yard work as therapy

[Cataholic]

Oh, YEAH? Get in your car, drive 96 miles south, and I have a whole yard of therapy for you!!!

[emily_the_spoiled]

I am the same way with yard work, it can be very therapeutic. Over the last couple of years when I have been stressed at work I have worked in the yard. I have rented a chainsaw and cut down diseased trees, dug up tree roots, hauled in top soil and compost, plants lots of flowers, strawberries, raspberries, and other things.

I feel better and the yard definitely looks alot better

[JenBKR]

Oh, YEAH? Get in your car, drive 96 miles south, and I have a whole yard of therapy for you!!!

LOL I'll second that! I like to have a nice yard, but I don't really like doing the work. Some of it I don't mind, but when I look at everything that I want to do in the yard every spring I get overwhelmed and end up doing about half of what I planned to do I am hoping that I'll get better at it with time, but I'm not holding out much hope!

[Randi]

It sounds like a perfect day. I agree, it's very soothing to work in the garden, you get tired the right way - wish I had one right outside! OK, I do have a little allotment, but it takes half an hour to get there.

[Logan]

For me, working in the yard is the BEST therapy, ever, especially when my dogs and cats are with me.

[joycenalex]

Oh, YEAH? Get in your car, drive 96 miles south, and I have a whole yard of therapy for you!!!

these actions do have consequences...my low back and tush muscles, specifically the ones that are used when i sit are unhappy. today we're planning on planting the weeping cherry in the hole in the front yard. there was a 45 yr old old sugar maple where the hole was (tree removed, stump ground out) and i think the weeping cherry will look great there. i'm planning on some snow drops and lipstick red tulips around the base for fall planting. the remaining maple will be getting some sweet william (aka mayflowers, a ground cover that likes shade) around the base. the overly large prennial bed along the back fence will get 4 elijah blue fescue (ornamental grasses) planted in front of the bed, next to the yarrow ...which better take off this year or out it goes....so johanna, i'm pretty well 'therapizied' here...come north, bring jonah and you can help lunch and iced tea provided, and tylenol too

[poofy]

I would love to have a yard to work in, I have lived here on my brother prop on the desert for over 10 years, now im moving to a small space in a trailer park and still no yard..aww even a few floweres would be nice..sigh...

[pitc9]

I love it too!!
I have a few rather large flower beds and they keep me busy all summer long!
The dogs also keep me busy keeping them out of the beds!!

[joycenalex]

i'm having knee surgery in july. i'm kind of on a time rush to get as much done as i can before july. i'll be sitting alot them, and admiring my work....gerber daisys may be going in the very back corner, but i'm also going to a garden sale tomorrow, so there might be changes