I’m a chef by trade and I grow a lot of vegetables and herbs for my own personal use. I’ve been doing it most of my life and I can honestly say I never feel more a part of nature or connected to the earth than when I’m working naked in my garden.
I've seen a folklore from Pennsylvania that to make it rain, dig a hole in the ground, take off all of your clothes, walk around the hole seven times backwards and then urinate in the hole. Results may vary.
John Jeavons recommends planting at the dark of the Moon. This is when the highest tides are, with the Sun pulling on us from one direction, and the Moon from its opposite. I forget whether Jeavons also recommends this especially for small seeds, or I made it up, but small objects have more surface area proportional to volume. The microclimate ideas are good, and maybe sensitivity in general argue for naked gardening. The pleasure of nudity would remove a lot of what is tedious about gardening. We have a lot of plants in the ground every year, but being in the inner city, we can't be nude (yet).
I’m very much appreciating the research that went into this article! Terrific job!
There’s a naked gardening scene in the Will Forest novel Skinners, as I recall, having to do with seeds hidden on the persons of those escaping slavery during the colonial years of the Caribbean...
I am fortunate to be able to do most of my gardening and watering naked. Pretty much any day of the year for me is World Naked Gardening Day - as I live in a climate where the garden needs tending year around. My neighbors are very tolerant of my nudity - and nudity is perfectly legal anywhere on private property.
I have been naked gardening most of my adult life, My gardens are designed to be enjoyed nude
I’m a chef by trade and I grow a lot of vegetables and herbs for my own personal use. I’ve been doing it most of my life and I can honestly say I never feel more a part of nature or connected to the earth than when I’m working naked in my garden.
I've seen a folklore from Pennsylvania that to make it rain, dig a hole in the ground, take off all of your clothes, walk around the hole seven times backwards and then urinate in the hole. Results may vary.
John Jeavons recommends planting at the dark of the Moon. This is when the highest tides are, with the Sun pulling on us from one direction, and the Moon from its opposite. I forget whether Jeavons also recommends this especially for small seeds, or I made it up, but small objects have more surface area proportional to volume. The microclimate ideas are good, and maybe sensitivity in general argue for naked gardening. The pleasure of nudity would remove a lot of what is tedious about gardening. We have a lot of plants in the ground every year, but being in the inner city, we can't be nude (yet).
I’m very much appreciating the research that went into this article! Terrific job!
There’s a naked gardening scene in the Will Forest novel Skinners, as I recall, having to do with seeds hidden on the persons of those escaping slavery during the colonial years of the Caribbean...
I am fortunate to be able to do most of my gardening and watering naked. Pretty much any day of the year for me is World Naked Gardening Day - as I live in a climate where the garden needs tending year around. My neighbors are very tolerant of my nudity - and nudity is perfectly legal anywhere on private property.