For The Love Of Home Gardening

By: Susan Green

Home gardening can include a mixture of contrasting gardening techniques, ranging from easy ways to garden inside your home, to hydroponics gardening, to just about anything else that you can imagine. For many people however, home gardening means the ability to cultivate your own fresh produce, the ability to determine what chemicals enter your domain, and most importantly just how fresh your food will be when you serve it to your family.

It’s undeniable really just how tasty a freshly picked tomato will taste, or peas right out of the pod. And the fragrance you get from just a handful of newly plucked berries, or fresh cut rosemary. This is what the home gardener lives to experience.

But is there more that gardening at home can accomplish? Shouldn’t there be more to it than the growing of vegetables and fruits? I was thinking exactly that previously when I discovered the knowledge of home gardening. There is a lot more to home gardening than initially meets the eye, however.

Apart from fruits and vegetables, you have your flowering foliage, your leafy plants, including your shade giving trees. These must all be considered within the order of your garden in such a way that you get the most of them. After thate, if you wanted to you could always design an irrigation system worthy of a larger garden, or you could keep it simple and just spray the hose when necessary.

Bugs are an ever growing annoyance, excuse me for the pun, and must be monitored vigilantly. And especially in a vegetable or fruit garden, you will have to be doubly cautious of such cute, and cuddly animals as rabbits, and other animals that like to dig holes. Rodents are always an issue, and must be dealt with quickly so as not convey any disease.

Soil must be fresh and aerated so it does not become to hard, thereby hindering root growth. Worms and other like creatures must be brought into the overall plan of your home gardening process.

Water drainage, soil depletion, landscape upkeep, tools and equipment, the many cups of lemonade you will be drinking in your quest to perfect your home gardening project. The list is nigh on endless, and I could go on forever, just suffice it to say that home gardening is not as cut and dried as it may appear.

And last but not least, you will need to make it a place that you feel at ease in, and that your visitors can feel the same, too. A place that makes you want to investigate all of areas to see, exactly what it is you’ve done with the place. And that’s what gardening at home is all about.