Choosing a Garden that is Perfect for You

If you're thinking about starting a garden, the first thing you need to

consider is what type of garden you will have. There are many different

choices and often it can be hard to pick just one, but hopefully you can

narrow it down. But by narrowing it down, you'll make the gardening

experience easier on yourself and the plants. If all your plants are

similar, then it shouldn't be very hard to care for them all. So here are

some of the main garden ideas for you to choose from.



If you're just looking for something to look nice in your yard, you'll

want a flower garden. These are usually filled with perennial flower.

Perennial flowers are flowers which stay healthy year-round. They're

basically weeds because of their hardiness, only nice looking. Different

areas and climates have different flowers which are considered perennials.

If you do a quick internet search for your area, you can probably find a

list of flowers that will bring your flower garden to life. These usually

only require work in the planting stage - after that, the flower take care

of themselves. The only downside to this is that you don't have any

product to show for it.



Another choice for your garden is to have a vegetable garden. These

usually require a little more work and research than a flower garden, but

can be much more rewarding. No matter what time of the year it is, you can

usually find one vegetable that is still prospering. That way you can have

your garden be giving you produce almost every day of the year! When

starting a vegetable garden, you should build it with the thought in mind

that you will be adding more types of veggies in later. This will help

your expandability. Once all your current crops are out of season, you

won't be stuck with almost nowhere to put the new crops. A vegetable

garden is ideal for someone who wants some produce, but doesn't want to

devote every waking hour to perfecting their garden (see below.)



One of the more difficult types of gardens to manage is a fruit garden.

It's definitely the most high-maintenance. When growing fruits, many more

pests will be attracted due to the sweetness. You not only have to deal

with having just the right dirt and fertilizer, you have to deal with

choosing a pesticide that won't kill whoever eats the fruits. Your fruit

garden will probably not produce year-round. The soil needs to be just

right for the plants to grow, and putting in another crop during its

off-season could be disastrous to its growth process. If you're willing to

put lots of work into maintaining a garden, then a fruit garden could be a

good choice for you.



So now that I've outlined some of the main garden types that people

choose, I hope you can make a good decision. Basically, the garden type

comes down to what kind of product you want, and how much work you want to

put into it. If you're looking for no product with no work, go with a

flower garden. If you want lots of delicious product, but you are willing

to spend hours in your garden each day, then go for a fruit garden. Just

make sure you don't get into something you can't handle!

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The Psychology Behind Gardening

I don’t know what it is about a garden that has always drawn humans tothem. But they’ve always been very popular, and an integral part ofpeoples’ lifestyles. Most religions feature gardens as the settings forsome of the biggest events According to Christianity, humanity was startedin a garden and the son of God was resurrected in a garden. The Buddhistbuild gardens to allow nature to permeate their surroundings. Almost everymajor palace and government building has a garden. But what’s so greatabout them? They’re just a bunch of plants, after all.
Of course, the reasoning is fairly obvious behind why people grow food ingardens. It’s to eat! If you live off the fat of the land and actuallysurvive on stuff from your garden, it’s easy to understand the reasoning.But I’m thinking about those people who plant flower gardens just for thesake of looking nice. There’s no immediate benefit that I can see; youjust have a bunch of flowers in your yard! However, after thinkingextensively about the motivation behind planting decorative gardens, I’veconceived several possible theories.
I think one of the reasons people love gardens so much is that while wehave a natural desire to progress and industrialize, deep within all of usis a primal love for nature. While this desire might not be as strong asthe desire for modernism, it is still strong enough to compel us to creategardens, small outlets of nature, in the midst of all our hustle andbustle. Since being in nature is like regressing to an earlier stage ofhumanity, we too can regress to a time of comfort and utter happiness.This is why gardens are so relaxing and calming to be in. This is whygardens are a good place to meditate and do tai chi exercises. A garden isa way to quickly escape from the busy world.
I’ve thought at times that perhaps we as humans feel a sort of guiltdriving us to restore nature and care for it. This guilt could stem fromthe knowledge that we, not personally but as a race, have destroyed somuch of nature to get where we are today. It’s the least we can do tobuild a small garden in remembrance of all the trees we kill every day.It’s my theory that this is the underlying reason for most people to takeup gardening as a hobby.
Gardening is definitely a healthy habit though, don’t get me wrong. Anyhobby that provides physical exercise, helps the environment, and improvesyour diet can’t be a negative thing. So no matter what the underlyingpsychological cause for gardening is, I think that everyone shouldcontinue to do so. In the USA especially, which is dealing with obesityand pollution as its two major problems, I think gardening can only serveto improve the state of the world.
Of course I’m no psychologist; I’m just a curious gardener. I often stayup for hours wondering what makes me garden. What is it that makes me gooutside for a few hours every day with my gardening tools, and facilitatethe small-time growth of plants that would grow naturally on their own? Imay never know, but in this case ignorance truly is bliss.

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