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Re: Speech By George Ball
As a company that sells seeds for all kinds of plants, in the last
year or so we've seen an upswing of interest in our food varieties,
both vegetables and "unusual edibles" This tendency has not been
as noticeable as those at the millennium when people were stockpiling
seeds for foods or after 9-11, however it is certainly a trend in our
orders.
Along with those orders, we've received requests for information on
kitchen or "potager" gardens, in which foods, flowers and herbs co-
mingle - hopefully peacefully and productively.
Has anyone else had this experience?
Mayo Underwood
On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Carolyn Ulrich wrote:
> Regarding your comment on writing less about vegetables....I've been
> wondering of late if a concern for pesticide-free food might inspire
> people to return to vegetable gardening. Or will it just drive them
> to the farmers' market and the organic section of the supermarket?
> Americans in general aren't poor these days but they are short of
> time, so maybe they'll just take the route of paying a little more
> for food safety or join a CSA, but maybe there's an audience out
> there waiting to be motivated?
> Carolyn Ulrich
> On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Duane Campbell wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@usol.com>
>> To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
>>
>> Nancy and I have chatted over the topic of "the state of
>>> gardening in the U.S." and generally concede that the industry is on
>>> a downswing and gardening is on a downswing.
>>
>> My observation over the last decade has been quite the opposite.
>> For over
>> ten years I judged a Country Garden Contest, which involved
>> spending a week
>> in July traveling around several rural counties from dawn to dusk in
>> northern Pennsylvania in July. The gardens we judged changed little
>> over the
>> period. They were done by avid gardeners, and they were good at the
>> beginning and at the end. What changed dramatically, year by year,
>> were the
>> thousands of more casual gardens we drove by in our wandering. In the
>> beginning we would drive for miles and see little more than a line
>> of sun
>> baked hostas down the front walk. By the end we were seeing perhaps
>> one
>> house in ten where there had been real effort made in ornamental
>> gardening,
>> often with remarkable taste and design sense. They were small,
>> compared to
>> the generally larger gardens we were judging, but they showed real
>> gardening
>> rather than sticking some plants in the ground.
>>
>>
>> My readers run the gamut from the horticulturally crazed to those
>> who think
>> that maybe some day they'd like to put some plants in the ground,
>> and I keep
>> this range in mind whenever I write. I know that this could be the
>> year that
>> a few of them rip out the hostas and put an island bed on the
>> corner. While
>> the rest of you were attending the flower show, I was giving a
>> talk at
>> Longwood Gardens. It drew nearly 150 people, most in their middle
>> years, and
>> from the questions I could tell that most were just getting their
>> feet wet,
>> or muddy, and were eager for information. Sure, our job as garden
>> writers is
>> changing. I'm writing less about vegetables and marigolds and more
>> about
>> tropicals and landscaping. On the other hand, our job hasn't
>> changed a bit.
>> It is still to get the casual gardener enthused.
>>
>> D
>>
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