Gardening

[Bambi]

I wish I didn't have a garden, I ache all over. I hate doing it.

Im dreading having to tackle my back garden because I just know it won't do it self <_<

I broke two nails, scaped skin off my fingers, got attacked by countless worms and I had to handle mud

I hate it :stare:

 

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

You should come and live at my house then mow the 2 back gardens the front and the side one...then moan at gardening

Gardening really bores me, in fact, being in the garden in general bugs me...unless it's reallyyyy warm or I'm kicking the ball at the goal.

 

[Bambi]

You havent seen my back garden <_< it looks like a jungle and the cunts are refusin to give me a fence

I ache all over today from doing the front one

I need to invest in a spade a trowel and a rake. There are better things I could be spending my money on

I've got some idiot coming to look at my back garden tomorrow, he seems to think I can do it on my own. I'd like to see him try, jumped up little prick >_>

 

[Bei Bei]

I love to garden even though I'm not good at it. I can never start a garden because I don't know how, but after it's started I love to be out there picking weeds, watering them, tilling up the dirt. I'm more into gardening flowers than vegetables though. Vegetables just seem like work when I garden.

 

[Moogles]

I wish I didn't have a garden, I ache all over. I hate doing it.

Im dreading having to tackle my back garden because I just know it won't do it self <_<

I broke two nails, scaped skin off my fingers, got attacked by countless worms and I had to handle mud

I hate it :stare:

Yeah, gardens are poop. More work than they're worth, I say! They attract insects, yield nasty veggies, and are often eye sores. My mom's garden looked horrendous once she stopped caring about it and let it become overrun with weeds and crap like that.

Dump a whole lotta dirt over it and forget it was ever there. Unless you end up enjoying gardening. Then it won't be a chore and you can actually make it look nice.

 

[Onusha]

I adore gardening, even though I'm absolutely terrible at managing anything large. I guess it's just wonderful to wake up and see something you've cared for to grow into something pretty or yummy.

Maybe I'm agrarian but it really gives me a sense of self-satisfaction and makes me feel apart of nature.

 

[Auronlu]

I grew up in Amish country (not Amish) and we had a huge garden... WONDERFUL blueberries, tomatoes, strawberries, and a ton of other stuff.

As a result I almost didn't eat veggies when I left home because store-bought ones taste like cardboard to me.

I am very grateful for farmers' markets.

But even more, I am now grateful to have my own garden at long last. Believe me, I hear ya -- I have arthritis, and the simple job of hacking up hard ground to plant some marigolds laid me out, plus I'm still aching from two days of trimming a jasmine bush the sellers had left in a terrible state -- but gosh, there is something about "good tilled earth" I'm so grateful to have access to again.

Probably in a year this will wear off. Though I am lucky. All I have is a tiny bit of flower beds on the sidewalk leading to the front door, and the back is a patio that's mostly neatly-laid bricks in a pleasing pattern, with a 3-foot strip of dirt inside a wall running all the way around the perimeter. The latter came with: 1 jasmine bush as large as a VW bug (after much trimming Ive disovered a pretty arched ironwork trellis underneath), 1 profusely blooming Cape Honeysuckle that takes little maintenance and attracts hummingbirds, 1 eucalyptus, 1 Asia pear tree, and 1 might-be-a-plum-but-I'd-like-a-professional-opinion-before-I-chow-down.

Also an ornamental ficus which I'm going to have replaced with a peach tree.

(Edit: And no, you don't get giant jasmine bushes and Asia Pear trees in Pennsylvania; I've moved to SoCal.)

And now I have tomatoes and herbs in pots, which make them manageable.

A small garden is good. A large garden is too much work for one or two people.