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| Here For | Gardeners | | Hometown | Glenview Illinois | | Education | Bachelors Degree | | Major | Theater | | Degree(s) | BA | | Special Training | Theater | | About Me | In 1992 my wife and I rented a weekend home in the Catskill Mountains to escape the blistering New York City summers. It was here I started my first garden, or should I say my wife pointed and I dug holes. If you don't know the Catskills, that would be holes filled with rocks: little rocks, big rocks, medium rocks, and more rocks. At that point I knew nothing about gardening but through time learned to overcome or at least co-exist with the challenges of gardening in the Catskills. Sure we're at 1800 feet, the mountains periodically block the sun, there are plenty of insects, foxes, raccoons, bears, deer and jackalopes that eat what you grow. But despite this, each year we're able to harvest more than enough for family and friends. But what about all the pictures and endless discussions about our garden? What about all the gardeners we never get to talk with? What difficulties do people face in other climates? What do their bugs look like? What do they grow that we don't grow? I want to know.
So I set up ShareMyGarden.com to see what others are doing with their piece of land. It’s a site where anyone can create their own garden profile to share with family members, current or past friends, or find new gardeners to discuss tips, similarities, differences and photos of what they grow.
I hope you like it.
| | Your Growing Zone | 6 | | Groups | Garden Structures, Root Cellars, Garden Friends, Garden Foes, Celebrity Gardeners, City Gardens| Personal Website | You are here. | | Favorite music | Maggies Farm, Bob Dylan, Evie's Garden, Freedy Johnston, The Garden, Guns 'n Roses, Killing Frost, Slapshot, Garden Party, Rick Nelson, | | Favorite movies/tv | Favorite mammals, bat, eats lots of bugs, woodchucks, eat hornet's nests, Bears, so cool to see, deer, don't eat my garden for some reason, fox, what's not to like, unless you have chickens, pigs, natural garden tillers, racoons, they have opposible thumbs but like to eat corn, on the fence about them!, | | I've traveled to | Alaska, Blacksburg VA, Houghton MI, Dubuque IA, Urbana IL, Kingston NY, Fargo ND, Glenview IL, and seen gardens in all places! | | Clubs | Sierra | | I want to meet people for | To see what they are growing! | | |
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Garden Comments for John SMG |
  Julie | September 25, 2006John Carney is a wonderful gardener and naturalist. He's an ispiration to all his friends. |
 Peter | March 22, 2007 John's gardens are spectacular! I've seen photos of his
abuntant garden's and I can't wait to see what he
produces this season.
Peter |
| Peter | June 21, 2007I wish we were going to be here for some
of those beans off your tower.
Peter |
 Kevin | June 30, 2007John, do you have cicadas in New York like we do in Chicago? (If you do, they're probably on a different 17 year cycle.) |
 Will | October 30, 2008Yum, peaches. |
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