Official TEG Poll: What’s the Real Reason You Love Backyard Gardening?

What’s the Real Reason You Love Backyard Gardening?

  • 🥕 The flavor, nothing beats homegrown taste

    Votes: 1 100.0%
  • 💰 Cutting grocery costs, especially with rising food prices

    Votes: 1 100.0%
  • 🌿 The therapy, it keeps me sane and grounded

    Votes: 1 100.0%
  • 🧑‍🌾 The challenge, I love testing new varieties and techniques

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 🐝 Supporting pollinators and building a thriving ecosystem

    Votes: 1 100.0%
  • 🍅 The bragging rights when harvest season hits

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 👨‍👩‍👧 Teaching my kids or grandkids where food really comes from

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 🧺 Preserving food, canning, freezing, storing for winter

    Votes: 1 100.0%
  • 🌎 Living more sustainably and reducing my food footprint

    Votes: 1 100.0%
  • 🌻 Honestly, I just can’t imagine not having a garden

    Votes: 1 100.0%

  • Total voters
    1

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You already know the magic of pulling carrots from the soil and popping cherry tomatoes straight into your mouth. You have battled weeds. You have outsmarted pests. You have probably planted too much zucchini at least once in your life.

So now I’m curious. What keeps you coming back to the garden season after season? Let’s compare notes.

Vote for the one that fits you best, or the one that makes you nod and say, “Yep, that’s me.”

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almost all of them plus:

outside!
exercise!
birdies!
froggies!
bugs!
toads!
worms!
dirt!
water!
mud!
crayfish!
fresh air!
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