(gentle guitar plays)
- Hooray!
It's National Gardening Day!
(cheering)
National Gardening Day on April 14th
is a day of encouragement, a day created to
give gardeners a shove and a shovel
so they can begin their gardening journey.
Weather permitting, gardening has always been
an endearing task for patient lovers of the great outdoors!
A good gardener plans years ahead as they shape
the nature that surrounds them, according to
their vision and needs.
With National Gardening Day arriving during spring,
it's a great chance for you to warm up your green thumb
and get planting and preparing for this summer!
Your garden is your own unique space, use this day
to get out there and make the most of it!
National Gardening Day was founded by Cool Springs Press
in 2018, to celebrate the hobby of gardening
and to encourage gardeners to share their expert knowledge.
The first gardeners in the United States
were essentially harvesters.
In the 17th and 18th century,
those lucky enough to own land, and consequently a garden,
would try to use it to make money
by harvesting whatever crops were suitable.
Home gardening started to become a leisure activity
in the 1800s as villages grew bigger
and mass produce was beginning.
- [Deeper Voice] Oh, no!
The last 150 years have seen gardens become an increasingly
social space, with methods of caring for them
evolving to provide gardeners with a much increased body
of knowledge and equipment from which to garden with.
Did you know that in the 1940s,
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt encouraged every
household to fight food shortages with a home garden.
The earliest known decorative gardens go
all the way back to Ancient Egypt.
One of the great benefits of gardening is the exercise
that we get; the planting, clearing and weeding
all involve a fair bit of stretching
and is sure to get your heart rate going!
Gardening is also known to relieve stress
and to help with mental health.
Happy National Gardening Day, everyone!
Thank you for listening today, my name is Kevin,
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