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The Green Grass Grows
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BY NONI SRIDHARA
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M ary, Mary, quite contrary, how does
your garden grow? With silver bells
and cockle shells all lined up in a row.
As students grow up, this nursery rhyme be
comes long forgotten, but for some, the
thoughts of having a garden still hold true.
One such student is April Herring, a horti
culture graduate student and Class of ’98. She
said she was around plants throughout her
childhood because her mother was in the nurs
ery business.
Herring said she is studying horticulture
because of her family’s influence and per
sonal interest.
“I [was also] really interested in horticulture
because of all the hands on experiences you get
in the different labs,” Herring said.
Throughout her undergrad- *»*»«»**
uate career. Herring said she
has had many different experi
ences in gardening.
“We got to do a lot of neat
experiments,” Herring said. “I
took a socio-horticulture class
in which we learned a lot
about gardening and medicine.
In that class, we went to a lo
cal retirement home and plant
ed a herb garden. In another
class, we got our own veg
etable plots.
“We planted corn and har
vested all the crops and got to
take them home to try them
out. Whatever we didn’t use
we donated.”
Herring has also experi
enced the charitable side of gardening. She
said in another one of her horticulture class
es, she volunteered as a gardener at the Mar-
u'n Z,other King, Jr. Gardens in Bryan.
“It was very neat to see how gardening
could bring people in the community togeth
er,” she said.
Herring said her collection of house plants
has turned her front porch into a jungle. She said
because she is renting her house, she cannot
have a large garden, but hopes that in the future
she can resume serious gardening.
“1 hope 1 can start planting, like, a small veg
etable garden,” she said.
Unfortunately, due to limited space in res
idence halls and apartments, many students
cannot have a full-fledged garden. Instead,
they keep plants around the house as a sign
of vitality.
Almudena Alba, a junior international
studies major, said a garden would be a good
stress reliever, and students could benefit
from the lessons gardening offers.
"One of my room
mates told me
that my plants
were my babies
because I nur
tured them so
much/ 7
— Amira Gerges
senior nutrition major
“I love flowers. I think 1 identify with
[flowers] because they seem to have a per
sonality,” Alba said. “They also express any
thing from happiness to sadness. It expresses
so much when you give flowers to somebody
and want to say something but are too afraid
to say it. I feel gardening would be such a re
laxing hobby. ”
Amira Gerges, a senior nutrition major, has
kept plants throughout her entire college ca
reer because she is not allowed to have pets.
“The plants symbolize life to me,” Gerges
said.
Gerges said she has become as close to her
plants as some other students have become to
their pets.
“1 love having [the plants] because they
just add a lot of joy to my day,” Gerges said.
“It’s a very fulfilling feeling. I love to just to
see them grow. One of my roommates told me
that my plants were my ba
bies because I nurtured them
so much.”
Rob Sweet, manager of Plan
tation Gardens in Bryan, of
fered tips for students wishing
to grow their own gardens in
the future.
“The very first step to
growing a garden is bed
preparation,” Sweet said.
“You want to choose a nice
loose soil [to plant your flow
ers] in, and the bed should
also have a minimum depth of
up to eight inches. The
groundwork for a healthy gar-
den is healthy soil.”
Sweet said another thing to
consider when preparing a garden is the plot’s
surroundings.
“This is more a factor of personal taste, but
in the scheme of things you want to buy things
that will match the landscape,” Sweet said.
He said some of the most common types
of plants people purchase are annuals. There
are two kinds of annuals. The first kind are
planted in the spring and live through the fall,
and the second kind are planted in the fall and
live through the spring.
Sweet also said potential gardeners should
read labels carefully when treating plants
with chemicals.
“[Even good] chemicals for plants can be
bad if directions aren’t followed,” he said.
Sweet said he believes organic fertilizers
are better than chemical ones.
“Initially, it’s more expensive, but [in the
long run], you will have to take less care of
the garden, and less fertilizer will be re
quired,” he said.
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