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Beside the cleanness and adequate ventilation in the house, it is better
if you can have home garden. Healthy garden will create healthy home
and will be a benefit for all family members. Fresh air from healthy garden make you healthier,
comfortable and relax situation from the beautiful garden will reduce the stress and give
calming effect. By having home garden, you can enjoy the beautiful flowers; fresh fruits and
vegetables; and sunshine which will warm up your body. Sunshine also gives Vitamin D to your
body which helps raise your mood.
Many problems facing everyday can make people get stress and tired so they are looking for the
way to help them stay relax. Home garden will help to reduce the stress. Gardening activities
or just enjoy the beautiful home garden will make people feel more happy.
To create home garden, you must not have a large area. Small land at your home corner can be
used to create a beautiful home garden. You can choose garden design that is suitable with your
personality.
Some studies show that only enjoying the garden is enough to give good effect to people
psychological health. Green environment with bright color flowers will make people happy when
enjoy it. You will feel very relax by smelling the flower scent and freshness of green plants.
Fresh air from your home garden also makes your feeling better and may release your
problem.
Plant with green leaves and scent flowers such as rose, orange jasmine, polianthes tuberosa,
etc can be chose to make your garden home become more attractive. Flowers with bright color
will attract many butterflies to your home garden. This will enhance the beauty of your
garden.
Listen to the music while gardening, will be a good stress therapy. Other therapy is home
garden creation which combined with water feature such as pond, fountain, waterfall, etc.
Home garden can be enjoyed by most people, from children to old people, health people or sick
people. Some people make gardening as their hobby. Your free time can be used to maintain your
home garden so it will stay beautiful and healthy.
Exercise is one of other benefit of home gardening beside enjoy the beauty of your home garden.
Do warming up or stretching before you do gardening activities such as raking, digging, and
planting. Regular exercise will help to keep your body healthy. But most of modern life style
has limited the people time to do sport or exercise.
Many children obesity are caused by lack of regular exercise and bad diet. A good home garden
can accommodate both requirements above by allowing children exercise when gardening and
healthy food like fresh fruits and vegetables could be available from your own home garden,
even only small garden. Children can also learn about the planting process start from the seeds
until healthy fruit or vegetable and beautiful flowers are resulted. Many schools also combine
the gardening knowledge to Science lesson, and children have a chance to practice by creating a
simple garden and continue develop based on their knowledge. Beside as education facility,
garden also becomes recreation place for children.
By having home garden, children can do the experiment and can enjoy the fresh vegetable and
fruit. Nutrient and vitamins will start to reduce after fruit and vegetable are picked from the
plant. Best time to consume is right after fruit and vegetable are picked up. Fruit and
vegetable that is freezed right after picked also can help much to keep the freshness, but the
best time to consume is right after picked.
Planting fruit and vegetable in your own home garden make you possible to control the
fertilizer used for the plants. By using the organic fertilizer and avoid chemical fertilizer
you can enjoy the healthier fruit and vegetable.
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