What's your favourite part of gardening?

[roadrunner]

My favorite gardening activity is to go out to the street in the town where I live and collect leaves from the sidewalks to make munching in my veggie garden. Whenever I come across a bunch of leaves I think I'm rich!
My neighbors are not into gardening and they often let leaf mountains on their coreners. I get a bag, gloves and catch all the organic material I can. I feel as is I were a gardage collecter (which in fact I am). I feel extremelly happy doing this!

I just noticed this post and I can say I do the exact same thing. I get really excited when I see bags of leaves on the curb

 

[Owdboggy]

Stopping!

 

[Michele Louise]

My favorite part in gardening is when I see my flowers bloom to its fullest. Healthy vegetable production. Maintaining the graden is not very easy for me. I have to pull out weeds every now and then. I usually have cuts during pulling out weeds. My friend recommended NoCry Puncture Resistant Gardening Gloves and it really work for me. Now even pulling out weeds is not a burden to me.

 

[Beverly]

Whenever I come across a bunch of leaves I think I'm rich!

I know this feeling I just harvested my first compost. The garden is small and i worked long and hard to think of ways to compost in a small space so it wouldn't take up too much space and be unsightly, so it wouldn't stink and attract particularly nasty bugs and whatever else. With the help of a friend's encouragement, i made a plan and put it into practice...and it worked! When i was bagging up the results, i did feel wealthy and rich and ridiculously happy because of the results and because it is the exactly the right thing to do. Now, the man who trims the ornamental olive tree in the front of the house, also trims the trees (Neem trees) of some neighbors across and down the street a bit. He always bags up the leaves, but now he bags up the neem leaves and brings them to me. I like Neem leaves to use in the compost and also as mulch. The leaves are small and become crispy in no time. I love to use them in the compost bins and also as mulch. But still, i think what i best like in gardening is to see the seeds break the soil and raise their little heads.

 

[Becky]

Stopping!

Haha! There's nothing quite like a break after a tiring job

 

[Dinu]

I consider myself lucky to be able to have a small patch of earth which I can freely dig and enjoy planting, watering, seeing life while providing something for the birds, little creatures to enjoy too. In these tough times here, not all will be able to have the chance to grow a few plants as houses here are built so close to one another which leaves no space at all except for human movement between the houses separated by a compound wall! Mine is an inherited property, made 105 years ago by my g/g/father and only half of it remains with me [other going to brother]. So in this yard space, I have spent most of my spare hours even doing nothing often! Just being there is a good feeling. Most of the times I take my breakfast near the pond and have it there, looking at the sun, the fish, a few birds that fly by, the blue water lily, some flowers and of course the greens. Coffee-tea is also taken out and had what I call 'in-garden'!
I'll show photos in another thread.

 

[Elena]

In the spring I love to plant without gloves, to touch the soil and then to wash my hands in a barrel of water. And in the summer I love working in the greenhouse with tomatoes. I cut their leaves, and there is a beautiful tomatoes smell . And of course I love to show my harvest and to present my tomatoes to neughbors and relatives.

 

[roadrunner]

Another favorite part of gardening for me is seeing what comes back year after year. I've noticed that certain cultivated plants seem to reseed themselves better than the original sowing; in other words, I'll get a few plants from a single seed package, but then they'll propagate via seeds by many, many, many... Although, I'm not sure if it's because the subsequent generations are more vital or if the seed package had a bad batch And some just don't propagate.

Couple of examples are Cosmos, Sunflowers, milkweed, Sugar Baby watermelons, morning glory...Although, I guess a major factor in all this is the amount of seeds produced vs. what you get in a package.

A surprising cultivated plant is broccoli (at least in my very limited experience) that propagated in a big way. I planted them for the first time last year from a seed package that a neighbor gave me, nothing special, just a plain package you may find in a Walmart. Only two plants survived from all those seeds, but one was a very hardy and large plant and produced many flowers that the bees went crazy over (the second plant wasn't that big, but it did produce some nice flowers.

And after the flowers went to seed, the birds went crazy over the seeds and I didn't attempt to save any. Then on top of that I dug around my yard a lot burying a lot of wood, so any seeds that were in the top layer of the soil were buried with the wood. However, this year I have well over a dozen broccoli plants that came back from those two plants and most of them are very big and beginning to produce broccoli heads. I wonder if I'll have enough bees to work them, along with all my Florida Betony and Spiderwort, which will flower about the same time.

BTW, right now the bees are loving the purple wood sorrel

 

[Larisa]

I do not know what part of gardening favorite. But I lose weight when I'm to plant and when I'm weed to plant. And I love it!

 

[Sol]

My favorite part in the garden is is pruning and planting

i am actually new in here and i would like to know more about how to garden. we just moved into a new house in Alabama and we have a front lawn that was not really maintained well however i went ahead and bought this garden tools set i am actually very happy with it. decent price as well

https://www.amazon.com/Scuddles-Gar...&qid=1497151833&sr=8-1&keywords=+garden+Tools

 

[Tetters]

Haha! There's nothing quite like a break after a tiring job

Especially today...me back`s killing me, and the English sense of humour definitely rules out anything poetic

 

[Peace perfect peace]

What motivates you to garden? Is being outside in the sunshine, watching something grow or w
Harvesting your own vegetables.

I love to spend all day in the garden satisfied I sit back with a big bowl of snap peas, or a tomato sandwich. That's what keeps me out there.

Well I hope im not to late to reply to this one?
I like gardening for a few reasons; Like its a hobby you can do as a group/family or alone, it keeps you fitter than sitting in a chair trying to sort the worlds problems out, you can see how and whats used when growing your own food?

And i must admit i like nothing better than the first thing in the morning garden inspection to see what nature has pushed up through the earth or the opening of the buds on the tree's over night,
Time just speeds past as your doing what you enjoy and then that last relaxing sit on the old garden seat just looking at the pure beauty of the garden as the day comes to an end and the birds settle in the trees,

 

[Logan]

I like how the seasons change and I have to change the wallflowers when they've finished to the summer plants and how people say how lovely my front garden looks, that really gives me a boost. It's harvesting the fruit and veg and just looking at it. Looking forward in the spring to see everything growing.
I spend all of my time in the garden and the housework can wait.

 

[Tetters]

I like how the seasons change and I have to change the wallflowers when they've finished to the summer plants and how people say how lovely my front garden looks, that really gives me a boost. It's harvesting the fruit and veg and just looking at it. Looking forward in the spring to see everything growing.
I spend all of my time in the garden and the housework can wait.

You and me both @Logan

 

[Logan]

You and me both @Logan