When I was a little girl I had a bright green thumb. I followed after my grandmother in her lovely garden extracting pesky weeds in the grass, picking and shelling gongo peas, plucking ripe ackee off the tree, and watering all the blooming plants like white orchids, french thyme.
Well many many years go by and my green thumb has shrunk, withered, and almost died. How that happened, well I'm not too sure? I just basically stopped helping in the garden. However as I mentioned in the
previous post I alot of the books I have been reading has me interested in gardening again. Well here's to a new start in living well and here to a start in my own little garden.
Gardening is a marvelous thing in of itself. Gardening allows me to be one with nature and help bring about life. From the seeds I am planting, watering, and nurturing a new life forms. Or I can look at it in another perspective; I save money by producing your own food :) The wonderful world of gardening allows me to grow my own expensive fruits like mango, pineapples, and avacados. Compared to the stores prices the mango tree we have is better, sweeter, and having matured a long while back its priceless. Depending on what foods tolerate and thrive in the South Florida climate I can grow tomatoes, lettuce, kale, blueberries and more.
My lovely grandmother has been wonderful in the assistance of the start of my own little garden. I began with the cuttings of a french thyme plant and golden pathos plant, the baby pulp of aloe vera, and the roots of an orchid. I am recoloring my green thumb by starting out with plants, herbs, and flowers rather than cultivating food. I say this because I really want a few plants in my bedroom. In the meantime I'll help with my grandmothers garden which is mainly food produce and eventually branch off on my own later :)
I'm over here hating because you can grow mangoes.
ReplyDeleteAww shucks...its that south Floridan climate. Everytime I forgetfully leave mango seeds in my compost little tiny mango trees start to rise. I've had to pull at least ten so far in the last two weeks.
DeleteI have an interest in gardening also. I should take your advice and start with plants instead of thinking that I can skip to growing food. Lol.
ReplyDeleteThat's wonderful gardening is a great hobby to have and very beneficial to yourself, others, and the planet. Yes, I thinks its best to start slowly with plants and then move on from there.
DeleteDo you think mango's would grow in Southern Louisiana? Can you or have you ever tried to grow coconuts?
ReplyDeleteThanks
Mangoes usually only grow in tropical climates so states like Florida, California and Hawaii. If you do plan to grow mangoes do attempt to grow them indoors or have a greenhouse for when winter comes. If you plant them outside and when winter rolls around your mango tree will not survive.
ReplyDeleteYes we have a coconut bearing tree. I personally did not plant the trees, my grandmother did.