Importance of Gardening
There are two main reasons why gardening is important: Good for the Natural World Environment and Gardening is good for your health.
Gardening is steeped in history which were probably first documented back some 3,000 years ago with the Handing Gardens of Babylon and throughout the years with the Greeks, Romans and Egyptian’s all having gardens. In the 1400’s Britain, we initially started Gardening for medical reasons, herbs were grown for potions. Modern day, we garden for pleasure, because it looks nice and pretty, but it does have a more importance in our modern day lives.
Gardening is Good
We can not live without plants and trees, plants and flowers filter pollution, flowers feed pollinators and vegetable plants of course feed humans, animals and insects, above all They Look Nice.
Trees play a significant role in reducing erosion and moderating the climate. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Trees and forests provide a habitat for many species of animals and plants. Trees also provide timber for construction, fuel for cooking and heating, and fruit for food as well as having many other uses.
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Most aspects of Gardening is hard work and a very good exercise, especially in Landscape Gardening, therefor it is not surprising that Gardening is good for your health.
Gardening burns calories, studies find you can burn 300 calories per hour of light gardening, according to The National Institute of Health, 30 to 45 minutes of gardening three to five times a week is enough to keep you fit and healthy. Gardening just does not help with your weight management it also reduces the risk of heart disease and other life-threatening diseases and it helps with your blood pressure.
Gardening decreases the likelihood of osteoporosis. Whilst preforming the tasks of gardening like digging, planting, weeding, and other tasks that require strength, stretching, bending, lifting, carrying, pulling and pushing, building your muscle mass and bone density. Gardening is mainly an out door pastime, where you will soak up a nice amount of Vitamin D from the sun, Vitamin D also plays a key role in preventing osteoporosis.
After all the hard work has been done, there is the wellbeing, the mental satisfaction we get from enjoying the fruits of our labour. To sit back and watch our garden develop brings us great satisfaction, and this makes all the hard work worth it.
Therefor gardening improves your physical and mental wellbeing, no longer does gardening need to be seen as a chore, but rather an investment into your health and well-being.
Most gardeners find gardening therapeutic, when doing repetitive tasks, gardeners can drift away into dream world which has the same properties as meditation.
