With the work from home set-up, doing gardening and propagating plants is something that even working moms can do. Gardening can help moms cope with the stress of finding work-life balance. Here are some key points on why you should consider urban gardening:
1. Plants have the ability to absorb negative energy.
Just by simply looking at a new life sprouting can bring so much hope and light into your life. Watching how the plants that you planted are now slowly growing and blossoming is a different kind of satisfaction.
It’s the kind of satisfaction that gives you peace and joy. With this, every time you visit your garden or observe the changes and the colors of the flowers and the plants, all the negativity is being absorbed by them leaving you only with a smile on your face.
2. Urban gardening requires patience.
Growth takes time, and anything with life in it won’t turn out the way we want at all times. In gardening, you cannot hurry the plants to grow. In this time where the pandemic paused some of our plans, gardening is the best route to go to learn to embrace things and just let go. As you patiently tend your plants you are slowly incorporating patience into your lifestyle.
3. Helps create quality for the family
Gardening is an activity for all ages, and kids are really very curious and love to get their hands dirty. With the limited option of bonding activities with your family due to the pandemic, gardening is the easiest most cost-effective way to bond.
Since you will be investing time and money when doing gardening here are some tips worth considering:
Tools to trust
Investing a little amount of surplus money for purchasing tools that are qualitatively superior, is sure to yield multiple benefits in the long run. They are not only efficient in functioning, but also easier to maintain. Select gardening tools with utmost care and make sure that you end up with the right size which provides maximum comfort. Keeping the blades of your tools sharpened on a regular basis will reduce stress and get things done faster. Getting hold of a garden kneeler protects you from back ache. Powerful equipment may cost higher, but they save tons of hours and sweat.
For a stunning appearance
For further beautification of your existing set-up, you might consider finding some good koi fish. You can find them easily by searching on Google with Koi Fish for sale. Getting a natural habitat built for those lovely vivacious fishes, will make your garden truly complete. Maintaining the health of your Koi pond is extremely essential with proper filtration for clean water, provision of a shade, controlling algal bloom and regular draining arrangements. Recording footnotes in your personal gardening journal can save your time and efforts by tracking the dates of planting seeds, bulbs and other relevant activities in the garden that you engage yourself in.
Following these strategies will gift you with a gorgeous yard in no time, and enable you to take a deep breath of satisfaction at the end of every tiring day.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
