All About Making Container Gardening at Home: Keeping a Beautiful Home Garden

Yes..this is my experience that plants you grow and the flowers you pluck from your own home garden make you feel elated. They are small bundles of joy. Until I grew a couple of container plants on my home balcony, I was unaware of the pleasures of gardening. All the images I posted here are from my pot gardening.

I don't know what prompts me to go to the balcony and see my plants in the early morning itself. I spend a few minutes with them, seeing them move with the morning breeze, with fresh flowers. Automatically, my hand goes to touch them. For me, they look active and cheerful. I call my son to see the plants while sipping hot coffee in the morning. This way, children connect with nature.

The otherwise busy human mind takes it easy with the freshness of the plants and flowers. Garden changes your mood and makes you feel happy. If you observe the plants closely, you will notice some changes each day such as growth, flowering, color, etc.

Get a few plants from your relatives, friends, or neighbors. You can also buy them from the nursery. Get pots, soil, and some manure. Maybe, you have to buy a few gardening equipment. That's all.

Mix the soil with manure. You must wear gloves while touching the soil. See that the container/pot has a hole near the bottom to flow the excess water from the soil. Keep a small stone near the hole to cover half the hole. Fill the soil till three fourth portion of the container.

Place the plant in the center. Fill up the soil till one inch below the container rim. Gently press the soil surrounding the plant. At least more than three fourth portion of the plant should be above the soil.

Pour water until it covers the entire soil. Leave it like that for one whole day. From the next day onwards, start watering them daily, depending on the need of the particular plant. Generally, during the rainy and winter seasons, plants need less water. During summer, they need more water.

For most of the container plants, the manured soil will last for a few months, say 5-6 months. Then, you have to loosen the soil and add freshly manured soil. This is the schedule you have to follow.

If you see weeds in the pot, remove them. Keep the pot in a sunlit area.

Watering the plant should be your routine activity. Plants are not less than your little kids! They need your continuous care. I mean to say if you want to go on a vacation to some other location for a few days, make sure that someone takes care of watering the plants.

This article is written through my own experience in home gardening.

I come from a rural family. My parents used to cultivate acres of farmland. Though now I reside in a metropolitan city, my heart longs for the village beauty. I like the natural surroundings, rivers, trees, flowers, birds, animals, insects, etc.

I was brought up in such an area where nature was bountiful. Even in cities, you can have a small home garden or container garden that can soothe your mind.

There are plenty of positive health benefits of having such a miniature garden in your home.

1. Plants and flowers are living beings. Observing their growth, fragrance, color, pattern, etc is a pleasure by itself. Feeding and maintaining the plants gives you inner satisfaction that you can't describe.
2. You are closely associated with the earth and nature from which we came.
3. It gives you the practice of a long attention span. Daily feeding and observing the plant routine needs proper scheduling and planning.
4. It is a beautiful sensory experience. An unknown pleasure comes to you through home gardening.
5. You may get to see insects such as butterflies, wasps, honeybees near your garden. This adds beauty to the garden. It is certainly an enjoyment, especially for kids.
6. It makes you stress-free. If you involve yourself deeply in gardening, at least for some time you will forget the worries. Thus, gardening helps to maintain good health.
7. Through gardening, you get some exercise that is good for your health.
8. Best of all, you get to breathe fresh air!

Cultivate the home gardening habit in your young ones. Involve them in watering the plants and weeding. Explain to them about plants, flowers, and nature. Make them feel happy with nature. This will help to reduce global warming to some extent. If every person thinks this way, the world becomes a better place to live.