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My fingers would kill the plants. But I agree with you. Any activity is better than none.
Growing things is a skill just like most things: it can be learned. If you want to.
And putting your hands in soil the way gardeners do has been shown to help both mental and physical health. At the moment they think it’s the good bacteria in soil and the link between our gut biome and our brains that isn’t fully understood yet.
And people are animals and animals like to be outside
You seen those pigs raised in captivity that see grass for the first time? They’re all up in it. We’ve just removed ourselves from nature a lot.
Humans have always like to cultivate plants, it’s one of the first things we thought to do
Get a cheetah as a pet and aside from the heart pumping sprints, you can brush up on your combat skills to keep from becoming lunch.
Agreed. I used to be really bad with house plants, but I’m incredibly stubborn and kept trying and learning. Now I have more citrus trees and tropical plants than my husband is comfortable having in the living/dining room all winter. I offered to move half of them to our bedroom which also has south facing windows but he declined. Can’t imagine why, lol.
I call it my "dirt therapy". There's just something about digging around in the garden and planting things that makes the day better.
If you want you can look it up and read more about the ‘something’ that’s being studied now. This is a pretty good place to start and a quick listen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001x4v8?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Okay I’m going to be honest and say I have an aversion to my hands getting dirty. City creature comforts. Which is why I respect those who use their hands for labour at work and leisure.
All people are different people :) I grew up in the countryside, lived (and gardened) in big cities all of my adult life and have now returned to the countryside in my 50s. I’ve also been a professional artist all of my life, so having been raised by parents who grew their own food before it was trendy, and being around charcoal and paint and many other crafts my whole life, having dirty hands is a sign of a life being well-lived to me. But like I said, we’re not all the same. It’d be a boring old world if we were.
Man, you have the life I ENVY and dream of. But I know practically I cannot survive beyond a day. We’ve tried the island resort life and got bored after 3 days, cancelling the rest of the long stay and flying to a city instead. I like day trips to farms and such but not staying overnight. I scream blue murder at every flying insect. So you can imagine if I lived in rural areas.
I love that you do art. Takes talent and dedication to turn a vision into a beautiful canvas!
Thanks! I mean to be honest the island resort life would bore me to sobs too. When I travel I want to see something of the real world, rather than part of it that’s been put through the corporate machine. One of things about growing up in the countryside is that you learn the helpful friendly bugs from the ones that might bite. I am lucky though to be living in the western US where there’s very little that will actually hurt you - as opposed to say, Queensland, Aus, where I would be a lot less laissez faire about creepy crawlers.
And on the art - thank you. Most of my working life until a few years back was actually digital for animation and movies. Sadly no one yet has wanted to buy anything I actually put on canvas. But there’s lots of ways to make a living from art besides actually putting a brush to a canvas - fortunately for me! ;)
And mom said eating dirt wasn't healthy for ya, lies all lies!
To be fair to your mom that was probably before any scientific research had been done to show that trying to keep everything super clean - especially around children with developing immune systems - was actually a really bad, if well-meaning, idea.
:( Link between gardening and ALS
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240313135501.htm
This just states that there is a link but doesn’t say why. There are so many possible factors there. Were these men using pesticides? Was it a combination of things? Were they genetically predisposed? It doesn’t say. It doesn’t even ask.
.....and yet they tell you to wear gloves when you clean the litter box.
Possibly that’s because there’s a marked difference between feces and dirt?
We found the infamous Plant Strangler!
Oh no! 😨
\My username))
Freddie, are you okay? Are you okay, Freddie?
You heard it through the grapevine!
Gardening is also raking and mowing. Very good exercise.
I kill them without even touching them! Well, that’s the problem. Turns out even the hardiest of plants will die if you leave them on a balcony in the Texas heat and never water them
This triggers a childhood memory where I had a rose from school to be given to our moms for mother’s day. I took it home and it wilted ALONG THE WAY.
Oh nooo hahaha
I have a very survivalist garden. As in, it either survives, or it dies. I suck at babying plants to keep them alive. So the policy in my house is that the kids get to pick plants out from the clearance shelves because they're kids, and they love picking stuff out, and we plant it, and we see what happens! I love planting things and digging in the dirt, I just am terrible at all the rest. As a result, our garden is an amazing hodgepodge of randomness! The forcynthia, lavender feverfew and mint are doing amazing, I have killed more sage plants than I care to count, there is a huge patch of orange daisy-like flowers, I don't even know what they're called, they may be weeds, but my son loves them, so we let the orange flowers do their thing, I thought the fruit trees died, but this year they sent up shoots 6ft tall that are flowering, so we are gonna see what happens there as well, and the olive tree is so happy I might buy another just to give it a friend! Anyway, my point is, you don't have to be good at gardening in order to enjoy it, and sometimes beautiful things happen quite by accident!
Your garden sounds amazing and I’m so envious! I have an aversion to getting my hands dirty. City creature comforts. I completely respect every person who use their hands for labour or leisure.
With a little practice and starting with really hardy plants, you can get your basic gardening skill up. If you want some good basic starter plants that are damn near impossible to kill, try some herbs - mints are especially easy and hardy and require little work to keep thriving. I used to be terrible with plants, like, I'd kill cactuses.
I've got a catnip plant at my parents' house that's been going strong over 10 years now, lol. It's survived outdoor in Buffalo winters and the deer and my neighbor's cats eating at it, it almost died last year due to a vine weed that choked it pretty good and killed everything around it, and you wouldn't even know anything had happened to it. It's part of the mint family, damn thing grows like a weed and I'm pretty sure will outlive me. Even got up to growing tomatoes in pots in my old backyard that was all concrete, no grass, and which got VERY hot and sun-baked over the summer due to the concrete holding the heat in. Got some massive 2lb+ beefsteak tomatoes from the Mortgage Lifter strain, which IIRC is a hardier one, but really should be in the ground, not in a pot.
If growing or creating something isn't your thing, then what about destruction? For me, I love splitting wood, but really I love swinging the axe and sledgehammer around and breaking stuff. You'll definitely build some arms and core muscles swinging an 8lb hammer around.