I Was Reminded of Grandma's Garden
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189957)
Boise, Idaho
August 14, 2023 9:53pm CST
I was reading @sallypup's post "I have treasure" and it reminded me of my grandmother's garden. I would usually spend my summers at my grandparent's home here in Boise after Mom and I moved to Pocatello with my stepdad and stepbrother. My grandma canned baked bread once a week and was the best cook.
So grandma's vegetable garden had carrots, potatoes, beans, corn, and other things I don't recall. Around the further side were blackberry bushes, raspberries, and black caps. Also were planted currant bushes, a pie cherry tree, concord grapes, a rhubarb bush, an apricot tree, and a prune tree. Boy! Would I get sick?
Thank you for the memory, Lenore!
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Aug 23
I loved to also but can't anymore. And no place really to do any gardening around here now anyway.
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Aug 23
@RubyHawk ......I don't either. I wish this complex had more to offer.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
16 Aug 23
@celticeagle I have no place for gardening here . Haven’t had for years.
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Aug 23
She sure was. I wish I had helped her more. She had a grape arbor in the back yard.
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@sallypup (69220)
• Centralia, Washington
16 Aug 23
@celticeagle Grape arbors are super in the hot summer time. I need to have a garden. It keeps me moving; gives me a destination and something to either groan over or laugh over.
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Aug 23
@sallypup .........There you have it. I enjoyed it when we had one at my ex's. I also had a nice herb garden just outside the back door which was just off the kitchen. I used to make wreaths from all the greenery.
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@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
15 Aug 23
Just like my grandmother's garden, also our own. We had peaches, though, not apricots.
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@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Aug 23
@celticeagle So were peaches, and plums, and apples, and pears, and all the small bush fruits... 
@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Aug 23
Sure is. I think of that place and her a lot.
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Aug 23
@RebeccasFarm .......What a memory.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
16 Aug 23
@celticeagle Wonderful to have that
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Aug 23
@just4him .......Poo. You should know by now to read into my responses cause I write too fast and then I don't proof read.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 Aug 23
@celticeagle Okay, but that's not how it reads. So, I wondered.
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
15 Aug 23
When I was little, I would go into my dad's garden and pick the green tomatoes off the vines. He was not happy.
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Aug 23
Have you ever had fried green tomatoes?
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Aug 23
@LindaOHio .......They are unbelieveable good.
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
16 Aug 23
@celticeagle No. I've never had them.
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Aug 23
She lived through the Depression. Always had something brewing on the back of the wood-burning stove for whoever might come around wanting a meal.
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