New Country, Big City, Indoor Gardening Opportunities
Here is a little clip about an island boy coming to a big Canadian city and getting fascinated with indoor
gardening.
Last day I began talking about the root of my square watermelon story. Growing square watermelons did
not happen until years later, but many things happened that I believe are all part of my
curiosity about how things can be done a little differently to express creativity and generate more fun.
When I came to Montreal to study, planting and nurturing were still very much part of me. I learned indoor
planting and was introduced to new types of plants and fruits.
I am not quite sure about others, but planting outdoors is very different than growing things indoors, With
indoor gardens or plants you must take into consideration lighting, position of the room to maximize sunlight,
dryness in the atmosphere, etc.
What was certain is that I was fascinated by the wide varieties of plants and flowers (although I’m not very
much into flower gardening). I experimented with many – spider plants, philodendrons, jade plants, bird of
paradise, sensitive plants (a weed in the tropics but a wonder in colder climes), etc.
My interests in planting went up a couple notches because I was fascinated by the growing of new wonder
plants. As a student, I had a lot of tough text books to read for school (my major was math and science) but
having access to gardening and plant books lightened reading and made it enjoyable.
Of course, reading about indoor gardens, new techniques, different plants (even trees), is enough to stir the
creative and imaginative juices. Even the thought that I could grow a
coconut palm tree in an apartment was possible.
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