Re: Is gardening too complicated?

**"* <d*@comcast.net>**

Wow! That's really harsh! I think that if we're to grow the next generation of gardeners, we need to cultivate them. They don't have the advantage that we did, of seeing our predecessors having success. We've pretty much lost a generation that didn't have any examples to follow, and who don't know the joys of trials, success and failures. 

d

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Garnham" <editor@hamptons.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 2:35 PM
Subject: [GWL] Is gardening too complicated?

>I see no harm in acquainting newbies with the idea that gardening is NOT just "dig a hole and toss something into it." People who want everything to be easy, simple, requiring no effort at all . . . sorry, they should not be encouraged. There is satisfaction to be had from learning how to do something right and seeing (tasting!) the results of your efforts. You want convenience foods, convenience gardening, easy everything? Get out of my garden. You don't belong.
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