When you think about gardening, often it is about the inputs and the outputs, the physical effort, the time outdoors, and all of that is very great but can I take a second to appreciate the unique, ever-changing sensory experiences each year brings?
Getting my hands dirty every morning is mandatory for mental health, the scent of tomatoes is a unique fragrance, and hearing the bees buzzing around the garden is so nice while the air temperature rises as the day starts, and little occurrences like teasing the ambitious root-spin of the bigger tomatoes before planting them is so satisfying for the 10 minutes each year I get to do it. As a bald man, that’s 10 more minutes than I get to do otherwise throughout the year.
What’s your favourite little sensory experiences?
by tavvyjay
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I agree! What a delightful observation. Gardening is a joy
Hearing the birds, smelling the tomato leaves, hands in the dirt.
So true. Well said
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Nothing beats the smell of a tomato plant 🙂↕️ even as a kid, anytime I was in the garden section of Walmart or Home Depot, I would wander off to smell the tomato leaves.
Now that I started gardening this year, I love pruning the plants, I say I’m giving them a haircut. Watching the seedlings get a little bigger each day. Opening up new paper packets of seeds.
Pressing loose soil around a newly planted seedling, feeling the give in the earth like a memory foam mattress 👌
so much about gardening is just good for the soul !!