Growing a Home Gardens: A Simple Guide for Beginners

By Harshita Joshi

Gardening may be pursued either as a hobby or as a career. To the modern urban world, gardening is a hobby, a relaxing escape from the pressures of an urban environment. To a vocational gardener, gardening may be an enjoyable vocation. Whatever may be the reason behind the gardening activity, undoubtedly, growing flowers, fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits, provides a great sense of joy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AGRIHORTICO
• Release date: Mar 5, 2019

Harshita Joshi

Harshita Joshi is an agribusiness consultant and a freelance writer. She holds Bachelor’s Degree in Horticulture and Post Graduate Diploma in Agribusiness Management. Horticulture is one of her areas of expertise and writing is her passion.She publishes her writings on horticulture with the help of agrihortico.com,a leading portal in horticulture knowledge dissemination services.

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Growing a Home Garden

A Simple Guide for Beginners

Harshita Joshi

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Gardening: Meaning and Importance

A garden, as per Oxford dictionary, is a piece of ground used for growing flowers and vegetables, and gardening is the activity of growing flowers and vegetables on a piece of ground. However in broad term, a garden may be defined as a piece of land that is used for beautification and utility purposes. A garden may be beautified by landscaping and by planting flowering and foliage plants. It is made useful by planting vegetables, medicinal and culinary herbs, and fruit trees.

Gardening may be pursued either as a hobby or as a career. To the modern urban world, gardening is a hobby, a relaxing escape from the pressures of an urban environment. To a vocational gardener, gardening may be an enjoyable vocation. Whatever may be the reason behind the gardening activity, undoubtedly, growing flowers, fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits, provides a great sense of joy, relaxation and accomplishment.

In horticulture, gardening is defined as the practice of growing and cultivating plants. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance, while other useful plants such as root vegetables, leafy vegetables, fruit plants, and herbs are grown for consumption purposes. There are certain other plants that are grown for use as dyes, or for their medicinal or cosmetic properties.

Types of Gardening: Gardening may be specialized or generic. Specialized gardens focus on growing a specific category of plants. For example, flower gardens, vegetable gardens, fruit orchards, herbal gardens, rock gardens, and so on. Generic gardens make use of both utility and aesthetics as in case of landscape gardens, parks, etc. An overview of different types of gardening practices is given below.

Home Gardening or Residential Gardening: When gardening is pursued as a hobby