"Happy Bug in soil"

[dexterdoglancashire]

Did anyone read the article in the Daily Express yesterday? It was basically saying that people who garden are happier! (Tell us something we don't already know!).
I think I've found the link......
www.express.co.uk/posts/view/3374
What do other Grapes think?
Bernie aka Dexterdog

[kirsty b]

Sounds good to me. I know I'm never happier than when I'm out and getting grubby.


Kirsty

[beefy]

Been pushing /chasing a lawnmower for the last two days DDL .Must have walked about 20 miles and I'm not complaining .Its good to get out and feel the sun on your face and the back of your neck.
Getting dirty - well thats a bonus .Isin't it?

[dexterdoglancashire]

KB - couldnt agree with you more.
Beefy - you must have a big lawn, or did you drive your lawnmower instead of your big lorry?
Bernie aka Dexterdog

[serenity]

I would say the gardening me is a much happier person that the non gardener that I was. fresh air, excercize and the simple joy of another succesful sowing Then the harvest, the cooking and the eating.
An artice printed in the local paper indicated that the sheffield hospital's ocupational thereapy unit has a couple of allotments and regularly encourage their patients to join in as part of their therapy

[yoanbob]

they dont give allotments to cliicly depressed people for nothing!

[Pottypotter]

Must be true I havent been the allotment for a couple of days

[Headfry]

Am I the only one?
If I buy veg from a supermarket, I just prepare and cook them
If I use my own home grown veg, I seem to almost thank them??? and remember the days spent tending them...so much more thought goes into the process of preparing and cooking home grown! even eating them is a different feeling.
Is this a bad cse of 'show me a full moon and let me bark'

[yoanbob]

no your not the only one, we thank the chooks for their eggs too and its even worse eating your own animals. I think all gardeners are part pagan.

[Flummery]

It's the same when you make wine. I never see a hedge I've got a crop from without thinking of it as a friend. Specially sloes and cherry plums - God's gift!

[Dobby]

they say you get green fingers doing gardening. how come mine are black
after planting am I doing someting wrong

[Headfry]

I too have trees in the hedgerow that I watch over like a I would a friend!!
Thought I was the only one!
Relieved to know there are others!!!!

[kirsty b]

Me too Headfry and Flum.

Hedges I've picked from before I treat like old friends, and I have a real sense of discovery if I stumble across a new one.

Kirsty