[Nfb-krafters-korner] Gardening and ornaments

Tue Mar 26 18:04:55 UTC 2013

Ask me on sale day and I have ornaments to sell.

Terry Powers

-----Original Message-----
From: Paulette Vickery [mailto:paulette at evickery.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 1:57 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Gardening

Hi Becky,

Wow! Another real blind gardener! I am so happy! Please tell your gardening friend with the list about me. Your fur tree sounds adorable! Why not get some plastic ornaments and some battery operated Bethlehem lights for the tree. If they don't have them on QVC, I think they will have plastic ornaments on HSN at Christmas time. What plants did you get from QVC? Just in case you can watch, Cottage Farms is on at 2 this afternoon.

Paulette

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Becky Frankeberger
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 5:26 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Gardening

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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