GardenWorld had an article on the health benefits of gardening.(No longer online- but I’ll give you another….)
Among the good things you can expect from your gardening endeavors is sunlights effect on producing Vitamin D in your body and elevating your mood, staying mentally alert and reducing stress, and building a social network.
The advice given is to approach gardening as any other athletic effort: warm up and stretching, trying to use good form in actions such as lifting, etc.
Sometimes we think so much of the plants and flowers we forget how much of a physical activity it is for us.
…until the next day, that is!
