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HAPPY WORLD NAKED GARDENING DAY!!

 
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From my new garden beds, to yours!
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Strawberries!
Strawberries!
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Lots of ground to cover!
Lots of ground to cover!
Staff note (Mike Haasl) :

World Naked Gardening Day is the First Saturday of May

 
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This is great, Carla!

I'm proud of you and a bit envious because today is a bad mosquito day, between recent rain, overcast and being behind on mowing. My garden time has been spent with every bit of me covered and feeling grateful for my sun hat and bug netting hood.

Thanks for celebrating on my behalf and I'm with you in spirit.
 
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I really want to know what idiot picked May 1st for this day, it was 5C here today and windy it's cold enough in the house never mind outside!
 
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Skandi Rogers said


I really want to know what idiot picked May 1st for this day,



Yes me too Skandi!  It was a lovely day for gardening, and I did take my jumper off, but a cold north wind meant it was still a two T-shirts and long trousers day despite the sunshine.  Maybe more skin at the end of May, but no way the beginning!  "Ne'er cast a clout" (don't take off your coat) "till May be out", and neither the month is over nor the flower (hawthorne) is in bloom, so my clothes will stay firmly on just now thanks!
 
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But kudos to you Carla, hopefully your weather was a bit warmer!
 
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It was somewhere between 78°F & 80°F, when I was out there. We're not where neighbors are going to see, unless they actually come down the drive - and I had a pullover house-dress handy, just in case. I got a bit more sun on my face than I meant to, because I forgot my (homemade) sunscreen, and the ticks are out, and on the prowl, so I didn't stay nekkid, the whole time - just in this area, where we are diligent about the d.e., and herbal/ essential oil battle against them.
 
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Skandi Rogers wrote:I really want to know what idiot picked May 1st for this day, it was 5C here today and windy it's cold enough in the house never mind outside!


Can't do July 1st, what about people on the other side of the globe?
 
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May Lotito wrote:

Skandi Rogers wrote:I really want to know what idiot picked May 1st for this day, it was 5C here today and windy it's cold enough in the house never mind outside!


Can't do July 1st, what about people on the other side of the globe?



87% of the worlds population live in the northern hemisphere, and most of those in the southern half of the world live close enough to the equator that whichever month one picks it would be fine, Only really the very tip of south america and NZ that might get a bit cold on the 1st July.
 
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Just checking in tonight to see has been having a bit of crazy fun today, and …..blah.  Oh boy, you guys need some lightening up. So here’s something from Hawaii that may make you chuckle, or shock you, or make you mad. Maybe I’m just old and crazy, but gardening today was fun.
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Su Ba wrote:So here’s something from Hawaii that may make you chuckle, or shock you, or make you mad.


How about make us jealous! I'm still not tempted to strip off here, we may make 60 F today if we're lucky. Still, the grass is growing and I'm watching for my seed germination and potatoes sprouting, life is good
 
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I might try if my yard isn't fenceless! I garden a lot since late winter now I look like a tapir. Need more even sun tan.
 
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Once again, the neighbors saw me. Good music from the ear buds.
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Ok folks, who’s going buff the garden tomorrow?  Anybody besides this old lady——me?
 
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Reminds me of a Ruth Stout story…the road has a good view of my garden.

There should be a World Garden in Clothes You Made day too. First Saturday in Sept. maybe?

Or perhaps that is the second option where it’s too cold/visible.
 
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Su Ba wrote:Ok folks, who’s going buff the garden tomorrow?  Anybody besides this old lady——me?



I would have, but it's only 55°F out there, and that would wreak havock on my health.
 
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I guess I'll have to wait till dark so the neighbors don't see, and go pick some weeds tonight!
 
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let me just say...'been there, done that' 🙃
...back in the early seventies we were in various states of clothlessness every summer in the garden...including long treks to the river to swim....at the time we were living in a cabin all tucked into a hollow up a trail with no vehicle access.
It became a challenge for the locals to catch 'them hippies' naked 🫤


here's the other gardening naked thread🌸
https://permies.com/t/111798/World-Naked-Gardening-Day#914471
 
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