Posted on 01/12/2022 1:31:24 PM PST by Mariner
Our sedentary lives really hit home for many people over the last year. Did you gain the COVID-19, or was it 20 pounds?...
...If you’re a gardener, you know gardening is exercise. Experts say the various activities and tasks of gardening ultimately use all of the major muscle groups. In addition, strenuous gardening activities such as raking, hoeing, and digging are both aerobic and muscle strengthening.
Need to pick something up? Do your squats. Carrying something? Do some curls. Reaching for something? Calf raises. Do your rows while weeding. You get the picture. You’re incorporating typical gym exercises while you garden. No machines needed.
(Excerpt) Read more at goodearthplants.com ...
Gardening is hard work and a good workout.
So I put on my Polar H10 heart rate monitor (HRM) and tracked my efforts with the Polar Beat application on my phone via a bluetooth connection.
Results: Duration: 00:35:34 HR average: 115bpm HR Max: 138bpm Kcals: 293 Zone 2 (HR 60-70%) 08:04 Zone 3 (HR 71-80%) 18:04 Zone 4 (HE 81-90%) 08:29
Plus the resistance work!
I think of all the hours spent in my gym with machines and weights and now resolve to direct some of that work into a better garden...while maintaining a fitness regimen.
Sounds like you don’t have to do that until June 6th! Plenty of time.
I am actually looking forward to getting in a better routine of mowing the lawn this year. The neighbor boy did it most of the time last year, but I should be home a lot more this year. I enjoy mowing and certainly can use the exercise.
Did my gardening exercises today. Read several seed catalogs and placed orders with two of them.
I would order early folks as the out of stock items will be very high this year.
Question. Which seed company has the best prices for bulk quantities?
I ordered from Seedway and True Leaf which was Mountain Valley Seed. I also ordered from Todd’s Seeds earlier.
Used a chart that shows seed life in years and ordered enough for three years on most items. Sweet corn seed has gone through the roof!
I things keep on going the way they are, we will all be spending nights, weekends and vacations on collective farms picking the bugs off the organic produce. At least we get a free workout.
Anyone else into sprouting?
Yep. I figure I can work up to it gradually...
I am wanting some fresh zucchini. Made the last big one into a soup a few days ago.
I sprout my own seeds and usually start the peppers and tomatoes around Valentines Day to go in the ground about Apr 15th - May 1st.
This year I’m giving Johnny’s Selected Seeds a try as I only have a backyard garden.
The previous couple of years I used Park Seed Co and their product was all first-rate, but expensive.
A chopping tool is required
I have a cousin who was in the police blotter for attacking some guy with her garden trowel!!
I Love Johnny’s.
Their catalog is excellent with germination Temps. Prices are a little high but great people. Employee owned company.
Gardening ping
First Saturday of May is World Naked Gardening Day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Naked_Gardening_Day
Rohrer’s Seeds in Lancaster,Pa. , has reasonable prices and a good
variety.
You must order early, though, like right now.
Priceless!
Both the bayonet and your mom.
:)
I’ve been mowing since 1965, last year my last mower broke down and I had another injury which is on the mend... but I got a lawn service. alAfter a bit of shopping around first off there wasn’t a lawn mower to be had around here, which made hiring a nice local entrepreneur much easier. Chems, pruning, mow and blow all included. And I’m done messing with lawn equipment and small gas engines! It feels good just thinking about it!
The meme was in response to Naked Gardening Day...
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