In article , Rick McGreal
writes
Kay Easton wrote in
:

I started with cacti too, my first ones placed in my bedroom window by
my mother when I was about 6 .. by 10 I was an enthusiastic collector.

I'm not an enthusiast...But I do enjoy collecting the ones I like....
I have about 20 cacti spread about the house now....

Keep it like that! the rot sets in when you buy a greenhouse for them
;-)
We started by an embargo on buying new plants, and growing them from
seed only. That worked for a few years - but then the seedlings started
getting larger, and instead of one of each species we now had several!

But they do flower well in the greenhouse.

Plus all my other plants....

I forget about houseplants. They droop :-(


In teenage years I started to help her more and more around the garden
and learnt the basics of veg and pruning.

I wish I had payed attetion to what my parents had said.....

Well, I think everyone feels that! Maybe not about gardening but about
something!
There's a quote on the lines of 'when I was 20 I was amazed at how
little my father knew. When I was 30 I was amazed at how much he had
learnt in the meantime' ;-)


But real gardening didn't start till I had my own garden, at 21.

I just started when I moved here last July

Happy gardening! It gets better and better, the more you do.


--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm