Give me your greatest motivating words for working in the garden

[Sheree Bobbins]

Give me your reasons you love to garden. Something, anything to motivate me to go out in the fresh air.

 

[minkydog]

"Woo-hoo! Look! There's free green beans and tomatoes and cucumbers out in the backyard!"

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

LOL Minky!

 

[lovemygoofy]

Just do it for me! I love to garden but here the sun will anhilate everything or the wind will rip it apart, I have gave up on growing things.

There is something so satisfying to see things you've babied, cursed, nutured and loved come to your table. Kinda like children! It gives me the best satisfaction to taste my own tomatoes or cut my own flowers.

 

[North of Mouse]

Give me your reasons you love to garden. Something, anything to motivate me to go out in the fresh air.

I was lucky in inheriting my mom's love of gardening (flowers, that is ). 'Nothing' can keep me out of my yard! It's great exercise, and great for my emotional well being, but that's not my 'true' motivator - it's 'pure love'. LOL

I have about an acre yard of flower beds, front, sides, back, - and it's just 'so' satisfying to watch them grow and bloom. My DH helps some, but he doesn't have the same feelings for it that I do. He's happy that I'm happy.

 

[lynxstch]

Besides the free food you can grow, or the beautiful flowers, I find it very theraputic and relaxing to garden. You get fresh air, sunshine, commune with nature, nothing like it!

 

[diznygirl]

"Someone's Gotta Do It"



Actually, I agree with lynxstch - it does become very calming and meditative to just clip and pull weeds.

 

[crz4mm2]

Fresh Veggies.

 

[Uncle Remus]

"Woo-hoo! Look! There's free green beans and tomatoes and cucumbers out in the backyard!"

What a wonderful thought!!

Just do it for me! I love to garden but here the sun will anhilate everything or the wind will rip it apart, I have gave up on growing things.

There is something so satisfying to see things you've babied, cursed, nutured and loved come to your table. Kinda like children! It gives me the best satisfaction to taste my own tomatoes or cut my own flowers.

And back to reality!

 

[Cantw8]

You don't want to be THAT neighbor...they will talk about you if you don't do something significant with your yard

 

[superme80]

If I am not pulling weeds then I have to pull the kids in the wagon again.

 

[lizbaby007]

I love to garden...and have a beautiful one in my head. I am afraid of the bugs and stuff in the yard so as much as I would like to dig in and grow stuff I stick to pots of flowers on my deck and porch.

Case in point. I have a strawberry plant that has gotten huge so I re-potted it into something bigger last weekend. I was working in the yard with it and left it there. Yesterday, my DH went to mow and when he lifted up the pot to move it back to the deck he found a lovely black SNAKE coiled up underneath it !!!!

He kept trying to reassure me that it was just a harmless little snake and the poor thing was just trying to get a nap. Yeah, whatever. I hear you but Im not listening. I dont do snakes. Ever.

Yup, its pots and hanging baskets for this girl. Far away from the snakes and bugs that like to chill in the yard.

 

[3DisneyBuggs]

This morning DH was planting lettuce- the first planting this season. As he dug the dirt he thought he saw a couple of cicadas. Then he felt and saw a brown furry spider crawling on his hand. I told him those are the reasons I don't garden!

 

[low-key]

go watch tv and just dust off the wallet and buy a tomato

 

[The Mystery Machine]

It is a way to be "immortal". Long when you are gone, you will have trees, shrubs, flowers, that live on.

In addition you nurture insects, animals, & birds. The hummingbirds are out there drinking from my spring blooming perennials and I had a lizard the other day on my porch. Plus I have tree frogs singing their spring songs and also sitting on at the top of my porch light at night eating the insects.

Also it is a way to get out there, get fresh air, exercise, and be social and talk with neighbors and meet others.

 

[Philagoofy]

For me even though it's work, it's relaxing, being out in nature, takes my mind off things, fresh air, grass, beautiful flowers, trees. Get a sense of accomplishment tending a garden.

Although not at 11:20 pm EST!

 

[MIGrandma]

We gave up on vegetable gardening a couple years ago, after having so much trouble with blight on the tomatoes and cucumbers.

But, we turned it into a perennial flower garden and I'm really, really enjoying that. We planted things last spring, and they all did well last year, and now I'm going out there every day to see what's coming back up now that spring is here. We put in a few more things last week, and have a few more to put in yet. We have a winding path (mulch) down the center of it which leads to a decorative metal trellis where I plant Morning Glories (had red ones last year, multi-colored this year). I've got a cute garden gnome, bird bath, gazing ball on a pedestal, shepherd's hook with decorative wind chimes, etc.

I love working out there, weeding and taking care of it. And we have a glider rocker out there, so I can sit and enjoy and look at it, and read a book.

It is so much fun watching things grow, and making changes/adding things each year.

Eventually I'd like to have it fenced in with white scalloped vinyl fencing, with an arbor for "entrance" into the garden, and decorate the fence with bird houses.

 

[dazedx3]

One of my favorite quotes.......

A society grows great when old men plant trees
whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

 

[LBIJim]

Just look at the other thread about Naked Gardening Day. That should be plenty of motivation!!

Jim