Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Mid-Atlantic Roll Call, 1 by Buttoneer

Buttoneer wrote:
Name: Buttoneer (Judy Showers)

Location: Carlisle, PA

Family: a DH (Bob) of 29 years, 2 stepkids, the oldest in Carlisle, PA & the youngest in Virginia, 2 grandkids and 2 great-grands, also our "kid" Fritzie II, a 7-year-old rat terrier who loves us both but gets so jealous when we hug & kiss. LOL.

Employment: Currently Ahold Financial Service (who owns Giant of Carlisle, Giant of Landover, and Stop & Shop Food Chains. But I will be retiring at the end of this year & looking forward to be able to spend more time with my family & my plants.

Gardening Level: Intermediate (outdoor gardening) Expert: (tropical) DH built me a 10 X 22' greenhouse. I know many many plants by their scientific names because when you are trading seeds with people from other countries, they go by the scientific name & not the common name because their common names are different than our common names. I am not a master gardener but hopefully in 2009, I can take the course & become one, something I never was able to do when working.

Gardening Focus: To scatter as many different flowering plant seeds as possible and make the area around our house look full & colorful. I attend as many plant sales & swaps as I can during the month of May and pick up some really neat & cheaply-priced plants to put in the garden. I also like experimenting with plants from other areas of our country and put tropical potted plants in the garden for the spring-summer-fall and in the greenhouse for the winter. I enjoy starting plants from seeds & am experimenting right now with polymer crystals to see how good they are at starting seeds. My DH built us a pond in front of the house and we love having it there, but it takes a lot of maintainance because it is so large: 11 X 7'. We are hoping to once again put in a large vegetable garden the way we used to when we were younger & more limber. I hope to do some canning & a lot more cooking, something I was only able to do on Sundays, so I have a lot to look forward to and will probably be busier than I was when I was working.

Nice to meet all you "grand" gardening guys & gals & looking forward to meeting you in the near future. p.s. It would be neat to see what everybody looks like.

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