Gardening My Passion

 All You Need To Know

About Gardening:

Gardening is more than just shoveling dirt and watering plants. It is a way to get

outside with a purpose, enjoy the sunshine, get a little exercise and grow your

own veggies and herbs! Gardening is great for people of all ages. It is a way for

you to relax without being a couch potato. Gardening makes you more aware of

your environment. Suddenly you notice the trash on the ground or your neighbor

spraying toxic chemicals on his lawn. When an individual chooses to grow their

own food using organic methods, it is always a win for the individual, family, and

world.

Take a couple of minutes to learn how you can do your part to build a healthier

planet! Gardening is good for the environment for several extraordinary reasons!

Reduce pollution:

which plants Plants produce oxygen through the process of photosynthesis. They

take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through their leaves and use it to

help expel oxygen and water. Carbon dioxide is what we expel when we breathe￾it is a waste product by all means, and plants help recycle it into something we

need to survive! They also remove any chemicals and bacteria's that may be

floating around in the air, providing an overall healthier environment to be

within.

An academic from Goldsmiths, University of London has published a guide to

building an ‘air quality garden’, detailing are best equipped to combat harmful

pollutants.

Professor Gabrys said: “While reducing emissions at source is the best way to

address air pollution, plants can play an important role in mitigating against it.

This toolkit is designed to equip people with the knowledge and inspiration to plant gardens that can improve air quality and enhance the urban realm. The

research builds on citizen monitoring of air quality in Deptford and New Cross,

which found that good urban design can significantly improve air quality

levels.” https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/phyto-sensor/”.

Reduce carbon foot print:

Growing a garden is not only good for you it is also good

for the environment because it reduces the carbon

footprint of your food by decreasing the number of miles

it takes to get food. If you plant trees, it helps

store carbon from the atmosphere into the soil. And it

can play big role for reducing environmental pollution.

Growing your own food can help

you eat healthier:

If you have a vegetable or herb or fruit garden, you’re

getting fresh produce that you know hasn’t been treated

with pesticides.

“It’s essentially as farm-to-table as it gets,” Dr. Hutchins

says, “if you’re eating what you’re growing.”

This article was originally published April 20, 2017 and

was updated on May 18, 2020.

Growing your own produce is a simple solution to

numerous health, environmental, and economic

problems. Whether you are growing a single tomato plant or have a large backyard garden, it is beneficial to

your health. Gardening is a great way to absorb vitamin

D, known as the sunshine vitamin. Vitamin D is crucial in

order to maintain healthy bones and teeth, and it can

also protect against certain diseases.

Australian researchers following men and women in their 60s found that those who regularly

gardened had a 36% lower risk of dementia than their non-gardening counterparts.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20522508 In recent Dutch study,

researchers asked participants to complete a stressful task, then split them into

two groups. One group read indoors and the other gardened outdoors for 30

minutes. The group that read reported that their mood “further deteriorated”,

while the gardeners not only had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol

afterwards, they also felt “fully restored” to a good mood.

Reduce noise pollution:

How do plants reduce noise? There are a number of ways

plants can reduce noise. One way is through sound absorption.

Plant parts such as stems, leaves, branches, wood, etc. absorb

sound. Rough bark and thick, fleshy leaves are particularly

effective at absorbing sound due to their dynamic surface area

It’s the sound produced by the wind passing through the leaves that really

helps muffle noise," explains Robert Smith, a staff arborist for the Arbor Day

Foundation.

A properly designed buffer of trees and shrubs can reduce noise by about

five to ten decibels — or about 50 percent as perceived by the human

ear, according to the USDA National Agroforestry Center.

Conclusion:

Source

Princeton University

Researchers found that gardening at home had a similar effect on emotional well-being (or happiness) as

biking, walking or dining out. The benefits were similar across racial boundaries and between urban and suburban residents, and it was the only activity out of the 15 studied for which women and people with low

incomes reported the highest emotional well-being. The results suggest that household gardens could be key

to providing food security in urban areas and making cities more sustainable and livable.

Gardening at home can be useful in many terms it can help the environment and human beings to live good

life with less pollution and allergic diseases.