World Naked Gardening Day is Tomorrow and This is One You Should Do

IT'S THAT TIME of year again... first Saturday in May is tomorrow... and that means...you guessed it: World Naked Gardening Day.

This one is fun.  Doesn't matter what your political stripes are.  Doesn't matter if you are a dues-paying nudist or even call yourself a nudist.  Doesn't matter your age. Your gender. Or anything else. You, your spouse, your family can celebrate.  And if the pets lend a hand with digging a hole or two, well they're already naked.

It's about doing something good for the earth while celebrating the act of gardening in the state that the first gardeners---Adam and Eve---did it: sans clothes.

Now we know that the weather may not cooperate for some of you.  Or that you have nosy neighbors and not enough non-offense fencing to avoid causing an "incident."  But even if you have to confine your birthday suit work to indoors you can "garden."  Water your plants naked.  Plant some seedlings. Read up for tips online while starkers.

Equally important, help spread some awareness.  You could post a Twitter tweet.  Or do what the Platypus is planning to do: visit a few garden shops making small purchases of plants (inexpensive bright annuals), soil, or plant food.  Then casually mention that it is World Naked Gardening Day and what brought you to them for business.

We also plan to watch the comic strips... in the past there have been brief "homages" to "going outside to do some gardening," or talk about spring planting that seems to be an oh-so-very-very subtle nod to us that more folks recognize the occasion each year.

There's a saying, "photos or it didn't happen.We'll leave that up to your discretion on World Naked Gardening Day.