Gardening - Health | Fitness and Ultimate Mind Workout

Garden increases beauty of your house and you can make garden according to the design of your house. Garden provides fresh air and decoration to our houses and offices.

The best way to stay fit and healthy at home is gardening. Where a decorated and clean green garden gives amazing environment, there it can also reduce your stress and make your body fit.

Researchers of Harvard medical school said, Raking the garden lawn for 25-30 minutes can burn almost 120 calories, this value of calories is equal to what is burnt by half an hour of weight lifting, horse riding and by playing volleyball.

In gym, if you spend 20 minutes on each machine like rowing, running and on a cross trainer, the amount of burning calories will be same by doing weeding, pruning and moving lawn till 3 hours in garden.

Squats and Stretching
You can give strength to muscles by squatting during planting or weeding in the garden. Gardening keeps our legs strong and increases suppleness during clipping,pruning, digging.
Gardening is ultimate mind workout

When you sit by keeping weight on feet by bending your knees during removing weeds, it helps to improve your blood circulation and reduces your belly fat. You can also build core muscles by adjusting heavy pots.

Keep things in mind before Gardening.
When you think about garden, first thing that comes in your mind is space. You can make small and big garden according to your house, space and choice. Garden looks very amazing at the front of your house or one side of house. You can think about which type of plants do you want to grow in your garden such as small or big. To water your plants arrange a water connection inside the garden.

Garden Flowers
After space next thing that comes in our mind is flowers. You can grow flowers according to the season summer and winter. You should take care of proper environment and temperature. Flowers add to the beauty of your garden. They increase fragrance inside the house and also attract butterflies.

Garden Plants
After flowering, people can also grow small plants on the surrounding of their garden such as palm trees and other decorative plants which provide beautiful environment forever. These types of plants never get affected by changing seasons. You can use cutting tools to reshape the growing plants.

Vegetables Garden
Vegetables Garden helps to grow organic vegetables. These types of gardens can be made in rural areas, balconies or terraces. We can grow all vegetables with organic method without the use of pesticides. We can grow some medicinal plants such as tulsi and aloevera. You can also grow some vegetables in pots or containers.
  •  If your pot depth is 4-5 inches then chives, lettuce, coriander, basil, radishes can be grown.
  • If depth is 6-7 inches then bush beans, garlic, mint, onions, asian greens, peas can be planted.
  •  If container depth is 8-9 inches then spinach, eggplant, pole beans, leeks, carrots, chard, cucumber can be planted.
Garden Containers
A container in gardening is a small enclosed and usually poratable pots used for displaying live flowers and plants. Garden containers provide wonderful decoration to your garden. We can use pots, tin, barrel and hanging baskets for garden. Hanging pots consume less space and look beautiful.

Benefits of Pots and Containers
  •  Less risk of soil brone disease.
  • We can adjust pots according to sunlight, moisture and temperature  that plants require.

Garden Seeds
Garden seeds help to grow more plants and vegetables . We can check these seeds and can make hybrid breed to improve their quality. We can sell hybird seeds to customers.

Garden Shrubs
Garden shrubs are used to decorate main entrance. We can grow shrubs with the help of tall plants inside the garden. We can cover surroundings of our gardens with shrubs. Some shrubs can be used to build an artificial wall inside the gardens.

So Decorate your house with garden and keep yourself fit.

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