NUDE GARDENERS
Return to DiscussionsThere is something really nice about Nude Gardening, however how many of us really get the chance? Great if you live in the middle of nowhere but not so easy in suberbia or even worse, in town or a flat. Whilst living in suberbia so almost impossible, fortunately I also have a nice caravan with some garden at the Naturist Club where I am a member, so absolutely perfect to do NUDE GARDENING whenever, so if you are finding it diffiult to do and enjoy the lovely world of gardening, I would suggest you try and do what I do......it works perfectly.
I get to garden nude all the time, although there are times when some cover from the sun requires me to wear a shirt or I'd get seriously singed on the shoulders and back and I don't care for tending that burnt garden. I don't count shoes and a hat as clothes because they have their purpose as well.
I feel bad for gardeners who never get the chance to 'become one with nature' by getting really dirty in the soil by tending it bare, and then the added pleasures from eating and viewing and smelling things right out of the ground produced with their own hands. If you've never plopped your bare butt right on a pile of freshly turned soil and weeded your bed, that's a big shame and I hope you can find a way to make it happen.
For those in suburbia or even living in the cityscape, one must get inventive to get gardening in their lives, and even more challenging to get it while bare. The only suggestions I have for city dwellers besides moving would include getting the building you live in to allow rooftop planting, container gardening on your balcony if you's so lucky to have one of those, or looking for and getting permission to plant on a close by available vacant lot with dirt where you'd feel confident no one would steal your produce (not just the two-legged animals since animals of every sort tend to plague any garden, anywhere) - being sure to get a complete soil test if you are growing eatables to avoid all the junk that that unknown soil might have hidden in it like heavy metals from pollution and Round-up (that shit is awful for the environment AND you). Heavy metal is good for plants if we're talking about music, by the way. But for some reason my veggies like Led Zeppelin and the flowers much prefer classical -- go figure!
These suggestions made, only the first two avenues for the city would be doable nude and only under certain circumstances. You could garden your balcony plants only at night and only with the light coming from your apartment, possibly still titillating the neighbors by your silhouette if they're right across the way or using their binoculars from a higher floor. And you know those fuckers will pull out those binoculars and even take pictures if they can. City life takes away a lot of your privacy and a portion of your soul. But backing away from that topic, a rooftop garden would be 'nude-ably tend-able' only if there are no taller buildings near yours and you're reasonably assured that no one from your building can pop out the rooftop access door on you unannounced. It's going to extreme I know, but installing a jingly bell on the door that rings if someone comes through it might work, so you have at least a moment to slip something on before they see you in your nature-filled place and in your natural state. If the other tenants and the building manager know you and won't be offended, putting a sign on the inside of the door stating that "Nudity may be witnessed beyond this point", it might somewhat indemnify you. Not that it wouldn't also prompt some to come up to gawk at your beautiful eggplants....
Suburban dwellers have only a few options, like tall fencing or growing hedges that can sometimes take years to fully clothe one's backyard naked gardening pursuits. Being honest with your neighbors is always a better policy if you can find the guts or opportune time to talk to them, but given the local municipal regulations concerning bareness, even if you own the land your home is on, being nude there, essentially in public, can cause lots of legal problems. Inquire and do the research before you strip down and find out the hard way that you're breaking the law.
I keep visualizing this comical scene of someone trying to be a nude gardener by doing it at night with a headlamp on. But nighttime gardening is just nuts because it takes away the whole "sun on the whole of one's self" aspect that is a big part of the reason for the activity to start with. If it's all you've got, go for it. If you have the opportunity, get the heck moved out of that idiocy and start a farm!
I get to garden nude all the time, although there are times when some cover from the sun requires me to wear a shirt or I'd get seriously singed on the shoulders and back and I don't care for tending that burnt garden.
Actually, a spf 30 or higher gives more sun protection than a shirt. I remember one day when I wore a white t shirt and used sunscreen on my arms. By the end of the day, my forearms were lighter than my chest, shoulders and back!