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Do You Still Use Old-Fashioned Gardening Skills?
Being retired you have lots of time to learn new skills.
My English grandmother had a green thumb. After living in the prairies for many years, she moved to the coast where the climate was much more temperate. She and grandpa moved to a small town near the Canadian/US border called White Rock. Named after a huge white boulder that was on the beach.
She named her garden English Pride. She had someone engrave this on a wooden plaque and put it at the entrance gate to her garden. She could put anything in her garden at any place and it would grow.
Well, I have been retired for two and a half years and my thumb is not green yet. I moved to within a couple of miles of White Rock but no gardening skills occurred.
The funny thing is that I love gardens. I love pictures of gardens, love to walk through gardens, read how to garden, and watch gardening shows. I even love to listen to gardening shows on the radio. I just don’t like putting my hands in the soil and pulling weeds.
I used to work with people that would say they couldn’t wait to go home and get their hands in the soil. They said it was so relaxing. I thought it was just one more thing on my to-do list
