True gardening stories: My most inspiring garden experience 147 Articles

by Elizabeth M. Hammons

My Grandma was not a wealthy woman, but she lived a life of richness and beauty. She lived in the same small four-room house her entire adult life. She never learned to drive, nor did she feel the need for a car. Her house...read more

by Amy Paul

Sean, my youngest brother, lay dead in the cold May ground. How could he have been taken at only sixteen? He, of all my brothers was my kindred spirit-we snowboarded together, both of us enjoyed biking and hanging out wit...read more

by Pat Lunsford

I honestly thought a small veggie garden would be a good way to bond with Mandy, my seven-year-old granddaughter. Her father, my son, agreed to till the soil and provide the seeds and tools. I had just recently moved in wi...read more

by Heidi Marie Fleetfoot

It was a chilly February morning as I swung my old blue ford around the bend into the drive.I opened the car door and climbed out onto the cold gray concrete slabs lined by overgrown trees and drab bushes. With my woolen s...read more

by Tanya Kime-Wallace

I could write about how I completely redesigned and installed my mothers garden for her as mother's day gift and how much satisfaction it gave me to do that just for her. I could write about gardening with my daughter and ...read more

by Terry Booth

Things had gone badly for us as of late. My wife and I had both lost our jobs for reasons not entirely within our control. We had lost our home and had to move into a smaller, slightly run-down house on the outskirts of ...read more

by Pat Merewether

It's been over ten years since I took the Master Gardener classes at our local county extension office. I learned a lot, but the best part of the experience are the friendships I made along the way. One of my classmates...read more

by Petra Sando

Gardening with Grandma About twenty-three years ago when I was about eight or nine years old, with short brunette hair and a curiosity that got me in trouble quite a bit I spent a lot of happy times in my grandma's ga...read more

by Lizzy Fox

Spending days in my grandfather's garden was the essence of my childhood. From the time I could walk I was plodding behind him in tall rows of tomatoes or beans. I would squat and marvel at the size of the cucumbers and ...read more

by ktarcus

Rebuilding Eden At first sight the garden in our new home was just what I had been waiting for all these years; big. Measuring 108ft long and 18ft wide it stretched into the distance like a green freeway just waiting ...read more

by Jacqueline O'Donnell

I recently returned home. It's strange to say that. How is the house in which my parents live "home" when I have lived more years out of it than I did in it? There are many strange things about going home - how small yo...read more

by Loni Stel

Come and take a walk with me in my garden. It's not your typical garden. It's watered often with my tears, as I kneel down and touch the petals of five different rose bushes or take in the scent of the deep emerald everg...read more

by Brian C. Noell

"It's Saturday and There's Work to be Done in the Garden" Its late March here in Michigan, the weather is still cold and it's wet. When I say wet, I don't mean we've had a day or two of light rain. I mean wet. Last week...read more

by Nannieblake

If this is a repeat submission, I apologize, I do not see my first submission recorded anywhere. I don't know if this could be considered a "gardening experience" as what I am about to share just involves one plant. . ....read more

by Carol Nelson-Williams

As I dug the soil with my gloved hands it occurred to me that I was once the girl who hated dirt, bugs and weeds. Getting dirty was something I hated and I would do anything to avoid being out in a garden. I had briefly l...read more

by Faith Draper

My most inspiring garden experience happened many years ago in a backyard garden in Texas. At that time it was the largest garden I had ever tended and I spend countless hours caring for the many fruits, vegetables, and fl...read more

by Cheryl Kincaid

My daughter died before she was born. I know, that sounds strange. At 38 weeks pregnant I went into the hospital for an ultrasound, just a check up to see how the baby was doing. I knew something was wrong, though. Thi...read more

by Debra Cornelius

Gardening With Nana I was on the back patio today watering hanging baskets and potted plants with my ninety-four year old grandmother. Talking of the challenge of keeping the plants healthy and growing in the record bre...read more

by Dawn Graham

My love of gardening began when I was a child. Only back then it wouldn't have been considered love. It was more of a deep seeded loathing and contempt. As one of four children of a single mom, my days after school were...read more

by Rw Roberts

Raised beds and organic tomatoes "What do you mean, you aren't using fertilizer.' Of course you have to use fertilizer." He just looked at me as only a grandfather can look at a grandson that has lost his ever loving mi...read more