Gardening is one of the healthiest things you can do.

higardengerty when we had our own house I grew a large veggie garden and we had our own tomatoes,peas, green beans, lettuce, cukes and other veggie and boy were we healthy, we used no chemicals in ou r gardening either. nOw of course I am stick here in Gold crest and veggies are all cooked and in soup and not particularly fresh either. we do have salads but they stick maybe a half cup of greens on our plates, that's not what I call a salad. lol. but if I can get my legs stronger there's a Vietnamese market that sells the freshest veggies not too far from here. Here in Garden Grove Ca is a square mile of so of Vietnamese people who came here because of our climate. it is called little Saigon and they are really wonderful neighbors,kind, clean caring, and very little crime here, no police cars always showing up like in other parts of Garden Grove and other cities here in Orange County Ca

I wish I could work out in the garden but I get sick in the heat. If I do anything out side it has to be very early in hte morning or very late at night and either one equals mosquitos!!!! My husband does all the gardenig but we have cut back because we have a huge deer problem and they get everything before we do!!! We grow lettace, for our pet rabbits! We also grow pumpkins, for the grandkids, last year the deer left them alone!!!! WOW!! I have a little asparagus patch and this was the first year I got to have any!!! Very happy about that!!!! WE have strawberries, again if the deer don't get into them. I know he planted some green beans and peas, tomatoes and green pepper. Alkso some carrotts probley for the bunny rabbits!!!! Although the rabbits really prefer the tops to the carrots, we must have spoiled rabbits cause what they really like are the baby carrots and they want them WASHED!!!!

Gardening is wonderful! My bones and arthritis are such that I can't do much weight bearing, though, so I do it from a little stool. However, I do get the sun. I just heard today about the dangers of sunscreen. Luckily, I've never worn any so I can't get cancer from it. Seems nothing is safe nowadays no matter what measures we take. The old fashioned ways of doing things are the best.

Gardening is good exercise, and it's a great, cheap way to get fresh veggies. I can't have a garden here, I live in a mobile home community and the people who live around me are so disrespectful to other people's property.. I'd worry my plants would get trampled! Though we're discussing moving in with my father in law. Hubby's mom recently passed, now FIL is lonely and cannot afford his bills.. and obviously we're not happy raising our kids in a trailer park. If we move in with FIL I'll have loads of space for a garden and will probably attempt to grow a lot of veggies!

I grow tired too :) but I love the garden. I am looking at my containers and the tomatoes have taken off and blooming with the weather being warmer !

Haha, yes, everybody that gardens can grow tired and grow healthy. I did gardening for years. I would do cherry tomatoes and then some early girls and I did zuchinis, you have to WORK to kill off those. I tried strawberries and corn once but the bugs got them. I hope to garden again someday but I've lost my patch of dirt. My parents covered it in rocks....haha

Yes, gardening is a very healthy exercise all the way around! I know about the shortages of vit. D also, and even though I spend much time in the sun I am still severely low and the Dr has me on 50,000mg twice a week until it gets back up to where it belongs. I grow all kinds of stuff in my gardens. In the veggie sections, I have zucchini, cukes, tomatoes, string beans, acorn squash, pumpkin, and I'm undecided if I'm doing peppers or not this year. (My one daughter always has a bumper crop of peppers, so it's not a 'must' lol) I also have beds of asperagus I'm enjoying right now. I have a herb area where I have different types of garlics, leeks, and mints, etc. I also have flower gardens, and rose gardens. (Good thing I have a huge area to work with!) Like you, hoeing isn't my favorite activity, so what I do is take thick damp newspaper and bury it flat inbetween the plants so grass won't grow and it saves me a whole lot of weeding. They say we might have a hot drought type year here, so I plant giant funnels made from used plastic 2 liter soda bottles. I leave an inch out of the ground and put them inbetween the plants. Then when I water or fertilize, it goes straight to the roots and one fill up of water a day does it. I have half my neighbors doing this too for years now too, saves on time, water, and recycles too:-) Happy gardening GG!!

I didn't know that gardening is a weight bearing exercise, wow. When my kids were little and we lived in a house, I would be out in the yard for HOURS gardening. It would be an all day thing for me. I had a vegetable garden that was pretty good size, plus my flowers, trees, bushes. I was in my own little world out there. I love your sentence..."what do you grow in your garden?..I grow tired", haha, that's cute!

very well written Gerty! We grow tomatoes, zucchini, green peppers, cucumbers, radishes, peas, beans, trying out watermelon this year.

Hi GG! I knew it was good exercise but I never thought of it being weight bearing exercise. I love fresh vegetables and I wish I could have a garden. The thing about it is, I don't own the property I live on any more and I don't know if my bil will hear of it or not, knowing him. He grew up on a farm and he knows what hard work it is and he got sick of it. We used to keep a garden all the time when daddy was living.

Cute. I to enjoy my garden, do not have to go to the gym. Because of my meds i am not to over do it in the sun, but i just limit my time out or cover up with light colored or light weight. I can not wait for tomato sandwiches or fried summer squash. You are making me hungry.

Since doing up my garden to make it more kid friendly, I have also become a keen gardener, and last year grew my own baby potatoes, this was the first thing food wise that I have ever grown, and I was so proud of what I had achieved, and best of all they tasted fantastic. This year I have big pots on my patio, which are currently growing cherry tomatoes, sweetcorn, onions, and cucumber, my mint has also sprung back with avengeance, and I am also delighted with the way my chives have grown... I am limited as to what I can grow, as we have such a small garden, hence why I grow in big pots, but I try and grow as much as I can, as I believe it is healthier, and tastes much better than the food bought in shops. I am like you though, and I really do not like weeding, they just seem to get everywhere dont they... I do love to mow my grass though, because I love that fresh cut grass smell, and I love how neat and tidy it looks after a cut.

Hi GardenGerty We have always had a garden, but now that we live in an apt we don't have any land to have a garden. Sure do miss our garden and everything that goes with gardening. Plus I miss my home grown and homemade Green Fried Tomatoes. Take care Snow

in my indoor garden i grow Cannabis Sativa, ALBAHACA MORADA, Ocimum sanctum L., and zapallito CURCUBITAE

I used to love to have a vegetable garden, but it's so hard with my work schedule. My busy time of year is right when you should be planting everything. And since the planting and getting it going really makes the whole process work I just don't do it. Last year my husband started my garden for me but he did such a hatchet job at it nothing grew. I have heard that gardening - even flower gardens - is great for you. It's exercise, and if you have a garden, chances are you enjoy it. So you are getting your workout and having fun at it!

I love plants. I live in a very challenging situation for gardening. My upstairs apartment has but a narrow stairwell that I share with my neighbors. It is also a wind tunnel; so bad that our big rubber green garbage cans regularly go on walk-abouts. I have solved the problem of growing things on my stairwell though. - My plants shelter from the wind in Rubbermaid bins. The bins do not block sunlight, just wind. Inside, there are herbs and potatoes growing away. It is an excellent way to ditch used coffee grounds. Plants love them.

I garden some but I do not hoe or weed because my gardens are all either hydroponically grown indoors at waist-level or higher with no weeds and no bugs, or they are in raised planters outdoors, also with no weeds except for the edible weeds that I grow. I did have some plants in pots in the ground, but you will learn what happened to them in the next paragraph. There are some pests in the outdoors, principally ground squirrels which ate a whole pepper plant with flowers and green peppers, too, and half a tomato plant, and they ate 5 pots of flowers, blossoms and all. They ate part of my grape vine and even a few leaves from the bottom of palm seedlings I was growing. They ate verbena and impatiens and even morning glories which are supposed to have poisonous leaves. Oh, well. Maybe I will strengthen my muscles running after the squirrels with a big stick, lol. Yes shortage of vitamin D is implicated in strokes, so I fully intend to soak up the sun and try to avoid those.

Lugging on bags of different things would be weight bearing, pulling weeds is definitely up there with resistance bands. Right now, onions, garlic, oregano, margorum, chives, rhubarb, and mint. Later on, other things. But those are the ones that are actually growing right now.

I wish i had a place to try to grow some foods. I have never really had good luck with plants. I dont know if some people just have a green thumb or if its learned. I tried to grow in pots but that didnt work out very well either. I wish i could. Anyway i dont really have a place to grow anything right now.

I am doing a garden for the second year in a row. I had a small one years ago, but then didn't do it again until last summer. I didn't realize how much exercise I was getting working on my garden 'til I came in the house sore all over. As a diabetic, it's really good for helping to keep my sugar down too. I expanded my garden this year and I'm doing some experimenting with square foot gardening (good for those who mentioned not having the space) and topsy turvy gardening. I'm keeping a log of my progress on my blog. If this link doesn't work, there's a there's a banner link on my profile page if you want to keep up with how I get along. http://linkb.com/gardenfeed