Crack cocaine versus gardening? I know what I'd chose. You know, it strikes me that gardening is so darn hopeful, community minded, meditative and therapeutic, good for gut health etc - it's exactly what the kids need. I wonder how many communities would be different if there were gardens at their centre.
What a wonderful woman your Grandmother was, giving you a love of gardening that would last a lifetime, and that ensured she lived on through your own green thumbs.
Can I ask though, from this ignorant Aussie, what are old Tums?
A beautiful piece of writing that reminded me of my own Nana, who passed on her gardening love to me. I think it might skip a generation though - my son is a city boy who moved to Melbourne at first chance he got. Saying that, his fiance and brother in law are really keen on urban permaculture and he's being forced to bottle tomatoes, fetch garden supplies and dig garden beds in city backyards against his will. One day, I know, he'll be planting tomatoes with the best of us.
Tums are a calcium-rich chewable antacid ... Grandmother left a lot of them behind ... Dad thought he was going to use them, but then we discovered what was really going on with all our digestions (insufficient veggies, bad food combos) and so didn't need them any more!
Oh wow there you go!! Here they are Rennies or QuickEze.