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the slow-motion war against entropy you somehow pay to fight on your knees
means The practice of cultivating and tending plants—flowers, vegetables, shrubs—in a plot of ground or containers, including the weeding, watering, and pruning that keep it alive.
from From "garden," which entered English via Old North French "gardin," itself rooted in a Germanic word for an enclosure (a cousin of "yard" and the "-gard" in words like Asgard). At its heart sits the idea of a fenced, protected space—a guarded patch of earth set apart from the wild. The "-ing" simply turns that enclosure into an ongoing act: the work of making and keeping the garden.
- oldest hobby
- Humans gardened before they invented the wheel
- dirt drug
- Soil bacteria boost serotonin like a mild antidepressant
- calorie burn
- Heavy yard work rivals a gym session
- ancient flex
- Babylon's hanging gardens were a wonder of the world
- weed truth
- A weed is just a plant in the wrong place
victory garden — wwii home vegetable gardens planted by 20 million americans to support food rationing, 1941-1945
versailles potager — louis xiv's 9-acre kitchen garden at palace of versailles, france, producing fruit and vegetables for the court since 1678
babylon hanging gardens — one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, allegedly built by nebuchadnezzar ii in ancient iraq around 600 bce