I grew up in Southern Mississippi in the mid 1950-1960's. I grew up in a time when almost everyone had a garden in their back yard. I am sure many of the gardens were left over from the Victory Gardens of the 1940's. My Grandparents, who having lived on 300 acres that they owned and were now living on smaller acreage on the outskirts of Hattiesburg, MS, had their vegetable garden in the backyard. They had lettuce, carrots and tomatoes and various other edibles growing in their backyard and I was in love! I spent most of my time in my Grandfathers garden. My Father, had he own, big garden out in the country and I spent alot time in it. My Mother grew beautiful flowers and she knew the scientific and common name of just about everything. I took on the "grow your own vegetables" mantle and now over 60 years later, I build gardens for people and teach people how to have a garden and how to have a garden with easy and simple organic maintenance. I spent many years on a 100 acre farm in Nebraska and had 7 big beautiful organic gardens to eat from and we grew everything from asparagus to broccoli to potatoes to almonds to a host of herbs.