Hello, and as you are reading this, thank you for your interest in my newest addition to hobbies – gardening! I must be frank, I claim no large quantity of experience or knowledge in the large world of gardening, as I am a newbie at it. I’ve spent about 24 years of my life watching my mom tend to her gardens, wondering how on earth she made a garden so splendid, but other than helping to weed the gardens occasionally, took no particular interest in the hobby. After my dad re-married, my step-mom also provided me with a good bit of knowledge on the ways of landscape gardening (she is on the Manchester CT Flower club council).
It was really, not until January 2012, after having purchased a house with a 2 acre lot with an already in place landscape filled with gardens, that I began to appreciate all I had seen my mom and step-mom do. Having the new responsibilities of owning a house, a business that required a properly tended to landscape and ample amounts of work in the new gardens to do, I gained much knowledge from all the hard work of maintaining the gardens.
By January, I had begun to have a good grasp of gardening and decided to buy a dozen different seed packets from the hardware store and try growing them inside during the winter. With a $5 mini greenhouse from the hardware store, a bag of peat pods and a Sunbox Light, my own person realm of seed germination and plant horticulture exploded!