Aug 31, 2021 to Sep 02, 2021
If you like planting and caring for a garden, you are not alone. According to a survey of 1,000 Americans ages 18 and older, 64%, or roughly two-thirds of Americans, said they took up gardening as a hobby during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who knew?
The survey was conducted by Trees.com with online survey platform Pollfish. The survey found that not only is gardening helping people pass the time, the hobby is also having a profound impact on people’s mental and physical health during this stressful time.
A review of data from Google Trends reinforces how much gardening interest increased as normal routines were upended by shutdown orders and transmission fears in March and April of 2020. Searches for “planting” and “plants” started increasing during the week of March 22, 2020, 10 days after the federal government declared COVID-19 a national emergency, and many states and cities were implementing stay-at-home orders to help halt the spread of the disease.