Working in a garden, walking in a garden, even looking at a garden can be beneficial for your physical and mental health, research shows.
True confessions from a plant reporter and devotee of more than 40 years: My first foray into gardening was a pathetic disaster.
Thus, the cantaloupe and beans made a valiant effort to sprout and then withered away. My sunflowers struggled to a paltry height and produced some exhausted blooms. The corn followed the sunflowers, scrawny stalks that got about 3 feet tall before they tasseled and produced a couple of very slender ears.
These memories are an indelible part of my childhood, fleeting but so tangible I can almost taste them. Every time I wanted to give up on gardening, they nurtured me and gave me hope. They were an example of what could be if I’d just keep trying. On my worst days, my garden was a reason to get out of bed in the morning, and the one thing that made me smile.
Over the last 20 years, dozens of studies have shown that working in a garden, walking in a garden, even“As a scientist, I’m skeptical of really extravagant claims,” said Don Rakow, professor of horticulture at Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science in Ithaca, N.Y. “But the evidence is so strong at this point, after so many studies, that we have confirmed that time in nature, including gardening, is absolutely beneficial to us in a number of ways.
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