Being outside with your hands in the earth can be some of the best therapy I can think of. I have spent quite a while the last couple of days up on my allotment, planting potatoes, carrots, radishes, peas, mangetout, french beans and broad beans, perpetual spinach, onion sets, courgettes and squash.
My allotment looks like an allotment now, which is a good feeling. I still have some sweetcorn, a couple of different sorts of beans, brussel sprouts and some Jerusalem Artichokes to go in, but I'm almost at the point of just weeding and watering for a bit, which I'm looking forwards to immensely.
The wind and rain on my back, the pheasant's call and the cheeky blackbird who follows my spade around whilst risking life and limb in search of the fattest worms for his babies all conspire to keep me sane. Whilst I'm working, I can hear my neighbour's chickens wombling around for bugs and roots and when I look up, I can see the community orchard in beautiful blossom. Life has so many facets, and there are so many of them to be grateful for...
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I am glad you enjoy your garden, I almost envy you. I wonderhow I'd keep the dog off the garden,
While I am not a gardener, I understand. Hikes and walks outside are my "sanity keepers."
Sending hugs, regardless of all brown dirt on your hands *g*
But yes, the being outside & planting things, especially food plants? Yes, I can see very easily where that's enjoyable, especially in half decent weather! *hugs* I'm glad you got the allotment, and delighted that your rotory thingy means you got where you wanted to be with it this year. :)
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But hey, I doubt you'd enjoy some of the things I find fun either. It's good that we don't all want to do the same things for fun. And the output of some of the things are things other people do enjoy (food, in your case) which is also good.
So good for you...
The summer flowering bulbs I planted early spring are just starting to make themselves known. I think the lettuce is starting to sprout too but I have several different types and they went in troughs which have a weed problem so I'm still tying to identify which are seedlings and which I don't want to eat!
I really need to get my radish seeds in the ground and maybe the first rows of lettuce and chard. (our last frost date is generally around May 21st so...) I'm thinking that maybe this year I'll even get my wall'o'waters back out (provided they'll still hold water after three years of not using them and storing them... um, badly) and maybe even have tomatos before the end of August.