GARDENING - USES AND SUGGESTIONS

Tress and plants are an important part of the environment which we live in. The art of growing plants or trees and taking good care of them is considered as Gardening. Planting the seeds is really a simple process as it only needs a desire and a small space. But the hardest part is nurturing them. People grow plants for several reasons. This post clearly gives an insight to gardening and some tips and suggestions for the people who are willing to take up gardening.

CONTENTS

• Why Gardening?
• Uses of Gardening
• Advancements in Gardening – Terrace Gardening
• Suggestions for Gardeners
• Conclusion

Why Gardening?
 A young tree captures about 13 pounds or 5.9 kilograms of Carbon dioxide per year on an average. Clearly, we are releasing more and more amount of Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is certainly our duty to neutralise the harm that we have caused. Also, it is indeed a great hobby for any student to take up. There are several positive effects of growing plants.

USES OF GARDENING
Gardening gifts us all with several advantages. Some uses of gardening are listed as follows.

Taste your own fruits
With gardening, you can eat what you sow. So, there is no need of standing in a long queue in a super market to purchase. You can sow whichever fruits or veggies you want in your own Garden and take it completely by yourself after a certain period. Thus, you can save a part of your shopping time and money. 

Partner for relieving Stress
Gardening makes your mind free. It is considered as one of the best stress relievers. Seeing and admiring green grass makes your mind free from negative thoughts. Also, it is proved that gardening reduces the cause of Dementia (a disease which may lead to memory loss) upto 35% thus having a positive impact in our brain.

Satisfaction on feeding the nature
Growing plants which produce beautiful flowers and fruits normally attracts animals like squirrels, insects like bees and birds like sparrows etc. They feed on the nectar from the flowers and fruits. This gives satisfaction to all the nature enthusiasts and nature lovers.

Keeps your fields pest free
Gardening attracts many birds such as Sparrows, Hummingbirds etc. to visit your garden and these birds feed on the insects roaming around your surroundings and keeps your fields pest free.

Helps making small scale business
You may also sell your productivity to the retailers. Your own yield has a higher preference in the market which gives you some money on a small scale.

Chemical-free and safe
With gardening, you’ll know the compounds which are added to your trees or plants. It will be free from toxic pesticides and toxic fertilizers. 

   These are some of the uses on taking up gardening.

Advancements in Gardening
Most people do not choose gardening as they think that it can be practised only if we have an individual field. But the recent developments have made it possible to take up gardening even in a small house. Here’s a small example or suggestion to people who want to take up gardening in the terrace. 

Terrace Gardening:
To make your house more beautiful and attractive terrace gardening helps a lot, terrace gardening should be set up in the balcony or in a roof top of a building. Terrace gardening can be used both decorative and productive. Terrace gardening is quite easy method to grow plants. Plants that yield flowers are really helpful for making your house beautiful that everyone gets attracted by seeing your house. It also gives a pleasant visit to the visitors of your house. Some plants like Jasmine, Rose Mary gives you pleasant smell in your house. Secondly, some vegetable plants like tomatoes, ladyfingers, can be grown in hose itself, as it makes your house beautiful and yields you vegetables it has higher importance. You may also retail the yields and make some money. House born yields has the first grade and having the yields makes you healthier.

How to make terrace a garden:
To make a terrace garden the following methods to be followed,

1. Locate a place in your balcony with rich sunshine.
2. Buy a flowerpot and place it in the located place.
3. Fill the moisturized mud in the pot, add some manures and leave it for 2 to 3 days.
4. Buy a seed of a plant which you prefer and soak it in the flowerpot and water the mud.
5. Always see that the mud in the pot is moisturized. Be careful that don’t fill up too much water in the pot, so it might easily get deteriorated. 
6. The plant will be grown up within some days of proper care.

SUGGESTIONS FOR GARDENERS
Here are a few suggestions for those who are or who want to take up gardening.

• Take proper care of plants or trees you grow. More care is needed in the initial times as they are very soft. 
• Never use high concentrated chemicals in the fields where you grow the plants. 
• Keep your fields tidy. There is a high chance for rodents like mouse to raid your fields. If you have grass fields, level it up periodically.
• Never use poisons and traps near fruits to capture squirrels. Better use clothes to cover them up if you needed the fruits so badly. If you take up gardening for relieving stress or as a hobby, feel happy for the animals that feed on your plants.
• Never use bare hands for digging fields as you may be susceptible to the fungus that are present in the mud and may lead to skin allergies.   

Conclusion
This post may be beneficial to everyone out there reading this if you love gardening. Our world is getting much polluted and this is the time to make a change. Let us follow sustainable goals and make this world a better place to live. If you find this post useful, share this with your family and friends.