Nothing romantic about being a gardener, and in fact no different to cleaning someone's house or business - except for having to do it in whatever the weather dishes up.
Running a nursery's not too bad though. (Which I've also done, which you'll know if you've read and remembered my bio (http://www.hi-toro.com/shareworld/general/bio.html).)
So, photos of old nurseries here (http://pics.livejournal.com/stillcarl/pic/0006x2a3)... The first two are from 1974. My parents had a market garden and nursery and I took over the nursery part of the business and that's what those two photos are of. The third's from 1977 and is totally my own nursery, in that I built it all myself. (And was situated elsewhere.) As you can see though, the move didn't change things much. ;-)
I did figure out how to build tunnel houses eventually though, and they're still standing, though moved elsewhere from there. In fact they're the two, little, 50ft long shiny ones, end to end here (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=-39.658071,176.865495&spn=0.001813,0.004393&t=k&om=0).
'tis very easy to start a nursery, if you've space for one. Just buy some seeds, plastic containers and dirt and you're in business. Add protection and heat as needed...
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Running a nursery's not too bad though. (Which I've also done, which you'll know if you've read and remembered my bio (http://www.hi-toro.com/shareworld/general/bio.html).)
So, photos of old nurseries here (http://pics.livejournal.com/stillcarl/pic/0006x2a3)... The first two are from 1974. My parents had a market garden and nursery and I took over the nursery part of the business and that's what those two photos are of. The third's from 1977 and is totally my own nursery, in that I built it all myself. (And was situated elsewhere.) As you can see though, the move didn't change things much. ;-)
I did figure out how to build tunnel houses eventually though, and they're still standing, though moved elsewhere from there. In fact they're the two, little, 50ft long shiny ones, end to end here (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=-39.658071,176.865495&spn=0.001813,0.004393&t=k&om=0).
'tis very easy to start a nursery, if you've space for one. Just buy some seeds, plastic containers and dirt and you're in business. Add protection and heat as needed...