I don't live where I could have a garden, but that would be my favorite part.

Specifically, Spring turning of the soil with shovel. Digging the Zen.

Gardening is my wife's passion. I had a job as a teenager where one of my responsibilities was to tend to large vegetable and flower gardens. That was enough for me.

We did build a small greenhouse (from a kit) at the beginning of the pandemic and the results have been crazy. She's growing cucumbers, green beans, yellow squash, zucchini, several types of tomatoes and broccoli. It's like Jurassic Park in there!

Her other garden is on our deck and she's growing several types of lettuce, more tomatoes (cherry-sized) and a bunch of herbs and spices.

She loves to play in her gardens. I love to eat the bounty!

We plant several pots of coleus in the spring, and then just leave them alone. They thrive with little to no attention, which is my kind of gardening.

ingesting all those good microbes!!

Dirt under my fingernails.

So I will add that I love smelling the flowers as they bloom

called Pentas and the honey bees and hummingbirds are loving them this year. Oh, and butterflies too.

I have been picking 30+ lb watermelons lately. That's pretty rewarding.

I do the purchasing of the plants and the watering. I love watering. We have no intention of setting up an automated drip system. It's a small garden, and it's a peaceful but small part of my day to go out and water them. The dogs like going out with me when I do it.

My other task is tearing it all out at the end of the season. And eating, of course.

Those things are the cockroaches of the plant kingdom, and pulling them up makes me feel good even though it doesn't permanently get rid of them.