Years experience in gardening?

[dld]

How many years do you have gardening? Me, myself have about 25 years, give or take.

[jcm05]

About 15 roughly, but I spent time 30 years ago helping my grandmother root cuttings in her greenhouse on Long Island.

[timothyt]

Hey Mulio,
So did you ever find or develop one?

As for the original question....such a simple question, such a hard answer! I've been in the garden for 40 years, but me thinks that I actually have 1 year 35 times and only 5 years actually learning! ;D

T

[darthslater]

I started when I was about 8or9 helping my dad, we always had tomatoes and plenty of them. I can remember putting all the kitchen scraps out there, not meat but bones and everything else. So to answer the question about 43 years.

Darth

[giardiniere]

I started helping my dad in the garden when I was young.. probably about 1968-69. I grew my own garden for the first time in 1980. I've grown a garden each year since, except for last summer. I did have a few tomatoes and herbs, but due to my separation, I didn't have my usual gardening spot.

[landarc]

I grew up in agriculture, we were around plants and had gardens for as long as I can remember. We ate from our garden for most of our spring through fall staples.

[camochef]

I almost hate answering this. My first year gardening was 1957 when my step-dad had me weeding his rather large garden everyday. By 1958, I graduated to becoming our version of a roto-tiller. only I used a gaden fork to turn everything over and a rake to break up the clods, and they had best be broken up well.
We would work together to string out lines and plant the different veggies and once they were in the garden it fell back on me to keep it weeded, and watered, although he did the pickin' when things got ripe. So over the years I missed a few here and there... like spending a couple years in the army, and living in a garden apartment when Mrs Camo and I first got married. But I figure I made up for those losses by managing a farm of about 400 acres for 4 years and working year round on a large fruit farm for a few years.
So I'll say 52 years gardening with a years apprenticeship beforehand! But my first little garden of my own, (tomatoes) outside of my step-dad's large one was in 1958.
Camo

[nolika]

I guess I'm the youngest here, in gardening I mean

We lived in a flat and had no land till I was 18, then my family moved to a house with a Garden, but my father only wanted a lawn, bushes and flowers, no veggies. So I had to 'steal' some land on the edge of our parcel year after year to create a small (12 square meters) vegetable Garden. Then he said it was enough

Now that I have a baby I wish to expand even more, so I can grow good food for him. So this year I'm expanding a bit more, since my father had a back surgery and can't take care of his lawn any more. I told him, I'd take care of if he gave me a bit more space for veggies in return. Jeepiii...

I mainly grow omatoes, but love all other veggies too.
All in all, my gardening goes back a little less then 10 years

[jcm05]

Great thread! Keep it coming!

[mawkhawk]

Uuh, well , both of my parents grew up on farms (in Twining and Turner, for all you Michiganders) and then I helped garden as a kid. But not counting all of that, I've been gardening myself as an adult for about 18 years. Most of my aunts (3) and uncles (7) on my mother's side lived and died farmers.

[stratcat]

Helped my parents in the garden back in 1956 picking a little corn and carrying the bucket in. Helped cut green beans for canning. I got a kick out of my Great-Grandma's farm and my Grandparent's farm.

I count 1979, when I got my house, as the beginning of the gardening experience.

Feb 26, 2010 15:26:42 GMT -5 mawkhawk said:

both of my parents grew up on farms (in Twining and Turner, for all you Michiganders).

Yeah, those towns are in my county 15-20 minutes away.

[spudleafwillie]

Adam and myself planted the Garden of Eden way back when.

Ive been "diggin in de dirt" since age 8 so that makes 64 years of experience for me !!

[dld]

Dang spud, that makes you almost as old as dirt?

[spudleafwillie]

i just ran a total of the years of gardening experience. thru my name, spudleafwillie we have 397 years of gardening experience between all who responded so far!!!

Congrats to all you dirty fingernailed persons !!!! woo-hoooo !!

[swampr]

Over 30 years of growing tomatoes here. I started with punch and grow yellow pears, and remember using the green ones at the end of the season to make tasty pickled tomatoes in a stone crock.