I have to laugh. When I read this, I can remember and sometimes still see the women doing their gardening and bent over a flowerbed in shorts, and some even in a summer dress. I ride past and shake my head with a giggle. That bottom is so tempting is my first thought.

A cute piece, just like Hermione herself.

LOL. Even gardening suddenly becomes interesting.

Bendover - What a lovely compliment; how very sweet of you.

Miss_Naughty - I hope it's made you long for a trowel of your own.

Hermione, I love your spanking article in Wellred Weekly. One can truly say, a FLOWERING MASTERPIECE. FUN ON A BUM.

This excellent piece puts a whole new complexion on the exercise of gardening - fertile ground indeed! I do hope there are a couple of gaps in your hedge, Hermione. I loved it, thanks!

This is a hoot, spanking as a gardening pastime. Do be careful and watch for stinging bees and hornets, nasty mosquitoes, brutal black flies and horror of horrors a sunburn in places on your body never before exposed to the unforgiving spring sunshine. You rosearians who spray and prune this time of year can attest to the painful nature of those brutal canes- don't get your heartbeat up, they have thorns, lovelies. Take care with stinging nettles. Take care, readers, take care in the garden.
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I can report that I have tried using runner beans as an impromptu spanking implement and they failed miserably :( I shall report back later in the year on the suitability of rhubarb.

A cucumber has possibilities, but probably to the detriment of its edibility.

Garden ponds also have potential if either the bottom or the implement is dipped in them before contact occurs. Make sure no unfortunate wildlife is caught in between, though.

Not much chance of sunburn around these parts! It's rained all day long.

An entertaining piece by Hermione. Our garden is thoroughly overlooked, so little prospect of any OTK fun here.

I normally try to stay away from gardens for various reasons, but in this article you have given reasons for considering the start of a new career...LOL

I would think anyplace can be used for spanking but the ideas here place a garden near the top of the list for locations.

Thanks for the laugh and a new way to get some spanked,...hmmm...is there a story in this?

I totally forgot about stinging nettles! I wrote a post last year about discovering them the hard way in the vegetable bed. I wouldn't recommend them to any but the bravest bottoms.

Just rushed down to my garden centre but sadly .......

Enjoyed the article very much Hermione!

Fun article...I shall be looking at the ripe plump red tomatoes in my garden with more appreciation today.

ohhhh and the peaches....has anyone else noticed how a ripe peach has an uncanny resemblance of a bared bottom? or do I just need to get my eye glasses adjusted?

I'm sure I saw this or something very similar on Gardener's World on the BBC recently. Sound and sensible advice, which rather grows on one the more one reads. I can recommend apple tree branches, at the right time of year, as exceedingly wicked switches, solid but flexible.

Yes, I was expecting to see a reference to stinging nettles, but I see you've been reminded about them.

I'm afraid that, as a very reluctant gardener, my first association is with a story in 'Janus' long ago about girls in a reformatory school who were set to work to spend the afternoon weeding. One, the local ''toughie', callled Elaine, who always ensured that she got the most and hardest thrashings in order to impress her rivals, deliberately spent the whole session idling away her time so that at the end she had pulled up no weeds at all. With the inevitably severe consequences! Now _that_ would make gardening more interesting...!

And of course working outside, when there are plenty of bushes and trees to be pruned for switches. Be a real hazard for women who like to garden in short shorts if they had someone around who believed in the oldfashioned rural South discipline of a "good switching on the naked legs". And a pair of shorts is much easier to pull down than jeans or overalls if the target is a bottom