Survey #157 Response from Marina
| Pronouns | She/her | ||||||||||
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| Which of the following growing things or green spaces are under your care? |
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| What lawn or garden chore do you find the most difficult, challenging, tedious, unpleasant, etc., and why? | Weeding, mowing the lawn, weed whacking edges, watering the fruit/veg garden. It’s very time consuming and I would rather be doing other things. The watering the fruit/veg garden by hand isn’t difficult but we live in a wetlands area and the mosquitoes will bite you 20+ times for standing out there watering for 30 minutes. Not fun. We have plans to replace the lawn (in sections) with Dutch white clover so we only have to mow it once every month or two. We put in an auto drip water system last year that you can control with an app. I gave up weeding the garden and plant heavy amounts of basil, cilantro, oregano, marigold, and sage beneath the tomatoes/peppers/other plants. | ||||||||||
| What’s your favorite thing to grow, and why? | Berry bushes. In 2020 I had bought many varieties of Honeyberry bushes, blueberry bushes, and Meader cherry bushes. They started fruiting last year and they taste so sweet and good! Excited to see when I can start making jam or jelly. Last year I got 2-6 berries per plant but the tastiest berries I ever had. I also planted aronia berries which were so bitter by themselves but are very useful in indigenous cooking recipes. I also planted pink currants which I hope will fruit in the next few years. | ||||||||||
| What emotions do you experience when you think about downsizing? | It’s hard to let go of things you really love and like when you go from a big place to a smaller place. I think if we ever downsized I still wouldn’t let go of my earrings collection. | ||||||||||
| When do you expect to downsize your living arrangements? | We might move in the next 5-10 years. We might have to downsize but we are in a 2 bedroom house so it’s not huge but not tiny. | ||||||||||
| How would you feel about having to give up 50% or more of your current possessions in a downsizing move? |
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| Complete this phrase: “Spring is _.” | The start of the gardening season. Start growing seedlings inside and transplant outside to the garden beds in May! | ||||||||||
| Here’s your chance to ask Gayle and Ed any question you’re curious about. It need not be related to this survey’s topic(s). | How many cars is too many cars? My partner has 3 cars, I have one car. One is a personal car, one is a car given to him from work for work things, and the last is an old school car for short drives. We only have two car spots in the garage. Our driveway is only so long… I don’t know where all these cars are supposed to go. He has asked me if I would sell my car since I don’t drive it much, but he has three cars... So... | ||||||||||
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