Do you Enjoy Gardening and Growing Vegetables?

Malaysia
August 27, 2009 11:13am CST
Yes, I do. Every morning, after my usual jog, I will do some pottering in my garden. I will grow vegetable and herb plants.Once these grow, I will harvest them to give it to my brothers and sister living nearby. As for lemon grass, I cut them occasionally and give it to my mother to wash her feet in it in a hot tub of water. She told me that the heat and the lemon grass has good effects on her physical health. So do your do any gardening? Tell us your experience, if any?
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25 responses
• Philippines
27 Aug 09
This is my greatest goal in my life aside from living a Christian way of life. I am really fond of gardening and farming but unfortunately, we do not have much land I can use. I only have pots for my plants. Right now, I am aiming to acquire some decent land where I can harness my skills in farming and I am more than willing to shift from IT career to farming since I really love plants since it relaxes my whole body and make me feel a part nature.
• Malaysia
29 Aug 09
Hope you acquire the land you desire. Gardening is really a wonderful pre-occupation.Besides the morning and evening exercises, we enjoy seeing things grow.So far, my banana plants have provided plenty for our table. The rambutan trees also have given us its seasonal fruits. Gardening is also therapeutic. It is good for our health, soul and body.
@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
28 Aug 09
I love gardening! I currently have a small garden in my back yard that is beginning to produce, finally!! I do not get a lot of sun in my back yard, so it has been a slow process for my garden this year. On top of gardening outdoors, I am also creating an indoor greenhouse that I hope succeeds as well as I believe it will. This will enable me to not only have a jumo start on my own garden and flowers for next yearm it will also give me a way to make a little extra money by selling som eo fmy plants.
• Philippines
28 Aug 09
wow, i envy you and i wish i have a green thumb just like you do, grown lots of vegetables plants. i like to gather, pick and make veggies salads from freshly pick vegetables in my mom little garden. She is the one who know to plants different types of floras and also veggies. I am only active as a picker and harvester
@Loverbear (4918)
• United States
29 Aug 09
I love gardening, and have been an avid gardener since I was 6. I started with sunflowers and then would grow huge gardens of beans, peas, corn, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, carnations and more. I now have a herb garden with oregano (both Italian and hot and spicy), garlic, chives, lemon thyme, cat nip, mint (chocolate, pineapple, spearmint, and plain mint), and a bunch more. I also have tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, sunflowers, cucumbers, lettuce, beans, peas and cantaloupe. I'm hoping that next year I can enlarge the garden and grow more of my food. I also want to try my hand at growing mushrooms from a kit from one of the seed companies.
@miller1978 (1101)
• United States
27 Aug 09
I love to grow my own food. I'm still in the process of learning at this time how to grow new things. I tried this year but the only thing that survived was my tomato plants. Seems to be my knack. I grow plenty of them naturally and give them to friends and family for them to enjoy as well. I take a lot of pride in my tomato plants by babying them daily, pulling the weeds by hand and watering them every evening.
• Malaysia
29 Aug 09
Tomatos are great plants to grow. I grow them too. I love harvesting them and sharing them with my siblings and their families.For me, I also have a favorite papaya tree. It has been fruiting for many years now. Taste good too!
• United States
29 Aug 09
We recently moved into our first purchased home and now have our own yard with room for lots of ventures, and I am definitely planning on doing several things, such as trying to grow my own veggie and herbs. We have previously rented and shared the grassy area with neighbors so it is really limited as to what was allowed and able to do.
@AKMEDIA2 (328)
• United States
8 Sep 09
I think gardening and growing vegetables is very relaxing. Also it's an activity that shows a real, tangible product at some point that you can be proud of. I think it's a great thing and more people should go back to doing this as we are losing too much touch with actual creation of things.
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
28 Aug 09
I like to grow plants and flowers, I don't have enough Sun to grow a garden for vegetables, I ish I could. Have a nice week-end!
• Canada
28 Aug 09
I have a little vegetable garden in my back yard and I love it. Cucumbers, red peppers (which are still green) beans, cucumbers, blue potatoes if you can believe it, and tons of cherry tomatoes. We have had quite a bit of rain this summer so it was off to a slow start, but it's coming along now. The last couple of weeks is where we saw the most sunshine, but get this: Yesterday night we had a frost warning! Actually, I have some pics to. Can we add photos to discussion posts, or do they have to be uploaded separately? xoxo Cyne
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
28 Aug 09
Yup! My friend, I enjoy gardening when I was in province. I am plan rice, vegetables and plant also tree's there. But when we transfer here, in urban areas where no available space to plant vegetables I stop doing it. Because in urban areas people busy doing office jobs. I appreciate you in that kind of habit you have, my friend. If we transfer again in the province I will make sure I plant many vegetables and tree's again...because growing and harvesting vegetables and fruit is so exciting... have a nice day!
@agv0419 (3022)
• Philippines
28 Aug 09
Yes we have a small garden we use the vacant lot here to plant vegetables and some flowering plants. My mother really love to plant and I think I inherit it to here. Since I was a kid I love to plant any kind of plants. I'm actually planted sweet potato and papaya. I'm also planning to plant bok choy for my rabbits consumption.
@bingchen (1119)
• China
28 Aug 09
i enjoy this,maybe the life is very busy and i hope that i can stop a moment and enjoy the life's growing,this can calm down my anxious heart,i found that it make me feel so good and let me forget unhappy thing,i think that i find a quite way to relax my mood,at the same time,their growing is like the process of human's life,this can give some comfort and encourange.
@airakumar (1553)
• India
28 Aug 09
When i was a kid we had a small kitchen garden at our backyard and I really enjoy gardening and growing vegetables like carrot and lady's finger and tomatoes. Once they grow, we use to take out very firmly and start shouting we did it we did it....and my mother use to be very happy seeing smile on our face and my father give us so much appreciation. Though they know we didn't have done that alone. They helped us but they always use to say..they are proud of us.
• Malaysia
28 Aug 09
Hi gracefuldove. i don't have a garden, but i know i do enjoy gardening. when i was small, my mother used to grow vegetables behind our house. It was not a lot back then, but i still remember the feeling when i pluck a tomato off the tree. I like the feeling to cook the vegetables that I grow myself. Have a nice day =)
@dengyl (59)
• China
28 Aug 09
In fact , I don't like grow vegetables , but I like gardening .I likes growing all kinds of flowers in front of my house and then I will expect the day when all my flowers come out , all come out , forming a real garden .It seems that I am the one who give them life.I am proud to be the creater of them .
• India
28 Aug 09
yes, i enjoy gardening..i will do my gardening every weekend because i feel relief by doing that...in my garden there is a apple trees that looks great..if i don't take care of them regularly they will be infected with insects and worms..they are juzz lyk my family.
@Archie0 (5652)
27 Aug 09
I love gardening a lot, especially i love growing vegetables then harvesting them and giving to my relatives, i grow tomatoes and chillies sometimes even corriander.Most of the time i love to grow green vegetables.I simply love doing gardening a lot.I got a medium sized garden where i got lot many flower types and ferns too.
• Philippines
28 Aug 09
Hi friend.. i love gardening most especially flowers, i appreciate flowers when they are already grown up because that's the time that you can see the beautiful creature of GOD. The funny thing about gardening is that you will take care of them like what you do to your love ones, and also it helps you a lot and save you money if you already harvest this vegetables. Good luck & Happy mylotting
@taztheone (1721)
• India
28 Aug 09
Well my mother Loved gardening. she had many kinds of flowers in her garden & as a kid , I too loved it & helped her a lot. Once grown up, I never had time for all those & was busy with my life. I still wish I was in my childhood so that I can do some gardening which was fun.
@realan (518)
• United States
28 Aug 09
We love to garden. Every year we add lots of new flowers and bushes to our garden. I enjoy growing vegetables and fruits. This year I haven't had as much time, so I only have 4 different types of tomatoes, strawberries, and my fig tree. I usually also grow cucumbers, lettuce, peppers and occasionally other veggies.
@chinlynn (21)
• China
28 Aug 09
you will ba a excellent gardener