Satisfaction out of gardening?

i love gardening also but being a chef i limit my gardening to growing fresh herbs and veggies that i use in my kitchenon a daily basis, if i had more time i probably would grow some other types of plants such as flowers and such , but for now its herbs and spices and veggies ...

I don't necessarily do it for the end product. Gardening relaxes me. It also provides exercise. The biproduct is just a nice benefit to me. I added a photo of my 1st attempt at a flower bed.

Yes, I love gardening too! Can't wait for spring weather and to get my hands in the dirt! Love pullin' up weeds, planting flowers and bushes and even trees and a vegetable garden (food price$ are going up and up!) Love to see the flowers spring, summer and fall, and love to pick the veggies and prepare meals with them... :)

gardening is something i have never done but i think i would love it. i have some flower pots built on the front of my house and i was thinking of trying it. it would be small to start i don't want to go big cuz i am not sure how i would do. i do however grow plants. i love house plants and used to have a ton but my sister in law killed them(she didn't mean it)i just started again and am loving it. my aunt gave me a bunch cuz she was killing them and i have brought them back and started new already they are growing so good. i am so proud of myself!lol

Gardening is my therapy. I go a little nuts in the winter and once the holidays are over, I start itching to get out into the yard. I have some forsythia bushes along on side of my yard and as soon as I see buds on them, I am cutting branches and bringing them in to force blooming. It brings a little early Spring into my home. I have started some herbs this year and I can't wait to start my cucumbers and what ever else I have room for. I have gotten my grandson involved now. He is in charge of watering the herbs and will be helping me more in the yard this year. I can hardly wait.

Absolutely! I love gardening and wish I could have one here. We're renting and I don't know how long we'll be here (not long, I hope!) I thought about container gardening too. I guess I should start looking into that as a possibility and get going on it. I mean Spring is going to be here eventually, right?

Hi, my girl, if you have read enuff of my diatribes, gardening is major in my life....and for many years, I actually had the only Nursery on this Island. That's actually how I started Landscaping..one lead to the next. I try and grow enough, to put a lot of preserves and frozen by. Course there's nothing like flowers...(but I have an on-going deer battle.) Every time I find some-thing the deer don't like this year...next year it's their delight!I now have all my gardens weeded, I have 2 of my 3 acres landscaped...and all my brassicas, legumes, mescluns in. Soil still too cold for root veggies. Nothing like dirty fingernails and dirt on your upper lip. Happy growing!

There is nothing that compares to the experience of gardening. I have had to limit myself to container gardening on my apartment patio, but I still am able to feel immense satisfaction in nurturing and watching my plants grow. As it is very shady, I have had to learn which plants thrive best in shade to partial shade. Shaded patio gardening has certainly been a creative experience for me. I am also fortunate to be living next door to a very good plant nursery. I love to stroll through their isles of plants, touching them, smelling them, just being at peace in the midst of them. So, in addition to my container plants, I have a whole other world of plants to enjoy.