Advantages Of Having A Garden

Gardening from being a source of living for few has emerged to become a hobby for most of the generations today. Gardening is a form of investment by which with proper care and monitoring can be very beneficial to health and encourage more people in the future to have a beautiful garden. Here are a few ways by which gardening can be helpful to you and your loved ones at home.

•  Bring Nature to Your Home: Humans today not have enough time to be closer to nature these days owing to their hectic schedules that is why having a garden within the compound walls of your home can help you in many ways. You can add more greenery by building hedges, planting varieties of green plants, shrubs, trees, etc. for customizing your garden. Having a garden will not only improve the quality of wildlife by creating a small birdbath or a spot to keep food or grains to attract animals and birds to visit your home for drinking and feeding purpose but also invite visitors to drop in and develop your social life in a better way.

• A Perfect Relaxation Spot: Having a garden at home can add a whole lot of meaningful purpose and dimension to your lifestyle. It would encourage every member in the family to de-stress themselves from the chaos of busy routine experienced at educational or business workplaces and other social environments. A lush green colourful garden would indeed serve to be a perfect spot to indulge in relaxing activities, taking in fresh air far away from the polluted concrete environment, enjoy the tunes of chirping birds and water flowing down the fountains and the fragrance from the blossomed flowers as a complete sensual retreat to the body, mind and soul.

• Improve your Health & Lifestyle: Spending quiet moments amidst the greenery would improve your health and lifestyle to a greater extent. Sitting in a garden for at least thirty minutes is ideal to increase your Vitamin D levels especially to those who have frequent back pain complains. Enjoying your time at the yard for any leisure activities like reading a novel, practicing yoga or a walk can add many more benefits to uplift your mood, reduce stress, improve sleep and overall functioning of your mind and body health for a positive life.

• Make Your Love For Gardening as a Hobby: Having a private garden in your home is a perfect family-friendly activity to stay active. By learning the art of gardening of growing vegetables, fruits or flowering plants with consistent efforts, dedication and patience can make the whole activity fun, exciting and an excellent way to start as a hobby.

• Great Alternative To Grocery Shopping: Having a garden at home benefits anyone from saving money spent at a grocery store. Not only would a home garden offer many options to grow vegetables and fruits of your choice in the organic way that are free from pesticides but also cut down on the overall cost in your grocery purchase.

How To Maintain a Lawn

Everybody desires to have a perfect luscious lawn in their backyards to spend some quality time as a spot for a morning exercise routine, to take a stroll in the evening, for kids to play or to host a social gathering. A lawn not only gives an aesthetic appearance to make homes look beautiful but also a great source of oxygen producers that supply three times more oxygen than trees for a healthy lifestyle. Proper maintenance of lawn can be done using these fundamental methods to make your backyards stay green, rich in thick turf growth with a consistent supply of air and sunlight to keep weeds, moss and other deadly forms of grass growth, pests away all year round. • Inspect Your Backyard Soil to Know It’s Health Status: Find out whether your backyard lawn has hard or compact soil and capable enough to grow healthy turfs of grass by doing a random self-inspection. Collect samples from areas having bare patches that show no signs of growth or having dead, decayed moss growth, and hand them over to a lawn care professional serving your locality, to perform a necessary laboratory test to determine the fertility of the soil, PH balance of the soil and various other factors for a healthy lawn. • Seeding and Fertilizing Your Backyard to Promote Growth: Based on the laboratory reports improve PH of soil, it’s fertility and other requirements to fix bare patches and infected segments of your backyard lawn. Create holes in the lawn for seed germination and plant your seeding with premium quality grass seed or a seed mix that matches with conditions of your yard and existing grass, cover every segment of your lawn area including the bare patches and decayed portions. Fertilize your lawn with excellent varieties of nutritious fertilizer from your local gardening store. Buy an acidic fertilizer when your soil is too basic; likewise, lime treatment will fix you’re the acidic nature of your land. Fertilizing soil just twice a year will suffice. Feed cool climate type of grass during summer and vice versa, i.e., – warm ones during winter. Using adding a good soil compost will not only insulate your lawn but also provide the right dose of nutrition in an eco-friendly manner. • Follow the right practices of Watering, Aeration, and Moving: Keep your lawn well hydrated. Deep watering the lawn early in the morning will ensure moisture content to reach the deeper parts of roots. Limit watering your lawn for just 2-3 times a week to avoid oversaturation and do not use harsh chemical water. Grasses require aeration twice a year when the soil is moist enough using spike or plug for aeration. Removing overgrown thatch would allow better oxygen, moisture, and air supply to the grasses. Move your lawn using sharp blades for a cleaner cut. Ensure to move grasses when wet at a moderate height of one third to reduce stress and move your lawn for 5 to 7 days will suffice.