Dear Amy: You answered a letter from a "naturist" in your column and made some disparaging comments about gardening in the buff. Actually, Amy, nude gardening is an extremely enjoyable exercise, something my wife and I have been doing for more than 50 years. There is a formal "World Naked Gardening Day" each year in the first part of May. Our garden is beautiful. A Happy Gardener, Richmond, Calif.
Dear Gardener: Responding to this letter, I made a comment about nude gardening and hedge trimmers. Based on the responses to this letter, however, many people enjoy nude gardening, despite what I perceive as its obvious risks.
And I thought I was doing something gardening in my jammies! I wonder if I started a "World Pajama Gardening Day" would others join me? The next World Naked Gardening Day (co-founded by Mark Storey, the gentleman in the picture) is May 3, 2008. I know I'm marking my calendar! :-)
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Apparently Mark Storey doesn't garden where there are deer flies, else he'd be putting it all on instead of taking it all off. I used to wear long sleeves and a veiled turkey-hunter's cap when I worked outside in spring in the Northeast.
I just hope for the neighbors' sake that Storey bends at the knees, not the waist, when he pulls weeds.
Hmm! My own garden is very small, but even so, I don't think my neighbors would appreciate my wiggles and jiggles as I weed, water, or watch my little blooms grow.
Geez, forget about the neighbors. My hands and feet get rough and scratched if I work without gloves and sneakers. I don't want any of the rest of me ending up like that! But it does give Crabtree & Evelyn room for new products for their Gardener's line. :-)
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