Garden therapy

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. – David Hobson

I somewhat liked gardening, found it therapeutic but it is only during covid times that I realised my profound love for the same.

Now, I can easily say that gardening for me has turned into a passion and a commercial activity and my attachment and fondness for it, is growing manifold with each passing day. 

Looking at fresh flowers, tomatoes, new vegetables, buds, plants every morning brightens my day instantly. Learning different ways to make the soil rich and more fertile, be it mixing that banana peel with water to make banana peel fertilizer or tossing egg shells in a food processor for the plants, the process amazes me.

Taking scraps from my kitchen that one typically throws away, mixing them with microbes and air and dry scraps that one would normally find in the garden and BOOM – you’ve made black gold that makes your plants grow like crazy. The process is humbling but at the same time calls for much patience.

There is definitely something afresh  to learn every day and all I can say is "I like gardening, it's a place I find myself when I need to lose myself"