Calories Burned by Garden Task

[NJCher]

Here are some examples of different gardening activities and how many calories they burn if done for 30 minutes. The figures are based on a 150-pound person.

* Clearing land, wheelbarrow chores: 170

* Digging, spading, composting: 170

* Gardening with heavy power tools, tilling: 205

* Mowing lawn, riding mower: 85

* Mowing lawn, walking with hand mower: 205

* Mowing lawn, walking with power mower: 188

* Picking fruits or vegetables, moderate effort: 102

* Planting seedlings, shrubs, trees: 153

* Weeding, cultivating garden: 153

* Raking lawn: 147

* Walking/standing picking flowers: 102

* Watering while walking or standing: 51

* Carrying, loading or stacking wood: 170

* Trimming shrubs or trees, power cutter: 119

* Trimming shrubs or trees, manual cutter: 153

* Walking applying fertilizer, seeding lawn: 85

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[Melissa G]

1. nice list! n/t

[bleedingheart]

2. my husband is chuckling over the list...

before our soil was amended...it took almost an hour to dig 1 hole for one tree....that included using pick axes to break up old roots and clay...I wonder how many calories in that...

luckily now...it doesn't take so long...

[politicat]

3. sneaking extra zucchini into neighbor's mail box: 75

Running from the buckshot that results: 450

Thinking up new ways to disguise an over production of squish: 49 calories
Implementing Zucchini-crete for the front walk way : 900 calories a day

[dcfirefighter]

4. Is there a recipe for cuce-crete? nt