Three Reasons Everyone Should Have a Garden

Having a garden is so very important, and not just for beautification purposes. Home gardens are such a vital part of the ecosystem in our increasingly populated environments. Could you imagine your street or neighbourhood without any gardens? Exactly! So, here are five great reasons why everyone should have a garden.

Number One

Plants of all kinds are oxygen producers for our planet. Even seven year olds know that plant use carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and in return produce and release our much needed oxygen. The air quality of a house with an ample supply of plants in and around it is sure to be better than one surrounded by cement. Due to a process called photo-remediation, plants are able to mitigate pollution from the air by absorbing them through their leaves and roots. Here are some houseplants which are purported to improve air quality.

Number Two

Gardens provide a home for many small animals which would otherwise be displaced by human invasion. When we construct a home, we are in essence displacing some smaller animals from their habitat or at the very least reducing its size. Birds, frogs, bees, butterflies and so many other unseen life forms have to find new homes and feeding grounds when we clear land for construction. It really is in the best interest of the environment that homeowners plant a garden to at least replace ecosystems they have destroyed in the process. How many animals does your garden call home?

 Toads and lizards help to rid the garden of so many pesky insects like mosquitoes and flies. FYI...I cannot make this pic any bigger. Reason.....I DETEST TOADS..OMG look at their super bumpy skin!

How can you not 💓 butterflies? Seriously!

My basil plants make bees oh so happy. I am also happy to provide a source of food for these little environmental workers.

Remember when u kill a caterpillar you are killing a future butterfly! 

Number Three

Just let that sink in for a minute.

With more and more of mainstream agriculture turning to genetically modified seeds and methods of farming, populations of insects like bees and butterflies have shrunken significantly according to many studies. As pollinators for everything including our foods, they are pretty much left starving and unemployed when farmers opt to use GMO seeds and use chemical fertilizers. Instead of being pollinated by these little creatures, GMO plants have already been pollinated by genetically altering the organism's DNA, sometimes by adding genes from unrelated organism. Do you remember the tomato with fish DNA? It's almost like a human attempting to eat a decorative fruit! The plant looks like a plant, but it can do nothing for the insect. And it's not just bees, it's caterpillars (butterflies) and all other life forms which depend on this naturally occurring ecosystem which we need but insist on tampering with.

I hope this lil post has given you some food for thought and maybe you will be inspired to plant a little garden.