Who Head Of The Family Garden?

Everyone knows that times are changing, that the ways people live are different today.

Your editor doesn't have a long grey beard, but even he can remember driving a brown gelding and the crack of runners over snowy country roads as a shiny cutter, complete with nickel sleigh bells, was used for sporty transportation. But nowadays, they say, things are different.

The automobile has split up the family; home isn't what it used to be. Hmmmmm.

Is that so! Well, we put on our best pair of glasses for making a social study, and we took a good look around. We even di an informal survey. Roses are the tops in popularity. . . but our readers are not just one-crop gardeners. We like to say, and our survey proves it, that plant-care dot com readers garden from daffodils to chrysanthemums”. . . outdoors, all the seasons. Count in the growing of house plants, winter pruning, the gardening activities of Southern and West Coast folks, and some of those enjoyable garden pastimes such as ordering from the catalogs and planning the garden even while the snow is on the ground, and of course it's a 365-days-a-year activity. All this keeps our readers home, except when they're using the SUV to bring back evergreens, bags of plant foods, a new garden hose, and a pair of lopping shears from the garden store! And who is doing the gardening? Those spring digging jobs. . . 70 percent by the men. Planting and transplanting zz plant. . . 50 percent of the men, 69 per cent of the women. Spraying and dusting. . . half and half. Same with watering the lawn, or pruning trees and shrubs. Planning the garden, or buying plants and supplies? This is done by half the men and a somewhat larger percentage of the women. Our readers, who obviously believe in the slogan “We love our home,” are doing things together.

There's a word for this. . . togetherness.

It is the spirit in American living. Thank you, for a good word to describe a very wonderful thing that is happens in America. And thank you, readers of at plant-care dot com, for being the kind of families that have made the American home a so much bigger thing. . . by adding the outdoors to it. Gardening-and of course that includes outdoor living-is something the social scientists could well take a good look at.

I suppose to discover that the American family is getting more old-fashioned as it gets more modern is an appropriate discovery at Christmas time. At any rate, to our big family of readers-gardeners-to our big do-it-ourselves-together family-this is the season to say, “Merry Christmas and a Happy Gardening Year!
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