Yes, if you wear gloves. Gardening is a great low-stress, low-impact activity, James says, but bare hands may expose you to fetus-threatening toxoplasmosis, a virus transmitted by outdoor cats using your garden bed as a litter box. If you don’t wash hands well after being outside, you can catch it via hand-to-mouth contact. The same goes indoors. Ask others to scoop the kitty litter, or get an automatic cat box — which gives you one less task to bend over for, too.
Be sure to protect your skin from the sun and avoid using fertilizers and pesticides while gardening.
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