Gardening is a peaceful past-time. It's said to be psychologically good for you, too. Today, you'll read about how gardening can help you shed pounds, as well. Recently we told you that many chores can burn calories -- like shoveling snow, washing windows and painting. Now that spring is here, we add these. Here's what a 180-pound person burns with every 30 minutes of the following: Clearing and digging burns 200 calories. Add heavy power tools (like those for tilling) and it jumps to 243. Same goes for using a manual push mower. Planting trees and trimming shrubs burns 182, as does laying sod and pulling weeds. Raking and bagging leaves burns 164 calories. Plant some seedlings and you'll shed 163 calories. Even watering your lawn or garden burns 61. For more tips, visit our Web site at onthehouse.com. And that's the On The House tip for today.