The basics of gardening

What is gardening all about? How does one become a good gardener?

Why don’t we start with the basics? What supplies, right tool and equipment do you need in gardening? In any other jobs, one must choose the right tool and must know how to take care of them for a good outcome. Properly caring for gardening tools will make it easier and more fun for everyone.

For starters, one only needs to have a fertile soil, seeds, sun and water. We don’t even have to have a large backyard or land to put up a garden. We can even have gardening on a small pot or a can. We can make use of what we have and get started with the mini garden which is better with nothing at all.

Another factor that one should consider in gardening is the sun. However small or big a garden is, the fact is that sunlight is one important source of its life. Plants or flowers must get the most sunlight as evenly distributed as possible for the longest period of time.

Where there is sun, there should also be water. Gardening is as simple as knowing that everything should be kept in balance. In as much as sun is an important factor, water serves as the other basic element that is indeed significant to produce a lovely garden.

But even with all the supplies, right tools and equipment that we have, one must be able to have a heart for the green stuffs. For most gardeners, they enjoy doing what they do. It gives them joy and a sense of fulfillment after seeing what they have created, planted and what have blossomed out of their creation. Gardening is like one of those used and abused clichés ‘’you sow what you reap’’.

For some, gardening is an art. More than the job itself, landscaping the garden is a hobby or a passion which expresses the creativity, talent and views of the gardener. For others, gardening has been part and parcel of a community’s social aspects. Notice how people express their political or social views in a garden especially in modern Europe or North America.

While there may be various façade on which gardening has been placed to, it is clearly more than the practice of growing flowering plants, fruits and vegetables but a mere expression of mankind’s passion and care for mother nature.