Beginner Gardening: When did you start gardening?, 1 by barbur

barbur wrote:
Liz, I do hope you find a way to continue gardening even if its not in the same way as you have in the past. What good memories you have to enjoy. You made me think of my grandaughter who is 28 months old has been enjoying gardening for about 6 months! She follows me everywhere I go and tries to do everything I do, even copying every position that I stand when I'm gardening. I didn't realize that when I'm gardening I usually stand with one foot on the lawn and the other in the flower bed till she started doing the same thing. One day I wasn't in the "correct" position and she said "Mamaw put your foot here" indicating that I should put one foot in the flower bed like she was doing. Her favorite thing to do is watering, I remember one day I was potting some plants and she wanted to "help." So, to distract her I turned the water sprayer barely on and she "watered" everything in site including herself and me. I won't ever forget the site of the sun shining on the mist of water that was like a dew on the ringlets of her hair. I hope some day she will be participating in a DG forum and telling how it was that she began gardening.