[Nfb-krafters-korner] Gardening

[Ramona Walhof]

Paulette, are you going to put most of that outside?  I hope you have a big 
yard.

Ramona
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paulette Vickery" <paulette at evickery.com>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 2:54 PM
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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