gardening is not gay… unless werty does it

Werty said "I get questioned about my sexuality because I keep a garden in the summer." Who in this world equates gardening with homosexuality? is gardening effeminate? I love gardening; I used to keep a herb garden years ago, and now that I've got a good sized back yard, I'm making ambitious plans for a huge 2007 crop growing anything I can find seeds for. Must-haves include cherry tomatoes, red peppers, pumpkins, raspberries, beans, lettuce, garlic, onion, chives, thyme, rhubarb. OK, I'll admit that most of the avid gardeners I know are women. But I don't think that's because there is anything inherently feminine about growing plants. I approach gardening like it's a smaller-scale, urban version of farming. Let's look at it from a Freudian point of view. Do you: A) foster exotic annuals, gestating them inside in early spring, bring them out after the last frost, then care for and nurture the plants throughout the summer? B) Thrust an overabundance of seed and fertilizers into the welcoming earth, wait to see if something sprouts, then maintain the crop using unnecessarily large tools? I think gardening is like anything else. you can make it as macho or gay as you want it to be. So Werty, why do people think your gardening is gay? It depends on the kind of gardening you're doing. Does your garden look like this? ... now that's a gay garden. Doing research for this post looking for images, I found that "the Gay Gardener" advocates artificial grass.