100 Things #74) I enjoy gardening, alot.
I believe that gardening is an important act and that everyone should garden in some way, shape or form. Even if that garden form is a simple pot of chives on a windowsill and nothing else - it is important to understand that food isn’t just something picked up at a store, but rather something that requires care and attention and a bit of a miracle before it reaches our plates.
However, believing it to be important doesn’t necessarily equate enjoyment. I believe cleaning the toilet is important too but I don’t enjoy it. My father instilled a love in gardening in me from a very young age. He always welcomed his daughters into the garden with him and gave us each our own gardens as we got older. We were able to plant whatever we wanted in those gardens and he made us our own signs. My dad is still my favorite “expert” to turn too whenever I have a gardening problem or question.
Gardening is a ton of work, I admit, and its hard, back breaking sometimes, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Nothing worthwhile comes about by being lazy in my experience. Gardening is an important skill and one I’m grateful I have a little bit of, its a way to provide my home with fresh, healthy food, its a way to cut rising grocery prices, it provides exercise, and it gives me plenty of quiet time outside enjoying mother nature.
June 30, 2009 at 5:36 am
Beautiful tribute! Gardening matters. I wasn’t raised with an appreciation of it, but am glad I have found it as an adult!
June 30, 2009 at 9:47 am
I’m jealous! My beans are not doing well at all this year.
June 30, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I enjoy gardening too, but never learned much from others in my family. What I know I’ve learned on my own. And while my tomatoes are going gangbusters, my beans are just pitiful.