My wife was going though her photo albums and getting rid of some pictures so that she could reduce her number of albums (she has thousands of pictures, some going back to the 1930's). Anyway, she came upon one that was titled: "Kenneth's first plants". The picture is dated 1973, which is when we built our first house. So this is when my addiction began. Forgive the photo quality. That picture may have been taken with a Kodak Brownie Camera.
I chuckle at such a meager start, a meager start for a lot of things.