Sure…we should all be doing more exercise that we probably make time for but do we really need to kill ourselves in the process?

Hanna wrote a post this week discussing the merits of laboring in the garden and that clever researchers had found a nexus between gardening and our state of wellbeing. (We can all join the chorus – *DUH!*)
But what happens when our gardening activity borders on the ridiculous and we actually make more work for ourselves? My own puritanical philosophies often find me mulching the prunings with a pair of secateurs rather than using a powered mulcher. Or is that just because I’m too tight to hire or buy one?

Barbara Damrosch, from the Washington Post, wrote a good article also discussing how we often make work for ourselves when we could just work a tad smarter.

I’m not always the smartest worker and would much rather do things myself than employ the use of machinery, however we did make one intelligent decision when we first set about our garden design. A heap of sand needed to be moved from our backyard so that we could sink it so rather than dig this out (it would have taken several weekends) we hired a bobcat to do it. An hour later it was all done. The best $100 I’ve ever spent.

What intelligent choices have you or do you make in your garden?