Well, I've never been accused of being normal
I remember all my screaming and crying too, and my mother and grandmother trying to comfort me.
I have a lot of other, accurate early memories of event details after that event--really intense joy-type things and other intense trauma-type things--like I would have been a great child witness, if anybody had cared.
They tell me I was a precocious child, but I don't remember actually thinking until the summer after kindergarten.

[quote="greene"]@dirtdorphins,
Some people would have a hard time believing that a 2 1/2 year old can remember things, but


Some people just have really amazing memory capabilities, much to the chagrin of others who can have those memories used against them

Lavanda said:[quote="greene"]@dirtdorphins,
Some people would have a hard time believing that a 2 1/2 year old can remember things, but


Some people just have really amazing memory capabilities, much to the chagrin of others who can have those memories used against them

I remember many things from about that age, like being carried in my mothers arms. RIP

I can remember very early things as a child, but often can't remember what I had for lunch. I have a lot of childhood memories, but really none of gardening.

My parents didn't grow any flowers or ornamental plants. All were veggies & berries. The garden was very large and we had to help plant, weed, and pick. Lots of memories of picking wild strawberries, blue berries and mushrooms. I would often walk about a mile on my own.

One of my favorite memories was riding my horse between the corn rows. That year the corn was really tall and I would ride up and down the rows as fast as I could go.

We had a Victory Garden in the 40's.Grand parents on both sides were farmers so the land has always been in the conscious.
My first personal memory was a first grade bean growing project..
Each of us had a wax cup with dirt in it. We planted and tended our beans. The sprout was such an amazement for a 6 year old.
Oddly enough That feeling hasnt changed .

ge1836 said:
Oddly enough That feeling hasnt changed .

And its a fact. We did that in the sixties to in school. The thing is for me in my thoughts though that came to mind:.........is that I had already done it by the time our teachers told us to save our milk cartons for the project. I had pretty much already gotten the idea from Grandma and Grandpa already. It was new to the other kids though, and I was still proud to take my bean home and add to the field because it was mine!

People spend money for bean seeds. Dried beans from the grocery store in a bag were what our teachers used to buy to teach us to grow! Cook a pot and save a few to plant.

I have often thought that, if I was showing young kids what germinating seeds look like, I would use fall rye, wheat and peas from a bag of cover crop seed.

Big, vigorous, fast-growing seeds, not wimpy flower seeds.

Maybe include a few zinnias and marigolds, and a few fussy perennial seeds, just to show the range of seeds from "eager" to "willing" to "dormant".

A seed memory. My grandparents had a dairy farm and a big garden. They grew a dozen tomato plants easily along with rows of beans, yellow and green,plus parsnips,onions carrots beets etc.
They loved the Morton Toms.in those days Mortons werent heirlooms.They saved seeds because these toms were the best tasting.I remember clouds of seeds on the kitchen windowsil until they tried to germinate hibreds The seed saving stopped then.