8 Gardening Hobbies People Proudly Showed Off, From Growing McDonald’s Tomatoes to Giant Marigolds

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10/09/2026
8 Gardening Hobbies People Proudly Showed Off, From Growing McDonald’s Tomatoes to Giant Marigolds

I was never a gardening person and honestly never had any interest in trying it. Until someone gave me a small peace lily for Secret Santa. It looked so fragile that I was convinced it wouldn’t last a week. I had zero idea how to care for it. I started reading Reddit threads, looking up wikiHow guides, and watching gardening YouTube videos. Somehow, it survived!
A few months later, I noticed new flowers starting to bloom, and it felt like a serious achievement that made me unbelievably happy. This was a few years ago. That one little plant somehow gave me the confidence to keep gardening. The peace lily is huge now, and I have an entire collection of plants covering my balcony. It’s my happy place.

Gardening doesn’t always go according to plan. Sometimes a tiny $2 plant turns into something you can’t stop taking pictures of. And other times your wisdom grows along with your garden. Here are some gardening wins people shared on the internet.

I took the seeds out of my wife’s Big Mac and grew McDonald’s tomatoes this year.

Fall is the best time for dahlias!

My first pumpkin of the year! (Galeux d’eysines)

Dude, my marigolds are huge this year. I was gone for a week and came home to these chonkers in my garden. They’re the biggest I’ve grown!

I built an orchid garden from scratch. 4 years. Loved it like my own child. Then my MIL came to stay with us for a few months, and suddenly my orchids started wilting. I couldn’t figure out what was happening.
Then one night I woke up and saw a light outside. I looked through the window and saw my MIL sneaking into the garden with a torch. I went numb when I saw she was holding a spray bottle in another hand. I ran outside and asked what she was doing. She looked completely caught and said, “I’m helping you.”
Turns out she’d decided my orchids looked thirsty and had been spraying them every night with a strong homemade mixture of vinegar and water she found online. She had been spraying the leaves and soil, thinking it would help them.
I nearly cried. She was trying to help me while unknowingly slowly damaging them. I told her that orchids are very dramatic about their drinks, and she felt so bad that she apologized immediately.
A few weeks later, after I stopped the vinegar and went back to their normal care, the orchids started recovering. My MIL still isn’t allowed to water them, but she does sit in the garden every morning and admire them. She also proudly tells everyone they’re “our” orchids now. I’m choosing to let her have that one.

Bright Side

I grew and ate my first ever dragon fruit.

Late summer in the garden

My garden gave me carrots this year. Everything pretty much failed, but carrots were a success!

This was a tiny clematis that I bought for $2.

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