WELCOME ALL!  Get yourself the beverage of your choice, make yourself comfy, and let’s chat gardening and life.  As a PH.D., Clinical Psychologist (aka “Doctor Dave”), I’m usually on the listening end of conversations.  This blog is an opportunity for me to talk.  To share with you, my passion for all things gardening.  I was introduced to home gardening at age twelve, by my Granddaddy Rowley, whose love of growing vegetables was matched only by his love of eating vegetables and fishing for trophy bass in Lake Okeechobee.  As an adult, I resumed gardening nineteen years ago, as a family project with my three daughters.  And while they quickly lost interest; grew up into strong, independent women; and claimed a stake in the adult world, I fell in love with gardening!  In part, because it paralleled my career work:  Promoting Growth.  Since then, I’ve become a gardening, canning, pickling, drying, freezing, and all-around-preserving addict, who refuses to go to rehab and insists to family and friends that I am:  Not obsessed, Not obsessed, Not obsessed!  Adamantly denying that I am in denial.  Incidentally, my lone supporter and enabler, oldest daughter, Becky, is now a home gardener and mother, who actively seeks my gardening advice and wonders how I suddenly became so smart.