Importance of Gardening at Home

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Gardens have a universal appeal. They brighten a dismal world. What is the importance of gardening at home and how can it help the environment? Discover the importance of gardening to the world.

Gardening is good for your health, your soil, and wildlife. It’s a great way to reduce stress, set goals, and learn to nurture something. It’s also a great way to become more sustainable at home.

✔Here’s a link to a great vegetable garden planner you can print right out and use at home! So cute!

Importance of gardening

Gardening is a great hobby that you can do season after season for years. Old people can garden, young people can garden, even young toddlers can garden. You can garden indoors, outdoors, in hanging baskets, pots, buckets, tubs, raised beds, or in the ground. It’s a versatile hobby and a healthy one. Check out these superfoods you can grow right at home.

Exposure to sunlight gives you vitamin D which is good for muscles, teeth, and bones. Working in a garden is a wonderful exercise with low impact. It reduces the risk of dementia as well. It’s a good treatment for depression and anxiety as well. Just this one is a huge reason for gardening at home for me.

There are specific bacteria in soil that can increase levels of serotonin in the human brain. This chemical is responsible for feelings of well-being or happiness.

Gardens represent the natural environment. Plants take in carbon and release oxygen. The roots of plants stabilize soil and filter water. The garden is a great way to coax bees and other pollinators into your life and yard. These pollinators help your garden to flourish!

Gardening at home is important for nutrition, your wallet, and more importantly environmental impact. Your diet, when you grow part of it yourself becomes more sustainable. There’s no packaging, no delivery, no nothing, it’s just right there.

If you have a green thumb, you’ll save more money than you can imagine growing your own food. And it will be fresher and healthier as well.

Teaching your children to nurture a garden is full of great lessons as well.

Garden at home

You can garden organically for personal health reasons as well as environmental reasons. It’s the best option for gardening. But companies that grow poisonous gardening chemicals don’t want people to do it, so it’s not as popular as it should be.

Pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers have been linked to cancer, birth defects, Parkinson’s, miscarriages and infertility, damaged brain function, autism, and depression among other things.

People seldom realize that they are exposed to a far greater toxic load in their food supply than what labs test for as well as the term safety on chemical labels being misleading to the public.

Chronic stress is one of the biggest killers we face. It suppresses the immune system, causes heart disease and weight gain as well as other problems. But nature, fresh air, and sunshine can combat stress in a big way.

Pesticides and chemical fertilizers are thought to decrease nutrients available in foods grown using them. This affects all species. Fourteen million fish and 67 million birds are killed each year from pesticide runoff.

Planting monocrops or lots of the same thing together attract more pests, allows disease and fungus to spread, and causes other problems in the garden. Companion planting and intercropping can solve many garden problems before they start.

Companies like Monsanto and Miracle-Gro don’t make millions when gardeners share seeds they collected. They also don’t benefit from composting and companion planting. So they make sure that organic gardening at home is not the success it should be.

There are several ways you can do bee friendly gardening at home. If we support the bees, the bees keep giving life to our planet.

• Avoid pesticides. Pesticides don’t discriminate, they kill pollinators too.
• Create a water source in your yard. Honey bees need water to dilute honey for their young and to cool their hive.
• Plant pollinator friendly plants. Make sure to use natives to your area. Choose a variety of colors. And choose plants that flower at different times of the year.

An urban garden is a green space inside a city. It can be container gardens, community gardens, indoor gardening, guerilla gardening, and green roof gardens.

Nature has so many benefits. It decreases pollution, cleans the air and water, makes spaces for wildlife, cools down the environment, and increases emotional well-being.

Creating an urban oasis is easy, just grab some dirt and get to planting!

A rooftop garden is a collection of greenery planted on top of a man made structure. There are lots of reasons to add a roof top garden to your building. You can save money, reduce roof maintenance, and increase your energy efficiency.

Rooftop gardens add a beautiful space, lower energy costs, cool down the area, and look gorgeous! They help with stormwater management by collecting and filtering water. This prevents an overflow of polluted water from entering the drainage systems. It also protects the roof from the elements that degrade it over time.

No matter how small your balcony is, you can garden at home on it! It’s super simple! You can choose rolling planters or planters on casters that can be moved around or brought inside during a freeze. Container gardening can be done in any type of container. Just poke some drainage holes and you got land!

You can also use a plastic shoe organizer to create a balcony garden. Just fill each space with soil and plant away. You can grow lettuce, herbs, radishes, and more in a little shoe organizer garden. Just hang in on the wall or door and there you go!

A tabletop garden is another idea. They are great for people with limited mobility as well. Check out different tabletop gardens you can buy online.

You could also consider running planting boxes along your balcony railing and planting in them. It will add some color and some snacks to your relaxing space. And don’t forget hanging baskets for your balcony garden. They are great for planting in as well. It’s a great idea if you don’t have any floor space to use.

Just remember, to garden most things you need 6 or more hours of sunlight per day, access to water, and a space to put your dirt. You can recycle containers, buy pots, build a frame and fill the whole thing with dirt, or whatever you like to do to turn your little balcony (or big one) into a growing space.

Benefits of school gardening for students

There are so many wonderful benefits to growing gardens with kids. Check out how we built our preschool garden on the cheap and what to do if you’re a beginning gardener here.