Buff Gardeners
This group is intended for those who enjoy the natural aspect of gardening, and don't feel the need to cover their natural state while tending their plants. This group may be used to exchange ideas, and success stories, and of course...recipes, that have been brought fourth from the earth.
- created by douglas62
First nude gardening of the season.
Return to DiscussionsI must confess it was warm enough for some nude gardening one day last week, but I was lazy and just sat out in a lawn chair and soaked up the sun and looked at the work that needed done. But today I dug into it. Borderline temps and some passing clouds kept me motivated to work and not sit. Working generated body heat. Got the first 4 clumps of ornamental grass trimmed back while totally bare . And out front while in my barely there shorts ( elastic waist band with fabric flaps front and back) I edged the sidewalks to the driveway and to the road. Now I have an 8" wider sidewalk to streak down each morning for the paper. I do think it is amazing that when the poured the sidewalks 100 years ago that they knew just how wide my push broom would be! And the front yard is raked of sticks so baring a spring storm the lawn can be mowed when it needs it.
Not bad for March 22 in Indiana. I heard about 3 hour drive north of here near Lansing MI they have accumulating snow in the forecast. They can keep it.
Gardening in the tropics is a whole new ballgame for someone raised in a moderate temperate climate (where the Winters are cold but no snow). It is great because you can be nude in the garden all year round, but the plants themselves grow so differently. For instance some of our rainforest trees are deciduous but they don't lose their leaves in the Autumn/Fall, they lose them in the second half of the dry season which coincides with Spring in the rest of the country. And these are massive trees with thousands of leaves. Within about four weeks they are all down, but keeps me busy raking for a few weeks. (posted pic to the group, but don't know if that is even still possible...not many groups seem to have photos).