Soil, Seed, Sun! These are all things that you need to have when growing a garden . I think that everyone should grow a garden! There are several benefits to growing a garden. You can learn life skills, it gives you several benefits other hobbies would not, and it teaches you the value of hard work. But what is gardening?, Oxford languages said that gardening is the activity of attending and cultivating a garden as a pastime.
First of all, I think everyone should own a garden because gardening teaches you life skills. One of the life skills that gardening can teach you is thankfulness. According to Garden Lessons, “Thankfulness teaches you outcomes beyond your control.” We as people sometimes forget to be thankful for the things we have, but with gardening we will be reminded to be thankful for the things we have making us all more humble people.
An example of another life skill, gardening can teach you, is giving and charity. According to Garden Lessons, “Giving and charity, because you learn it’s not always about yourself.” You learn it’s not always about yourself, by putting your plant before you. Giving your time and energy will help your plants grow.
The third way gardening teaches you life lessons is patience. From personal experience, gardening will teach you patience. For example, if you are growing a tomato you will have to learn patience, by waiting until the plant turns a dark red color. According to How Plants Grow, “ Growing tomatoes takes 60-80 days.” You will learn to wait because if you pick it too soon it will have a bitter flavor, which teaches you patience.
To continue why everyone should have a garden, is because gardening gives you several benefits other hobbies would not. According to plants in the home, “ Gardening boosts productivity.” It’s true! Gardening can help you feel productive. Unlike other things, like playing video games, you will be doing something productive, when attending to your garden, which will overall make you feel more productive.
Another benefit to gardening, is it has other benefits other hobbies don't have, which is becoming more confident. According to 10 reasons why you should grow a garden, “Studied in the United States and abroad have found that gardening can improve your mood and increase your self-esteem.” This is because growing a garden is not the nicest walk in the park. There are several obstacles that could make your plants not grow. When you do find the secret to gardening, you will feel more confident in what you are planting overall.
A BIG benefit a lot of people don’t know about gardening is that it can relieve anxiety. According to 10 reasons why you should grow a garden, “Watching your plants grow can be relaxing and reduce anxiety. Studies in the United States and abroad have found that gardening, lowers people's anxiety levels drop and they feel less depressed.” This is another reason why gardening gives you benefits other hobbies will not. There are some very stressful hobbies out there like performing arts and athletic events that will increase your stress levels, but gardening is one of the few relaxing hobbies out there.
Last but not least, I think everyone should grow a garden because it teaches you the value of hard work. Gardening is not easy, it takes hard work, and lots of people don’t value hard work. For example, there is this show called The simple life, where two city girls didn't appreciate the value of hard work, so they went out into the real world and worked for all different kinds of people. At the end of the show, they learned to appreciate the value of hard work.
This was something they had never learned to appreciate prior. According to Five Reasons Your Indoor Plant Died, “ not enough light, watering the wrong way, too much fertilizer” - the list goes on. As you can tell, it’s not easy to grow plants, but when you do learn to grow plants and finally get to eat that watermelon you’ll know the value of hard work.
Hard work is not just picking weeds, it might take some out of the box thinking. According to Creative Gardens, “you understand the unique needs of each plant.” For example, if your plant has bugs that will just not go away you might want to research the needs of that plant. You may not necessarily know right away what it needs, so you might have to think outside of the box, and do some research first before treating your plant. Gardening will teach you hard work. According to Oxford Languages, the definition of hard work is, “A great deal of effort or endurance.” This proves that gardening is hard work, because I have previously said that gardening takes effort and you can’t give up.
To finish this off, everyone should own a garden because you can learn life skills, it gives you several benefits other hobbies would not, and it teaches you the value of hard work. These are all things that we all could use., Some of us have them already, but gardening can improve them even further. That is why we should all grow and own a garden. So the next time summer rolls around, do some research on how to grow a garden and begin the amazing journey. Even if it is not summer, you can make a little potted plant grow indoors. So good luck growing, and most importantly have fun!