 and talk to the plants and sing and dance with them a little bit. You don't sing and dance with your plants. If you are a gardener, I think you should be. They they do like music and they like being talked to. So it doesn't matter how insane my neighbors think I am. They know that every spring and summer I'm out in the front yard doing my shenanigans with the garden and everything is coming along very, very nicely.