Gardening Is Good for Health and The Environment

Hobbies can enrich our life, help us relax, and make us happier. Since today is Earth Day, I’d like to talk about one of my hobbies, gardening because it is not only good for health, but also for the environment.

Many people enjoy gardening. It is fun and satisfying when see our living environment become more beautiful under our efforts. Activities of Landscaping the yard and keeping our yard or plants in order is a good mind and body exercises. Studies have shown the decreased risk of dementia, heart attack, and stroke associated with gardening.

Gardening is very good for the environment as well. The flowers, trees, and bushes planted can reduce CO2 and crease oxygen in the atmosphere. It makes our planet more pleasant and greener.

Gardening provides an opportunity for us to reduce organic waste, therefore reducing energy consumption used for recycling those wastes. For example, instead of throwing coffee grounds, eggshells, banana skins, and so on into a garbage can, you can use them to fertilize our plants. 

You can reduce plastic waste. This will not only reduce energy consumption but will also reduce the pollution caused by plastic waste.

Now I am going to share a story of how I found a way of doing it.

In winter, we need to bring most pot plants indoors. Some plants like wet soil. To prevent the water leak after watering, I’d like to put a plastic plate under the pot to contain the leaking water as shown here.

Last winter, I couldn’t find the plates like this in any store, so I had to use anything I can get, such as containers for mushrooms or Tofu. Not very attractive to look at.

This inspired me to find some alternatives, and then I got one. I made these plants pot holders so I can replace those mushroom and tofu containers. they are made with plastic bottles and grocery bags. If you are interested, you can learn how to do it from this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSwLTQtq77M).

Gardening is good for health and the environment. The effects on the environment from one person’s gardening-related activities may be limited. Imagine what effect will have if millions and billions of people all do a little bit of something good for the environment. The effect can be significant.