Home gardening: a small sweet project this year
What if there were no pandemic, no great global lockdown, and you’re yet interested in home gardening?
What’s your most favorite thing to do at home? Aside from spending most of the time working online, doing some offline work makes me feel green and great. It’s something to love. A hobby. And one of the best ways to learn anything gardening is to go online.
I read this piece on NPR with great interest: Fearing Shortages, People Are Planting More Vegetable Gardens.
The AP has an interesting piece: Finding joy indoors in troubled times, one leaf at a time.
Plant parenting, it turns out, is no easy task. Though they are indeed difficult to kill, it takes effort to keep them looking bright, shiny and healthy. I am still learning to care for them, but especially now, I love the work of doing so. It brings comfort, consistency.
The 10 Best Herbs to Grow in Your Garden
One of the best things about growing your own herb garden is having your pick (literally) of ingredients to cook and season with. After all, homegrown always tastes best, so we’ve pulled together some cool herbs to grow in your garden. You can easily get a few of the best garden hoes after reading this review.
According a website called Exploding Topics, home improvement and gardening are very popular this year.
Here’s a list of my favorite home gardening sites:
Essential Gardening Tools: Must-Have for Beginners
‘horticultural how-to and woo-woo’ the source of organic gardening inspiration
Gardenista: Sourcebook for Outdoor Living
Gardenista.com is the definitive guide to stylish outdoor spaces, with garden tours, hardscape help, plant primers, and daily design news.
What to love and try: Gardening 101: Strawberry
From composting to Calatheas: gardening advice with Jane Perrone
This is hilarious: Growing tomatoes outdoors
TheFifty9 (help most people get gardening tools; some useful lists): Best Wheelbarrows for Gardening
What is the relationship between gardening and horticulture? (Quora)
Edible Gardening Blog for Melbourne Based Gardeners
LawnStarter (a startup making lawn care easy affordable and reliable)
Best Garden Hoes (A garden hoe is essential in our daily gardening. Most often, we use it in our garden and farm to get rid of weeds or planting. Picking the right garden will help make your work more manageable.)
How to grow vegetables in pots
Do you love gardening or starting to get your hands dirty? I hope this list of blogs and websites are resourceful to you, the same way that it’s me.
Veggies in the Street, and Other Changes We Can Make
7 vegetables you can easily regrow indoors using kitchen scraps
How to Start a Garden: 5 Tips for Beginners
There’s no better way to ensure a constant supply of fresh ingredients than by starting a vegetable garden. Starting a new vegetable garden is not complicated and it doesn’t need to be difficult. Turn your patio or backyard into a source of your very own fresh herbs, vegetables, and fruits. Follow these simple steps on how to start a garden — and stay tuned for more specific growing guides.
The 5 Best Fruits and Vegetables to Grow in Pots
We all dream of eating the fruits of our own labor, but with smaller living spaces on the rise, a lack of a giant backyard may have you feeling shy about trying your hand at growing your own produce.
How to grow passion fruit from seed — DIY Video
Gardening 101: How to Use Coffee Grounds in the Garden
What are the benefits of home gardening?
Most gardeners often find gardening relaxing and stress-relieving. Thus, it’s essential for overall mental health benefits. Not surprisingly, caring for our own plants gives the whole family a chance to work together. If you have neighbors who also garden, then gardening sometimes offers social interaction. In addition to this, gardening also offers a form of moderate outdoor exercise.
I personally believe that the future is home gardening. It’s fun. It’s a hobby most of us (especially those who work from home).
