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Has gardening technology we use today veering us off the real meaning of gardening?

I believe so because the point of gardening is to spend a day outside with nature; free from the busy stressful world. Its about getting your hands a little dirty and the good feeling that you have planted life in your very backyard. It's getting that feeling inside yourself that "Hey, I planted this beautiful garden all myself". Its also about being physically and mentally fit. But these days new tools have been made to make gardening less of a "birden". There are tools that allow you to pluck weeds with out bending down to do it yourself. There's also this thing where it rolls out onto the dirt with seeds in it so all you have to do is water it and watch the flowers grow. That's not really gardening at all; it's just buying your an already made garden where as you can plant yourself to have a custom made garden. As I've sais before, gardening is about getting yourself some self confidence and getting a little dirty. But these days the technologies are veering us off that real meaning

Public Comments

1. The old fashioned way is best
2. I agree with your concept of gardening. There have always been hucksters selling the latest and greatest new invention to make any task easier, thus freeing us up from the "drudgery." Some are genuine improvements like gardening tools that are designed for older gardeners to help ease the pain of arthritis when gardening, allowing them to keep up with their hobby. Others are just dumb. I've seen others ask about the roll out garden. These are not even new, I saw them thirty years ago. My favorite waste of money is the AeroGarden. While it seems like a neat idea, spending $150.00 to grow seven plants just doesn't seem very cost effective to me, but that's just my humble opinion.