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louisj80

New Gardener/Introduction

20 years ago

Hello Fellow Gardeners,

My name is Louis and live in Youngstown, Ohio. I am a transplant here from Phoenix, Arizona. I was unable to grow anything in AZ because I was quite young with no guidance and also because it is so try and hot. When I moved I dabbled in gardening, I threw some seeds on the ground and hoped they would grow. My partner and I bought a house and I got serious. We sectioned out a patch in our backyard, bought a trailer full of compost, quite a few yards of peet and I rolled my sleeves up and tilled the soil. Before that I installed a grow light in the basement on a timer. Sowed seeds and watched them grow. They are now in my garden along with the various seedlings that I purchased and I LOVE IT! This weekend my parner and I put up a picket fence to keep our beast of a hound dog out of our garden.

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