my garden i would grow mangoes and oranges in my garden i would grow sunflowers in my garden flowers in vegetables in my garden i would grow tomatoes leadeth broccoli maybe you will plant our own garden my grandparents were farmers and so i would spend the summers with them and they always had huge gardens and so part of what i did when i was with them was to help with the gardens and we'd go out and pick things and pull the wee some water and so i learned a lot about gardening from my grandparents a lot of my friends and neighbors like gardening and so we kind of wanted to be able to garden together and a lot of us who love gardening find that our yards are not big enough to do all of the gardening we would like so we'd like extra garden space or like my yard is all shade so it doesn't grow vegetables very well because you need sun for vegetables so this gave me a great chance to find another sunny spot where i could grow vegetables that i can't grow my own house and then also just knowing that we can take a place that's sort of nothing and turn it into something beautiful that's right in my neighborhood i live just a couple blocks away so they make a beautiful place for me and for my kids and for my neighbors to enjoy i love that idea to you want to know about gardens on the side you know that garden what kind of gardens they had who wanted to know who had gardens in the past we wanted to know what they grew and how they grew it we learned that there are many types of gardens on hundred six with a lot of the residents of roseville public housing here a lot of the elders and they have no yard and they want to garn and most of them are mo elders and so when the armory national guard armory see here have this place all it was was just of deals with trash so beds mattresses tires trash loads and loads and loads were pulled and hauled out of here back then and so when they cleared the ground they brought in soil so they're there  there are fifty three plots so fifty three elder mostly elder seniors come in here and they grow food that they like in the traditional hmong  culture that they like to look at these beautiful big cabbages this garden here do not have water access there is no hose here so all of the elder garners have to carry the water from their home as close as across the street and as far as a mile away and in the garden here everything is used and recycled this is a  gate you know from a baby's crib look here look at his beautiful bamboo for steak and post so things are being recycled here in this g green beans pickles tomatoes peppers and a plan to put up when we were children mostly italian railroad ties for that asking you know almost every family saw the ties and chopped them and piled them in the neat piles in the basement of their home we never suffer from the cold i can remember in the fall of the year that contended look on their face as the italian parents as as they sat survey the rows of piled wo shelves of the basement nearly full of canned goods the potato bins filled to capacity in times fresh homemade sausage is in the attic to dry they took pride in the fact that the vegetables canned it had been grown in their own little garden