GARDENING TAKING CARE OF NATURE

Gardening is an act of taking care of growing plants in one’s garden or backyard. It is also a way of practicing how plants should grow. A gardener is someone who does the gardening. But any person could do such gardening. Gardening can be a great help in the beautification of one’s home. Most common plants that can be seen in a garden are ornamental plants. These plants are used for decorative purposes in gardens because of the color and structure of its flowers, stems, leaves, scent, texture, fruit, bark, etc. Such gardening flowers or plants are roses, tulip, lily, carnation, orchid, sunflower, etc. Others prefer to use the consumable plants. These plants grow for personal needs like food, medicine, livelihood, etc.

There are different types of gardening;

• (1) residential garden is made near the house. 
• (2) Indoor gardening is about rising of plants within a dwelling or building, 
• (3) Native plant gardening is a way of using native plants for making harmony in a specific area, 
• (4) Water gardening is a way of rising plants in pools or ponds and a sample of it is a bog garden, 
• (5) Container gardening is a way of rising plants in a container either inside or outside, and  
• (6) Community gardening is a communal activity wherein an area is gardened by a lot of people in groups.

There are basic gardening tips on how you could be able to take care of your garden. First, Watering, it is the basic need of a plant. However, overwatering could cause a plant to die. Second, Feeding, fertilizers can be a great help in a plant to grow healthy but it is best to use organic fertilizers so it will not destroy the soil. Third, Lighting, plants number one requirement is the sunlight. Thus, there are other plants which can stay out from the sunlight. Other needs less light. So it is best to check and research the plant’s needs. Fourth, Temperature, other house plants need a moist environment so better study and check about your plants. Lastly, Re-potting, some plants need to be re-potted especially if its container is too small. But other plants don’t want to disturbed its roots. Also some have small roots that it doesn’t need to be re-potted. Check the roots if it needs it be, re-pot it.

 For a better way of making the plants healthy, one should take note of the garden pests. Garden pests can be insects, plants, or animals which bring harm to the garden plants. It may eat plant parts, disturbed the soil, otherwise, kill the plant, reduce its quality or slow down its growth. One way of solving it is the garden pest control with the use of pesticides. However, there are natural ways of getting rid of pests instead of using pesticides like pulling out the infected ones, also the proper way of choosing a healthy soil could be a prevention of having pests in soils. Rotating crops could also reduce pests. Another thing is to keep disinfecting or cleaning gardening tools used in infected plants to be able not to spread these pests in your garden.