Gardening benefits
Benefits of Gardening
Healthy activity for Children
Gardening is a great chance to get children involved in nature and the outdoors. It will force them to put down the screens and pick up the shovel! Especially during the pandemic and lockdown, school disruptions and shortage of stimulation. Getting children involved in the planning and planting a garden gives them a chance to experience a new and healthier type of entertainment. And most importantly gives everyone a chance to be outside working together uninterrupted by the outside world.
Creativity
Gardening gives you an amazing opportunity for creative freedom. You get to design a specific space that allows to fulfil your vision. If your vision is a garden full of flowers you are allowed to specially choose what kind and what colour. And If you desire to grow fruits and vegetables you are able to plant what you love to have in your kitchen. But most of all a garden is an amazing place that you created to share with your family and friends.
Stress Relieve
Gardening helps you to feel calm and content. A study by researchers in the Netherlands found that gardening may reduce the stress hormone cortisol. In the study, the researchers gave two groups a difficult, stressful task. Afterward, to recover, one group gardened for 30 minutes, while the other group read indoors. Not only did the gardening group report better moods than the reading group, but hey had measurably lower cortisol levels.
Exercise
All the different movements needed for gardening, bending, twisting, stretching and lifting, work the muscles in the body. You can easily get a good work out when you are digging holes or pulling weeds. The movements, the sights, the smells are all part of the health benefits while you tend your patch of paradise.
Autumn
Autumn is the ideal time to get rid of the old and in with the new. Prepare beds well by forking over and digging in bonemeal and kraal manure. Petunias, ageratum, alyssum, balsams and salvias are all great options to sow or plant now, as well as Namaqua daisies which even grows in poor soil.
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