Gardening is a workout

[Tom]

I have been doing some gardening ... and it is really a workout ... I have never realized that planting a few flowers and get me out of breath and build up a sweat ... it is like yoga.

[jersey]

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Now you need a couple of goats and a flock of chickens....mucking out the pens is a real workout too....and the manure for your garden is a Bonus!

[cgdat136]

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oh yes....cutting back bushes, raking leaves, planting flowers and fertilizing......it all adds up to exhaustion sometimes LOL

[Lulubell]

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oh yeah, i've been slinging yards and yards of mulch every weekend since the beginning of may. transplanting bushes, putting in a stone border on the walkway by the plant beds, you name we do it. and i aint done yet!

my soreness is a testament to my outta-shapeness.

[Sera]

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I wish the weather had been stable here, my garden sure needs some loving and I need a work out
My problem is always that my knees give up on me when I do work in the garden, can't do it for long :/

[sallyseachange]

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Gardening... yep. Great workout. Housework too (which is the only good thing about it! Lol)

[charks1]

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I have perennial gardens all over my property...and added a new veggie garden as well amongst the flowers..geezzz just the weeding is a killer workout..but ohhh so worth it when all the colors pop

[Chicklady]

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Well Tom, if you run out of "workouts" at your place, come on over Weeds are my ongoing workout here, and they are never ending!And Jersey is right.....a few chickens will assure that your get a full spectrum workout

[Creek]

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It starts out innocently enough, a few flowers, a little topsoil, and the next thing ya know your shoveling a half ton of mulch. Then the weeds set in, and at first you bend over and pick carefully among the flowers, until the weeds become agressive and you spend two hours hacking with a hoe. Then the rabbits walk past all those delicious weeds to eat your zinnia's into the ground, and now you've got to get a shotgun.

Let's not even discuss the vegetable patch.

[charks1]

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Lmao @ creek I know exactly how you feel !!

[jersey]

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It starts out innocently enough, a few flowers, a little topsoil, and the next thing ya know your shoveling a half ton of mulch. Then the weeds set in, and at first you bend over and pick carefully among the flowers, until the weeds become agressive and you spend two hours hacking with a hoe. Then the rabbits walk past all those delicious weeds to eat your zinnia's into the ground, and now you've got to get a shotgun.

Let's not even discuss the vegetable patch.

You SAID it!!! Been thinking about a hot wire or RAZOR wire for the rabbits, lol.

[charks1]

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Catherine....are those your gardens..omg incredible...

[jersey]

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Thanks charks1...that's last year's shots of the perennial gardens, part of the rose garden and some of the shade garden. Much more rain this year so things are looking better PLUS getting back to my Atkins WOL is making a HUGE difference. More energy, stamina and MUSCLES, for weeding and planting and hauling manure, lol!!!

[charks1]

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I have perennial and shade gardens also...I love my plants...I added a few new gardens this year...do you have an old house...it looks like and old barn in that one pic...I have an 1840-50's farm house with a wrap around porch...now I need to get the front beds in better shape..yours look just like the pics are out of country gardens magazine.I can't wait for my roses to bloom... My p.c got hit in a storm saturday so it's being fixed..on DH's p.c right now but when I get it back I'll have to finds some pics to post..

[jersey]

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I have perennial and shade gardens also...I love my plants...I added a few new gardens this year...do you have an old house...it looks like and old barn in that one pic...I have an 1840-50's farm house with a wrap around porch...now I need to get the front beds in better shape..yours look just like the pics are out of country gardens magazine.I can't wait for my roses to bloom... My p.c got hit in a storm saturday so it's being fixed..on DH's p.c right now but when I get it back I'll have to finds some pics to post..

Would LOVE to see photos of your gardens...I'm a garden design wannabe....

Our remodeling is now done for the most part on our 1900's farmhouse...a lot of the original charm was removed in previous additions/incarnations before we bought it. The *barn* in the photo is probably our old corn crib which we took down last fall...before it fell down.

I like the look of garden *roomsI* with grass paths wandering through so you always spy something new around the corner. I'm working on a shrub border, a bird garden and a secret garden this year once I get the main gardens underway. Or before the HEAT hits.... Oh, and I must get my Atkins vegetable garden in once the rain stops here. There are more garden pictures in my journal I think - link in my sig.