There’s something primal about growing your own food. Fresh from the fruits of your labor, garden veggies are just juicy, delicious, and full of sunshine. Perhaps it’s because they lack the weird factory-farm element, but it’s also certainly because they were loved at every stage of their growth. Plants that are nurtured and loved from seed to sprout tend to reward their thorough gardeners. 

At least, if you have a green thumb, you’ve likely experienced this type of god-like prowess with your own yard. 

It’s summertime so gardeners are coming out of their hibernation tunnels and shielding their eyes from the strengthening sun. As their homemade compost happily rots and their seedlings start to push through the topsoil, every gardener’s wildest dreams come true: Tomato season. So if you’re a happy gardener who’s thrilled to be back outside with your hands in the soil, scroll onward to enjoy this flowering collection of gardening memes that are sure to give you a boost of home-grown serotonin.