Have you thought about getting into gardening as a hobby? Or as a way to improve the curb appeal around the outside of your home? There are many reasons to give gardening a go and it’s a terrific hobby that can actually substantially improve your lifestyle in many ways. Here are a few things to consider when it comes planning out what type of garden you’ll want to start and what you may wish to use it for.
Enhancing Your Yard Space
One reason to decide to start a garden area is to improve your yard and make it more attractive. Landscaping your entire property can actually improve its overall value—especially if you’ve been considering selling your home and putting it on the real estate market. You can hire a professional landscaper to get help dig up garden beds and get the ground prepped for planting or you can choose to do it yourself. Some key points you’ll want to consider when getting ready to landscape include:
- *Plants, flowers and shrubs you wish to incorporate.
- *Mulch, plant food, and fertilizer type.
- *Location for specific plants, including soil type and sunlight amount.
- *Proper tools needed to plant and maintain your garden, like the watering hoses here.
This is also a good time to consider if you want to add specific yard and garden elements such as a water fountain, rock wall, sidewalk, patio, deck or fence. Maybe you will want to plant decorative grass or different varieties for variation, so don’t forget to include tall fescue grass seeds for a unique feature. These are added elements you’ll need to consider when thinking about adding certain plants and flowers.
For-Profit
For some people, they plant and raise garden plants strictly for profit. This could be vegetables or cut-flowers that you propagate and sell. It could also be specific cut flowers such as roses, tulips or carnations that grow and sell to florists or to place in floral arrangements or craft projects for selling locally or at farm markets. In some cases, fall plants and vegetables are popular to incorporate into your business for a solid sale. This could be pumpkins, gourds, fall mums, and decorative corn stalks that are popular around Halloween and harvest time. If you’re planning on setting up a shop or just sell from your home, you can make a profit from the plants and flowers you grow in your garden as long as you have a solid business plan in place.
Healthy Eating Choices
You can also grow a vegetable garden for a healthier lifestyle and way of life. Having fresh veggies and herbs available in your backyard can definitely promote a healthier menu to turn to on a daily basis. If you choose to garden in large quantities, you can also utilize your harvest abundance for canning and freezing purposes. This allows you to still preserve the goodness and nutrients of your bounty throughout the year, even in winter. From there, you can cut back on preservatives and store-bought food and introduce healthier meal choices for you and your family.
To Attract Birds And Wildlife
Having certain plants and fruit-bearing bushes and trees in your yard can attract certain species of animals, birds, and insects to your garden. This allows you to enjoy butterflies and bees in and around your space. Having these added wildlife creatures in our outdoor space helps to pollinate your flowering plants and generate a hearty food source for a variety of insects and flower friendly bugs. Having a beautiful flowering yard can also be therapeutic. It can bring about a sense of calm and tranquility that can help benefit a variety of health issues, including stress and depression. Not only can you be out amongst the gorgeous flowers and foliage, the scents and smells can invoke feelings of calm and inner peace.
Now is the time to start planning your spring garden. Once you establish a garden with perennials, annuals, and well-fed soil, you can add plants that will flourish throughout the spring, summer, fall and early parts of winter. You can also consider transferring or wintering a lot of sensitive plants to the indoors, where you can provide a temporary greenhouse for nourishment as they thrive throughout the cold temperature months. Your garden is what you make it. You can utilize it for one thing or a multitude of things that will help nurture you just as much as you nurture and care for it.
Hello Pauline, thanks for sharing such wonderful post about the gardening, as I was willing to know about the benefits and uses of gardening and I found your blog informative with complete information of how can I convert and enhance my extra space into a beautiful garden.
Thank you for the lovely article! Although I think the most important benefit is that it makes you feel good, it makes you feel like what you’re doing really matters. Gardening is a great, often underrated experience.
Gardening gives you’re a real sense of appreciation when you can see the bounty of your efforts.Fruits and vegetables from your own garden are higher in nutrients and this is why the fruits and vegetables grown in your garden will promote health.
Thank you so much for such a wonderful post. Keeping our link with nature in any form has a very profound effect on our health.
It is very true that landscaping and garden can tackle so many other social factors like obesity, depression and organic food production. I think the best way to start a garden is to simply start. It is so fun to learn when you go along when gardening. Thanks for an informative article on this subject.
This is one of that feel good post which i look before starting my day. Thanks for this lovely post and yes, i agree with all thats said here.
Great article as always!
I just wanted to say mention that Earth Day is over but our planet is still losing 15 billion trees each year.
Earth Day Network works to reforest the earth and build sustainable communities but we must all do our little bit, too!
Keep those great blogs coming!!!
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Amazing tips on garden actually .it is my dream that have a beautiful small garden at my home and
after reading this post I will be going to make it soon. Thanks
Very Useful tips on garden actually .it is my dream that have a beautiful small garden at my home and
after reading this post I will be going to make it soon. Thanks
Hi,
very informative and useful article, I love gardening and was searching for this type of information because I always want to see my garden decorative and beautiful.
keep sharing more.
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Growing your own food always feels fulfilling as you get to enjoy fresh vegetables and fruits at the comfort of your home anytime. I love gardening and I that is what I do most of my free time.
Thank you for sharing these great benefits!!
I’ve started working on a large, shaded backyard, putting in seating, flowers, and plants in a variety of containers. Also starting a natural haven for birds. A big job on a fixed income. I keep looking at yard sales, junkyards, every place I can find interesting items. For example, an old galvanized mop bucket filled with blooms. And yes I know my neighbors must think I’m crazy. It’s a challenge, never having had shade before.
Great post and ideas. We orginally started our garden to show our children where vegetables come from, but it has become a great source of fresh produce that use , especially the tomatoes. We drew in wildlife as well, and they seem to enjoy our labors as well. Thanks for sharing.