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woodspirit1 Lake Toxaway, NC(Zone 7a) Oct 10, 2002

I loved Dave's question in the voting booth, "Who is/was your gardening mentor?" Why don't we all tell about our gardening mentor......?
Mine was an aunt who lived on Wrightsville Beach, NC. She had a small beach lot but still had great flowers and a perfect tiny lawn. Wrightsville Beach is only about 2 blocks wide and 2 miles long. Everytime there was a hurricane, most everything was killed off by the salt water. How she ever persevered, I'll never know.

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sukytawdry Havertown, PA(Zone 6a) Oct 10, 2002

My grandfather was my gardening mentor. He grew the most beautiful vegetables and cooked them to just-picked perfection. Not an inch of space went to waste in his tiny back yard. Years after he died I read the book Square Foot Gardening, and I thought, that's how my PopPop gardened for 50 years.

My grandfather's pride and joy were his 2 fig trees, which are now over 70 years old and still lovingly tended by my uncle. He covers them with burlap in the fall and fusses over every bud, just like Pop Pop always did. From my PopPop, I learned that it's hard work growing figs in Pennsylvania, but well worth the effort. That's a lesson that goes way beyond gardening.

suky

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