, so I guess I will find out, lol.


myLot reputation of 99/100. sweetdesign (2193)   ranked 16 out of 1,674 in gardening  4 years ago

I think I turned the notify on I shall have to check that lol. Yes she has joined mylot her name here is spikelives.


myLot reputation of 99/100. sweetdesign (2193)   ranked 16 out of 1,674 in gardening  4 years ago

Yep notify is on!


myLot reputation of 96/100. drannhh (9930)   ranked 22 out of 1,674 in gardening  4 years ago

Too cool!

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2. myLot reputation of 93/100. xXxMikesWifeyxXx (2035)   ranked 655 out of 1,674 in gardening   4 years ago

That is pretty vool,Now yall have somthing you can do together to spend time with each other and not have to spend money while doing it:)

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3. myLot reputation of 94/100. skywolfcel (5050)   4 years ago


oh it is fine and i will say good if a kid like gardening that means the kis is hard working an in the future she will one of the successful

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4. myLot reputation of 98/100. Anne18 (4161)   ranked 40 out of 1,674 in gardening   4 years ago

Yes, my children like to be in the garden and they each have a little plot of garden for them to do what they wish with.
One year my son made a little pond with some left over sheeting and used an old bath rack for a bridge, he planted the bath rack up with plants.
My little girl likes to plant flowers in hers.
They like to go to the garden centre to choose plants for there gardens.
They aslo like to help me grow the veggies in the garden and do the watering


myLot reputation of 99/100. sweetdesign (2193)   ranked 16 out of 1,674 in gardening  4 years ago

WOW perhaps your son will be an engineer someday lol. He has a great imagination and very smart thinking with that bridge!

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5. myLot reputation of 96/100. biggerb (1474)   ranked 182 out of 1,674 in gardening   4 years ago

I remember when my son was very young say 4 years or so he would always tag along with me while I do my gardening.If someone comes over i would show them around the garden and they would ask the names of the different plants and I used to tell them, this chap as a kid picked up all the names.He used love pottering around the place.He loved harvesting the vegetables.Then when he grew up I never found him to be very interested.Now he is 24 and is away working when he comes home I find always in the garden taking photographs to show his friends.He keeps admiring the garden.I hope he takes to gardening as much as my husband and I do.Its such a wonderful hobby that can relax you totally.

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6. myLot reputation of 98/100. byfaithonly (6284)   ranked 17 out of 1,674 in gardening   4 years ago

I wish I had your daughter - mine wants nothing to do with the garden and is a total idiot where anything connected with the earth is. She about died the other day when I handed her a bag and told her she could pick up the piles of corn I had laid at the ends of the rows for her to take home. Now my oldest son, 32, has some interest and did even when he was young and although he's never gone all out with a garden once he got his own home he most every year planted one or two tomato plants and raved when he would get his first tomato. When he was younger he had his own garden spot - no one else was allowed in his garden but he would share his produce with us. Radishes, radishes, radishes - that was all he planted :)

Now, my one granddaughter has been helping Grandma in the garden and she gave herself the nickname 'Garden Girl' and is learning even though she's only 3.


myLot reputation of 99/100. sweetdesign (2193)   ranked 16 out of 1,674 in gardening  4 years ago

that is funny about your daughter! I will admit that when I was younger I was sometimes resentful of the garden cause we had no choice but to help in our garden and in my grandparents garden both of which were HUGE! Most of the time I loved it though. I am loving it even more as an adult and my daughter is starting to love it also.
Your sweet little granddaughter is precious.

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7. myLot reputation of 98/100. Ruthep (7334)   ranked 250 out of 1,674 in gardening   4 years ago

I think so. Gwen likes watching the seeds sprout. She used to have her very own garden.
She has gotten to the age where she is not wanting to hlp so much but she will on occasion, pull weeds.

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8. myLot reputation of 86/100. laglen (7665)   ranked 36 out of 1,674 in gardening   4 years ago

My daughter is 14, she isn't real thrilled with gardening. I hope watching us will help her later. There are so many people that can not grow their own food. I just wnt to make sure she can if she has to.


myLot reputation of 99/100. sweetdesign (2193)   ranked 16 out of 1,674 in gardening  4 years ago

Well maybe when she is older she will show an interest in it. Atleast she is seeing you and you are showing her what to do.

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