Historic snowfalls, record-setting cold snaps and droughts followed by drenchings and mudslides may have soured many spirits during the winter months, USA Today reported. But no more. The most therapeutic time of year is arriving in all its glory: spring garden season.
Millions of garden junkies — three out of four Americans garden, the National Garden Association said — are fleeing the indoors and finding bliss outside with shovels and pruners in tow.
Susan Harris of Takoma Park, Md., who weathered the “snowpocalypse” that kept the Washington, D.C., area under piles of snow for months, is among the Americans who are ready to get back to the garden.
“It was the longest period of time in my life when I haven't been able to garden,” Harris said. “It's usually just two or three weeks when we can't garden here. This was months.”
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