LSU AgCenter
What do you do with time on your hands? Survey says: gardening. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced Louisiana and the rest of the nation into a quarantine scenario in the spring of 2020, many people found themselves with extra time on their hands.
In the 2018 National Garden Survey conducted by Garden Research, 12 million Americans said, “I’m too busy to have much time for gardening.” With gyms, entertainment venues and restaurants closed and people no longer having to commute to work, a surplus of time remained.