WELL BEING____________________________________________________________________
Horticultural
Therapy
By Faheema Sahib
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Gardening too
Is good for you!
A s I patiently brainstormed topics for this article one fine
afternoon, I couldn't help but write about my newest
hobby in which there are surprising benefits that I cannot
wait to inform you about!
The garden at my new home that I had
been blessed with just seven months
ago was fairly bare apart from a long
stretch of beautiful green grass. The
empty spaces between the grass and
boundary wall was brown and sandy -
certainly not the most attractive thing
for a lover of flowers and colour. To
remedy the situation, I began to fill
those spaces with DIY compost i.e fruit
and vegetable peels, kitchen towels, egg
shells, leftover oils and used teabags in
an attempt to prepare the very dry
looking sand for planting.
This practice soon became a habit and
before I knew it, greens began
sprouting up from deep within the
earth.
Now, although this wasn't any colourful
flowers just yet, I was elated. As I dug
to bury messy compost each day, I
began to notice the tiny worms
squirming their way around inside the
ground, working the soil and
transporting oxygen around. Very soon,
the garden came alive with all different
types of plants. In other words, my
newly found green fingers were the start
to a new, rewarding hobby.