The sense of accomplishment after growing your first ripe tomato or cucumber is second to none.

It may even rival the joy yiayia and pappou get sending you home with a plastic bag filled to the brim with other fruits and vegetables that they have grown that season.

Lock down and COVID-19 restrictions have been tough for many and getting out into the garden can be a great way to relieve some stress and stay active.

READ MORE: Foraging Greek grandparents’ gardens for good health

We reached out to our loyal readers and asked them to share their garden snaps with the Neos Kosmos community and they did not disappoint!

Take a look through the gallery below and if you have any photos of your garden you would like featured below send them to mariannaa@neoskosmos.com.au

Athanasios Antoniou in front of his mega tomato patch. These tomatoes are a whopping 2 and a half metres tall in which he has been growing every season from the time he had migrated to Australia, 56 years ago Photo: Supplied

Con Cocotis sizing up and pruning the Olive tree Photo: Supplied

90 year old Dimitrios Kargas from Northcote standing among his tomato plants Photo: Supplied

Christina Banos says that Yiayia Triantafilia lives on her own and her garden is her happy place Photo: Supplied

Christina Banos sent through this photo of her yiayia Triantafilia in her garden. She grows tomatoes, zucchini, spinach, cucumber, radishes and lots of herbs along with various fruits Photo: Supplied

83 year old Theo Zafirakos stands proudly in his veggie garden Photo: Supplied

Some more goodies from Mr Zafirakos' garden Photo: Supplied

Mr Zafirakos has cultivated many different vegetable varieties around the perimeter of his backyard Photo: Supplied

For something a little different, Dimitra Petropoulos invested in a vegepod this lock down. She planted the seedlings on 1 June and is currently enjoying eating lettuce, silver beet and spring onion Photo: Supplied

George Tsagouris with his lovely olive tree in the background Photo: Supplied

Along with fruits, 79 year old Sofia also has over 100 orchid plants Photo: Supplied

Sofia and Vasilios Tsionis in their garden where they grow various vegetables including tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, pumpkin and beetroot Photo: Supplied

93 year old Peter Koulaxizellis from Preston in the garden he tends to daily Photo: Supplied

Arthur with grandson Athan. His son Dennis says each year and all year round he continues to provide the family the best produce Photo: Supplied

84 year old Arthur of Noble Park landed in Melbourne 1960 Photo: Supplied

Yiayia Efi and Pappou Con's lush garden Photo: Supplied

Nikoll King's Pappou Petros and his garden in Coburg. Nikoll says "Our family always benefited from the seemingly never ending supply of tomatoes, eggplants, parsley and lemons" Photo: Supplied

Eleni Dimitropoulos sent this photo of her mother Vasiliki's garden, with their homemade shade contraption Photo: Supplied

George Rerakis continues tending to his garden into his nineties Photo: Supplied

George Rerakis adds the Cretan touch, wearing the sariki to keep away the the flies Photo: Supplied