[Nfb-krafters-korner] Gardening

[Paulette Vickery]

Thanks, Barb. I am looking forward to what you can find.

Paulette 

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From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Barb Roland
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 6:26 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Gardening

Paulette, I'm an avid gardener also, just not sure how much I'm going to do
this year yet. I do know and have taken that Hadley School for the Blind has
a course on container gardening that I enjoyed.
I'll check around for some other info for  you.
Barb
----- 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 3:54 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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