Did anyone ever make fun of you for gardening?

[Meadowlark]

People do imply that gardening is serf's work. ...

No doubt about that...the expressed attitude about growing your own veggies "that's what the stores are for" is all too prevalent.

 

[Hedgeapple]

No. Everyone I know likes good food.

 

[redback]

No. Everyone I know likes good food.

The irony is that the "elite" do treasure the best food. Chefs have always collected the best ingredients they could find before starting to cook. Wild venison. asparagus and mushrooms are foraged while free range deer, pheasant and rabbits are hunted. Everything is untainted and as pure as they can find.
The king of England is famous for elevating the best organic gardeners with high praise. So, there are two worlds- the fast and fatty foods and the world of the foodies.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

For those above that write that you have been a victim of negative words about Gardening, all I can say is you hang with the wrong crowd.

 

[Ruderunner]

Seems it's often strangers doing that. No manners anymore.

 

[seohunter106]

Douchebags huh? That's rough. I grew up in the Bronx so gardening was not exactly a popular thing. Things would disappear though (quite often) and I'd freak out a little. I've always been a little out there so I guess most people just shook their heads, had pity and all that other good stuff bullies do. Years later I'm still gardening only now it's on a bigger scale. Different locations, always adapting to whatever life throws at me. But, no... to answer your question. Damn douchebags

 

[libby muller]

Only when happens to me - when people find me still gardening and its starting to get dark - and I ask them to hold the torch

My neighbors find me gardening in the dark, in the rain, and this summer I was caught
weeding with the sprinkler watering me. It was hot!

 

[libby muller]

I don't get made fun of so much as I'm misunderstood. When I moved here and started
gardening, the old lady across the street came over and watched me for a while, then said 'you work so hard, and you really have nothing to show for it.'
She should see my gardens now, 25 yrs later, taking up most of the front yard.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

No doubt about that...the expressed attitude about growing your own veggies "that's what the stores are for" is all too prevalent.

My mate David is not the gardening type, he started a successful motorcycle delivery business and has a tiny garden that is about 90% concrete. A few years ago I introduced him to growing potatoes in bags, "They taste so good, store potatoes taste of nothing." People can be converted, the bags are lined up on the concrete.

 

[redback]

My mate David is not the gardening type, he started a successful motorcycle delivery business

I was going to say that most of the non-gardeners are mechanics or petrol-heads of some sort. For some reason they have grown up thinking that lying flat on your back under a car is more fun than weeding. To be fair they're the ones who repair your lawn mowers.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I was going to say that most of the non-gardeners are mechanics or petrol-heads of some sort. For some reason they have grown up thinking that lying flat on your back under a car is more fun than weeding. To be fair they're the ones who repair your lawn mowers.

Definitely a mechanic / petrol head. His company, Chain-gang, was one of the very first motorcycle delivery companies, but he lines up the bags, with a shield in front to stop the sun overheating the roots, and waters them religiously.

 

[redback]

I've got a mate who would do gardening if only someone would invent a comprehensive gardening machine - one you could do fast corners on. lol.

 

[Ruderunner]

I was going to say that most of the non-gardeners are mechanics or petrol-heads of some sort. For some reason they have grown up thinking that lying flat on your back under a car is more fun than weeding. To be fair they're the ones who repair your lawn mowers.

Then there's folks like me who's both. Though I have lifts for auto repair.

 

[redback]

Then there's folks like me who's both.

You and every farmer.
I was watching the new breed of farmer on You Tube and one bloke had a tractor mounted with inoculant tank to water the plants in the front and an arrangement of discs and ploughs to plant the seed and cover it up, followed by a roller. The complete planting machine for intercropping into green manure.
Then there was the bloke who had temperature-controlled brewing silos full of lab serum - 12 of them - in one of his big sheds.
Hats off.

 

[Ruderunner]

No doubt about that...the expressed attitude about growing your own veggies "that's what the stores are for" is all too prevalent.

There's way too many people who think stores are the origin of food. These same people tend to believe electricity comes from a wall outlet, only vehicles use oil, and men can get pregnant.

Hard times make strong men, strong men make easy times, easy times make weak men, weak men make hard times.

That said, there's plenty of foods we don't bother growing because it's more practical to buy it. Meat of course but various vegetables that we don't consume much of.