Due to the restrictions in COVID, you are right that people who never thought of being involved in gardening started planting in an attempt to survive. We simply realize it is a secure way to provide for things that cannot be easily gotten.
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I've seen a lot friends who became green thumbs at the depth of the pandemic, though I'm sure it came naturally. Maybe we are just all to busy chasing dreams and careers that we have so little time to plant or do gardening before. :D