[Nfb-krafters-korner] Gardening

[Becky Frankeberger]

Paulette, adopt me please please.  I know a gal who indeed has a list for
blind gardeners.  I will put the info on this list when I find her again.
She is a very nice gal from Canada.  I love growing things in pots.  It just
isn't something I have done real lately.  The last thing I grew was a fur
tree.  You know you are supposed to transfer them or the top splits into
three branches, grown.  A fur split this way is unsafe when it gets to an
adult height.  We out here call them widow makers.  So my little tree will
stay where it is for now.  But later I will probably plant it somewhere way
out of the way so it won't hurt anyone. But it is so full and pretty.  I
keep wanting to decorate it for Christmas, out doors that is, smile.   This
little tree was only four inches tall when I found it growing in a stray pot
I forgot about.  My husband wanted to throw it away, but I babied it and it
is now four or four and a half feet tall and lush.  It is in a planter box
on wheels, smile.   

I bought a couple of plants from QVC who grew beautifully. Enjoy your new
garden of delights.

Becky and guide dog Jake sniffing the signs of spring  
-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Paulette Vickery
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 1:54 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Gardening

Hi all,

I've got the gardening bug really bad. I just decided that puttering around
in the soil in containers might be fun. So, I purchased a strawberry plant
growing kit. It has 20 plants, potting soil and a stoneware pot with 6
openings for the plants to come out of while growing. That would be alright,
but I also am a QVC devotey and over the last little while I ordered a Myer
lemon tree for my husband's birthday, a set of 2 dwarf banana trees that
have edible fruit, a peony bush, a set of 9 reblooming day lilies, a set of
reblooming tiger lilies, a set of reblooming not Gerber daisies, a set of 2
baby lilac bushes, a set of 8 begonias and a set of 3 butterfly bushes. Most
of these things will be in containers. My husband has 36 tiny lettuce plants
growing in a plastic green house on wheels on the sun porch and we have an
amaryllis also growing on our sun porch. So, after all of that, I think that
my latest hobby is learning the craft of gardening. I don't know if
gardening is considered a craft at all, but does anyone teach a class in
gardening for the blind, or does anyone know of a listserv for blind
gardeners?

Paulette


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