Today ’s post is quite special since it comes from my untried sister . She ’s a hard - working female parent , married woman , and now nurseryman . I recently saw some of her beautiful gardening pictures and said , “ hey Steph – why do n’t you partake in your history ? ” She gracefully agreed to do so and I get laid her story will inspire those of you who are just jumping in to your own horticulture project . If she can do it with her busybodied life , you’re able to too !
Stephanie ’s beautiful garden in Delaware
Stephanie’s Story
The fact that I am writing my gardening story , is well … comical .
I scarcely consider myself a ‘ nurseryman . ”
But before I get into all of that …
My name is Stephanie Brock , I was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale , FL . I relocate to Southern Delaware after sustain conjoin in 2012 .
I have this pretty cool older brother who has always been into horticulture . He planted a desire in my heart to get into it myself when I had a little property of my own .
I had never experienced wintertime before moving up here , call me screwball but I love it .
Stephanie’s beautiful garden in Delaware
Something about it makes leap so sweet and the gardening even more exceptional .
near two years ago we bought our current home that has enough blank in the back for a small garden . I plunged into research on how to garden , I instantaneously became overwhelmed and almost speak myself out of it .
I ca n’t do this !
I ’m tucker !
I have two baby under two !
Blah , blah , blah .
or else of go forward to research , I decided to do what I do comfortably . Learn hands on and by just getting started . I run low to Lowes , grease one’s palms some dirt and industrial plant and dumbfound them in the ground – EASY !
tomato , peppers , cucumbers , cilantro , Citrullus vulgaris , and corn ( which failed … miserably ) .
I tried strawberry two years in a row with no veridical luck . We have broken up and I ’ve impress on from them .
On the other hand , my love apple , peppers and cucumbers did so well that I ended up apply away a fate of them because we could n’t corrode them all !
curtly after the garden took off ( well most of it ) I found out I was meaning with bit three … which stand for sickness for the next nine months . The garden got neglected , and finally turn into compost for this year !
Now I have three babies under three and a beautiful little garden that is full of what I love .
This twelvemonth it ’s green beans , two types of tomato , helianthus , peppers , and cucumbers . I also have two self - seed cucumber vine plants , two self - seed tomato plant plants and a watermelon plant that just bulge out up !
My next stair is to learn how to compost , I heardthere is a great book out that teaches you how to “ Compost Everything . ”After that I will bring some fruit trees .
But any garden is better than no garden . The more I get wind , the more the more addicted I get . It ’s like a drug … that makes me money ! Ha !
Get outside , and start planting !
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My Thoughts
Stephanie ’s story mirror a lot of our gardening experiences . Despite setbacks , she stuck with it and is now reap the benefit . Her children are discover to farm and wipe out their own backyard vegetables and despite the challenges of children and pregnancy , she did n’t give up .
Failed hemangioma simplex and missing corn are a part of life . You plant what do work and you move on . At some point in the future you could always revisit a crop that failed to carry for you and possibly you ’ll have better destiny … or maybe you wo n’t .
What you should never do is give up . If you had any idea how many plants I killed during the inquiry forTotally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening , you ’d be amazed . We prove a bunch of unlike tomatoes , we had pitiful go bad Flint River clavus , we had firing - ant - scourge white white potato … but at the other end of our years of gardening in both beach - sandy South Florida and the fell heat and foul freezing of North Florida , we love exactly what form and how we could literally haul in piles of nutrient , as the subtitle state . Reviewers have take in onto that as well :
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you may grow a garden .
If Stephanie can make it hap despite go in a novel climate with small children to care for , you could too . ( And , by the manner , are n’t my niece and nephew the darn cut kids ? )
Finally , I echo her windup command – get outside and start planting !
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