Gardening & Horticulture

Why is Gardening Important?

If you keep up with this blog, chances are you already know why gardening is important. And yet, many of us get so involved in gardening as a career or a hobby that we neglect to stop and smell the roses (sorry, I couldn’t resist) by which I mean that we don’t often spend time considering the significance of gardening in our lives.

Advantages of Gardening

Taking a few moments to survey the various needs gardening fulfills is a highly advantageous practice.

This consideration can:

• Make us extremely grateful that we get to work (or dabble) in such a beneficial pursuit.
• Give us a solid defense against people who are critical of our tendency to turn every conversation into a gardener’s confab.
• Alert us to new applications for gardening as a profession and avocation.
• Inspire us to share our passion for gardening in hope of improving our social and natural environments.

Health

• We’ll start with the most obvious reason why cultivating plants is so important: We cannot eat, drink, or breathe without them around. No plants = no life and that can’t be healthy!
• Daily gardening chores like watering, weeding, trellising, mulching, and harvesting are great ways to augment an exercise regimen. Granted, most of the time gardening is not a substitute for focused cardio and strength training, but it combines low-impact exercise with other benefits we can’t find at the gym.
• Taking time every morning and evening to tend to the veggies, train the honeysuckle or admire budding iris takes us outside. This might seem trivial, but research shows that being in natural surroundings can lower blood pressure, reduce stress and improve concentration. Communing with nature is a clichéd phrase used in jest more often not, but it proves to be a significant factor in challenging any number of diseases and disorders. Researchers are studying the benefits of nature therapy on everything from ADHD and depression to spinal injuries and cancer. Given the option, I know I’d prefer spending a few hours in a garden to spending a few paychecks at the pharmacy.

Happiness

• Vegetable gardening gives us positive feelings of self-sufficiency. Knowing we have fresh homegrown produce can ease our concerns about providing for our friends and families should something cripple the infrastructure we rely on so heavily.

• Those who are partial (or equally devoted) to ornamental gardening can consider how society places a great deal of significance on flowers, even if it is unconscious or under appreciated. Flowers accompany almost every ritual or ceremony we have. Weddings, funerals, dates, housewarmings, baby showers, birthdays. . . The list goes on. As a part of our make-up as human beings, we are comforted and delighted by beauty. For the skeptics who are tempted to dismiss this point as unscientific or silly, pay attention to the way people respond the next time you bring flowers and reconsider.

Education

• It is impossible to work in a garden without learning something and, lucky for us, there are no tuition fees, no prerequisites, and no grades. We find ourselves figuring the maximum total run and area for each zone of a drip irrigation system, designing the perfect raised bed and pollinating squash by hand so that we can save the seed for next year. Successful gardening requires planning, problem solving and creativity. I don’t have a particular study to back up this statement, but I would be willing to bet that gardening improves and preserves cognitive function more effectively than computer games designed for that purpose.

• Planting, watering and harvesting do not require supplementary reading, but the seasons certainly seem to encourage it.  There is so much to learn that even the most avid and highly educated gardener will never find themselves without something to study while waiting for the ground to thaw. 

Community

• Community gardens do much more than bring people together. The presence of gardens improves our interactions with each other. Studies conducted in large cities show that crime rates (burglary and theft specifically) decrease as accessible gardens and green spaces increase. Working in a community garden fosters a sense of ownership, personal agency and stewardship which in turn increases interest in social activism and other forms of community improvement.
• Gardening as a group is a great activity, but for those of us who see gardening as a solitary pursuit, a mood apart (kudos if you know happen to know that reference) and a respite from social interaction, there are still ways to contribute positively to our communities through our gardening efforts. Gardens increase property value, not just for the gardener’s home, but for the neighborhood as a whole. Though we may do our garden chores alone, there are endless opportunities to share produce, perennials and cut flowers with our neighbors and friends.

Environment

• We know that local food is often, if not always, better food. Product harvested from your backyard or a local community garden is fresher, more nutritious and better tasting than produce that is often picked before it is ripe and shipped to the grocery store. We recognize the benefit to our diets and our budgets, but often overlook how gardening contributes to environmental conservation. By cutting the commodity chain short, gardens help us conserve resources used in transportation and reduce the packaging waste that ends up in the landfill.

• Gardening allows for greater diversity in plant selection. Industrial farming operations rely on monoculture to save time and money. Minimal genetic variation in large scale production has potentially disastrous consequences. An event similar to the Irish Potato Famine is the worst case scenario of the risks associated with monoculture. The foreknowledge that genetically uniform (or nearly uniform) crops are highly susceptible to pests and diseases often results in the excessive application of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Gardening and small scale farming are by nature more capable of incorporating variety.

It is impossible to detail every significant aspect of gardening in one post. You have probably noticed that I’m guilty of oversimplification here and there, but I hope you’ve enjoyed the chance to think about the incredible and innumerable benefits of gardening.

Importance of Horticulture

1. Per Unit Area Yield is High:

As compared to the field crops per hectare yield of horticulture crops is very high.
         
From an fruit area of land more yield is obtained e.g. paddy gives a maximum yield of only 30 q/ha, while Banana gives 300 to 500 q/ha, Pine apple 450 q/ha and Grapes 90 - 150 q/ha. In present shortage of food and scarcity of land by growing fruits more food can be produced.

2. High Returns per Unit Area:

From one unit area of land more income will be obtained e.g. Well kept orchard of apple, grapes and sweet orange can give as much as Rs. 25,000 per ha as net income.

3. A Free Grower/Labour Remains Engaged for the Whole:

An opportunity for maintaining labours throughout the year like the cereals where one cannot keep him self and employ the labours during the slack season.

4. Best Utilization of Waste Land: 
            
Some fruit crops can offer best utilization of waste land crops like wood apple, custard apple, karonda, litchi etc. can be grown in such areas.To meet the annual calories requirements of food per year one would have to cultivate about 0.44 ha of wheat or 0.03 ha of banana or 0.06 ha of mango for satisfying once need. Thus mango produces about 9 times more food energy than the wheat produced per unit area.

 
5. Raw Material for Industries:

Fruit farming is the base for several industries like canning, essential oils etc which in turn provide work for more people.

 
6. Use of Undulating Lands:

Fruit growing can be practiced in places where the gradient is uneven or where the land is undulating and agronomical crops cannot be cultivated. In Konkan region, mango and cashew are cultivated on large scales on hilly and hill back area.

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