define "gardening"

i imagine many people associate the term "gardening" with growing fruits and vegetables like potatoes...which i am growing this eason...

and corn ( although this is hopi blue which is a flint and intneded to be ground into corn meal ) which i have in the community gardens and the yard...

or tomatoes which are all over out there...

and a few sunflowers...

as well as beans...some of which are still blooming away and some of which i am saving for seed next year...fairly standard stuff...ant then there are any number of plants that are non-standard which i find of more interest...

the ancestor of that maize is blooming as well...

and it has silks like its descendant...if not as overtly visible they serve the same function...

and, a few days ago, i found some actual ears and seeds going on...

however...what caught my eye today as i was wandering around back there is that a few of those four corners potato blooms that had not fallen off the plants...

have become fruits...so now we have hopes of both tubers and seeds...gardening is going okay this season