07-10-2015, 09:28 AM
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Re: Losing gardening skills
Originally Posted by Myth and Magic
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Thank you Meg. Perhaps in winter I will stuff my woolly 'at with herbs and the heat from my 'ead will make me smell all nice 
07-10-2015, 10:25 AM
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Re: Losing gardening skills
Originally Posted by Cass
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I have a lovely garden and would love to grow my own veg ..However due to neighbourhood cats (a multitude) who use local gardens as toilets my garden is gravel with a few plants.I know this doesnt explain everything but maybe a lot of people who would grow things are put off by it.
We used to have an allotment but don't have time or strength for it these days, also the queues for one means Grace may be grown up before we got lucky and got one.
Her new school has a gardening club sadly end of last term vandals ruined it, they are replanting next season but it doesn't give much hope if cats and people can't allow kids to grow and learn about food.
21-10-2015, 05:04 PM
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I think first hand knowledge of garden is dying out, the tendency of youth today to rely on having knowledge and information available at their finger tips on the Internet instead of cultivating practical knowledge and understanding.They don't spend as much time in the garden as we used to.
21-10-2015, 05:12 PM
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Re: Losing gardening skills
Originally Posted by JonV6
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I think first hand knowledge of garden is dying out, the tendency of youth today to rely on having knowledge and information available at their finger tips on the Internet instead of cultivating practical knowledge and understanding.They don't spend as much time in the garden as we used to.
21-10-2015, 05:48 PM
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Re: Losing gardening skills
Originally Posted by Advantage Out
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And with the temps nearing zero there isn't much gardening to do anyway.
What about the Greenhouse, Lots to do in there
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21-10-2015, 06:44 PM
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Re: Losing gardening skills
Originally Posted by solo
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What about the Greenhouse, Lots to do in there https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=613
21-10-2015, 09:16 PM
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I think it's a shame that all new houses are being built virtually without gardens - just a handkerchief size bit of lawn, if that. The next generation after us seems to have little interest in gardening. It took me years and years to build up my knowledge and experience in growing veg and then flowers. Having said that about the next generation - in fact my elder brother is as bad. I took him and his wife a bunch of tulips and he said "Oh nice - what are those?" Unbelievable.
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