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Post by daylilydude on Nov 25, 2017 5:32:05 GMT -5
Have you gone to check out a family or neighbors garden and start to tell them how you do it or do you just listen and soak up all their gardening wisdom?
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Post by paulf on Nov 25, 2017 10:24:32 GMT -5
I just listen and think to myself that's not the way I would do it.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Nov 25, 2017 12:11:34 GMT -5
There's usually something to learn from other people's gardens. Sometimes like paulf said, what you learn is how *not* to do things. But if they are having some success with gardening, I find that most of the time there are at least a few tidbits of information worth picking up.
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Post by meandtk on Nov 25, 2017 12:33:47 GMT -5
I have more to learn than I have to share. I also know very few who garden. There used to be a time when everyone around had a garden, it seemed. That time is no more. With the ones who do garden, I usually inquire what they do about this or that. They usually ask if I have anything unusual, because they know I like to try different things.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Nov 25, 2017 13:27:58 GMT -5
I'm also another that knows very few gardeners. Except my customers, that I deliver mail to! I do talk to many of them about the gardens, but I really haven't learned much from them. I have gotten a few SIP converts, however!
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Post by spike on Nov 25, 2017 14:44:42 GMT -5
The last time I mucked about in anyone elses garden it went poorly for me. My friend had hurt her leg and needed help with "some" weeds. HA she had so many weeds you couldn't see the plants. So I spent the day out there tilling and weeding and following her directions (some I didn't agree with but not my garden). Worked out there for a good 6 hours as she pointed out weeds. At the end, she was thrilled, the garden was beautiful and I was beat. I went back to visit her 2 weeks later. She was fine but the weeds were all back. She had done nothing. Made me want to cry. So nope I stay in my own garden now.
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Post by aqua on Nov 25, 2017 17:00:50 GMT -5
I don't know anyone else who gardens. ![:-[](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/a0BmArdGJJ6r1UvCOp0g.png)
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Post by september on Nov 25, 2017 20:11:02 GMT -5
I don't give gardening advice unless I am asked. There is more than one way to garden and some people have family or personal traditions of practices that they strongly feel work for them. Not for me to interfere.
I love looking at other people's garden, both flowers and veggies, and there is usually something I can enjoy or learn from - even if as Laura and Paul said it's how NOT to do something.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Nov 27, 2017 11:05:44 GMT -5
Oh, spike, that would have steamed me, too!
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Post by ladymarmalade on Nov 27, 2017 11:42:56 GMT -5
Oh, I love to chat gardens, and will offer advice if it is asked for. I usually listen as well, and when the things the other gardener is saying is something that doesn't jive with me, I just nod my head and wish them success.
I know many people who garden, but not many who are as passionate as I am. I also have a lot more interaction with gardeners because of my community garden plot. It's really interesting to chat with people who have gardened for years, but still don't seem to really know much about it. Still, sometimes I will glean a nugget of useful information.
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Post by guruofgardens on Dec 10, 2017 21:11:54 GMT -5
I'm in a community garden so I can peruse around everyone's space. I don't give advice unless asked, but beware - I may dominate the conversation to gardening.
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