idealmike
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When I was young growing up, I had a fairly large garden. The best part of it was that it used to back out into a really large field and we'd spend many a summer holiday playing shooty bang bang or hide and seek and building dens and swings from the trees. We'd even have bonfire parties where all the local community would come and we'd cook jacket potatoes and bangers on the fire and let off fireworks. Great memories! But my old queen really used to love her gardening and would plant and tend rose bushes and things like that. And my dad planted a plum and pear tree and a goose bury bush which used to flower every year and we'd have these massive, delicious and juicy plums and pears and that, it was awesome.
And then when I got my first place, (a ground floor flat) I had my own small garden (although it was pattioed). But there was a small area at the back that was just basically mud that I planted some nice bushes and mini-trees and things in it and I planted and potted a lot of herbs as well like Mint, Parsley, Peppermint, Chives, Oregano and Coriander and the like. It was really nice in the summer and we'd always go out and cut a few sprigs off and have them in our salads and that. Plus the smell was really nice but we did used to get a lot of bugs and bees and things!!
That was my first taste for gardening and I know it has a lot of stigma attached to it in that some people think it's a woman's job but that's not true! Gardening isn't just for women only. And anyone can enjoy doing it. It gets you outside, in the fresh air, in the sun and it can be very rewarding as well when all your hard work comes to fruit!
I only have a small garden right now and it's all pattioed. But one day I'm hoping to get out there, dig up the slabs and lay down some nice turf and maybe plant some fruit trees and herbs and things like that again. It's just so relaxing doing a spot of gardening and it can be very rewarding later on when it's all growing and looking great.
What about you? Do you like gardening? Are you a bit of a green thumb!? 
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Lynne
Well I can mow quite nicely. I am also quite a goer with a chainsaw. Not in a crazy ass way, but I can certainly chop down a tree!
But back to gardening. I LOVE it. There is just nothing better than going outside and getting all dirty digging in the garden. Growing up my parents had a small holding and we had a massive veggie garden. We grew so many things, not to sell but for ourselves. Tomatoes, strawberries, guavas, lemons, mielies (damn what you call it? Corn?), potatoes... you name it we had our own.
Now my parents have gone bigger, from that 2 acres small holding to a 350 hectare farm. I guess the gardening gene is in me?
We rent now so I don't want to mess around with the owners garden, plus I don't want to put a whole stack of work in and then have to leave it behind. It is not about the work, it is that I will struggle to leave it.
So yes I have some pots around our stoep (verander? porch?) and I have cherry tomatoes, origanum, rosemary, sweet basil, coriander and parsley growing. It is not much but it is mine. I dream about the day we buy our own home and I can plant them in our own garden! Oh my gosh, how can gardening be just a woman's job? I suppose mowing the lawn would be the man's job then? LOL Well I can mow quite nicely. I am also quite a goer with a chainsaw. Not in a crazy ass way, but I can certainly chop down a tree! But back to gardening. I LOVE it. There is just nothing better than going outside and getting all dirty digging in the garden. Growing up my parents had a small holding and we had a massive veggie garden. We grew so many things, not to sell but for ourselves. Tomatoes, strawberries, guavas, lemons, mielies (damn what you call it? Corn?), potatoes... you name it we had our own. Now my parents have gone bigger, from that 2 acres small holding to a 350 hectare farm. I guess the gardening gene is in me? We rent now so I don't want to mess around with the owners garden, plus I don't want to put a whole stack of work in and then have to leave it behind. It is not about the work, it is that I will struggle to leave it. So yes I have some pots around our stoep (verander? porch?) and I have cherry tomatoes, origanum, rosemary, sweet basil, coriander and parsley growing. It is not much but it is mine. I dream about the day we buy our own home and I can plant them in our own garden!
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