Re: Is gardening too complicated?

**R* M* M* <r*@comcast.net>**

I keep following this thread and will bite my lip no more. The one element that seems missing is precisely "encouragement". If, as a garden writer, speaker, seed company owner I fail to provide the how to information with a large side dressing of encouragement then i'm probably not going to be of much help to the new gardener. It's not hard to explain there is quite a vast and satisfactory middle ground between double digging and "dig a hole and toss something into it". Let's steer new gardeners to include easy to grow good plants and good varieties. Success breeds success.
You're darned right I want some convenience gardening, otherwise I'd be doing my own grafting and never purchasing a transplant that could have been started from seed two months ago. Come into my garden and I'll show you how to make it easy, organic and an adventure. 

Rose Marie Nichols McGee
Nichols Garden Nursery
www.nicholsgardennursery.com
Co-author McGee & Stuckey's The Bountiful Container: Create container gardens of vegetables, herbs, fruits, & edible flowers

On Mar 15, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Peter Garnham wrote. :

> 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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