As the Garden Grows

I grew up in Ottawa, the Capital of Canada, and my parents always had both flower and vegetable gardens at our home in the city, and two big gardens up at our cottage. Our cottage area was old farmland that had been owned by my mothers family.

So you can imagine how much practice I had as a child - weeding, watering, making compost, planting seeds and seedlings, tending to plants and harvesting the vegetables each fall.

Gardening was a way of life I suppose. It was a small part of my chores and other than enjoying a few flowers here and there I really didn't think much of it, or really how lucky I was to grow up with such fresh food to eat and lovely flowers around all the time. As I said it was a way of life, it was normal.

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