80’s Flower Child
March 19, 2008 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Lifestyles Network
This month’s Lifestyles b5media post theme is the 80’s. I grew up in the 80’s so it’s one of my favorite decades. Some of my favorite movies and TV shows are from the 80’s. I have the big hair naturally, so I fit right in.
I have some great gardening memories from the 80’s. My dad has always had a big garden, and I enjoyed picking tomatoes, apples, and strawberries and eating them right in the garden. Of course I wasn’t always happy about planting, hoeing or weeding back then.
I loved sitting out in the flower garden, sometimes digging roads or building towns around the clumps of flowers. I had my own make believe world in the borders around our house. I remember picking Forsythia in the early spring, and mums in the fall.
My dad usually gardened without chemical fertilizers, or pesticides even back then . The only chemical pesticide I remember him using was 7 Dust, he sprinkled it on his melon plants when he saw beetles. He used organic fertilizers, and natural controls for other garden pests.
He taught me much of what I know about gardening today. He still plants a large garden. I admire his garden, because he never has as many weeds as I seem to. This is a photo of his garden from last summer.
What was your favorite thing about the 80’s?
I don’t have that many gardening related memories of the ’80s, but it was a time that brings back great memories just the same. My daughters were tiny, we lived in a cute, cottage style house and I had a small, compact garden. It was a happy time.
Coincidentally, I just posted about my father’s gardens.