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Benefits of Indoor Gardening

This literature review discusses several benefits of indoor and home gardening. Gardening can help reduce stress and promote mental well-being through relaxing tasks, exposure to fresh air and sunlight, and serotonin release from soil contact. It allows breaks from sedentary behaviors like working from home. Gardening also increases creativity, mental well-being, social connections, and cultural awareness. For women especially, home gardening provides skills in home and environment management to meet family needs economically. Daily interactions with plants have been shown to decrease depression and anxiety and strengthen family bonds.

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Benefits of Indoor Gardening

This literature review discusses several benefits of indoor and home gardening. Gardening can help reduce stress and promote mental well-being through relaxing tasks, exposure to fresh air and sunlight, and serotonin release from soil contact. It allows breaks from sedentary behaviors like working from home. Gardening also increases creativity, mental well-being, social connections, and cultural awareness. For women especially, home gardening provides skills in home and environment management to meet family needs economically. Daily interactions with plants have been shown to decrease depression and anxiety and strengthen family bonds.

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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Related Literature
As we retreat indoors, more and more people are discovering the joy of gardening.
People are bringing the outdoors inside by growing plants inside their homes and
apartments. Growing plants is an excellent stress reliever as it can be very
rewarding to see your garden thrive. That explains why so many people have
turned to gardening to cope with home quarantine. Plants can contribute to the
health of your home. They improve the air quality inside your house and can help
manage the temperature. Some of the best indoor plants that are easy to grow (even
for beginners) and improve air quality are the snake plant, pothos, dracaena,
philodendron and aloe vera. These are all hardy indoor plants that are low
maintenance and thrive well inside. (Dayrit,2020)
Gardening is an excellent stress reliever for a combination of fascinating reasons:
exposure to fresh air and sunlight, relaxing and repetitive tasks, and even contact
with harmless bacteria in the soil that helps release serotonin in the brain.
Gardening and yard work are moderate-intensity exercises, which we all need
every day (for at least 30 minutes). While tending your family garden doesn't
require the vigorous activity of, say, running or playing singles tennis, it's still
beneficial to your body. (Holecko, 2020)
Engagement in such activities will allow adults working from home to take regular
breaks and reduce sedentary behavior; children studying remotely or being home-
schooled to reflect on their learning and reduce the stress associated with learning;
families to interact with each other in a meaningful way and reduce feelings of
helplessness and loneliness in older adults beyond the current climate. (Felton et
al., 2020)
Gardening offers numerous benefits that are often overlooked in a time where
convenience, instant gratification, and ease of accessibility tends to be the valued
habit or mindset. Gardening also increases creativity and inspiration; positively
improves participants ’mental well-being, establishes trust and close connections,
and increases cultural awareness; helps create a sense of home, cultural identity,
and belonging; and provides a safe, encouraging place to acquire new knowledge
while learning more about gardening. (Eng et al., 2019)
Through home gardening women have developed proficiency related to plants and
garden practices that helps them become better home and environment managers.
Their labor is indispensable to maintain the garden and to help keep production
cost low. As home managers, women have useful knowledge of numerous
domestic needs. By their involvement in the production process, they are able to
meet family needs more easily and economically. (Galhenaet al., 2013)
For the most of us daily work can be so much hassle and depressing day by day,
but by having plants inside your house it can help you lift up your mental health.
Engagement in gardening activities have shown to reduce depression, anxiety and
create strong family bond. Daily interactions with plants can increase self-esteem
although houseplant placing can be a hard one. There are a lot of indoor plant
mistakes that can derail our efforts but Growing houseplants in our homes brings
us a lot of joy and appreciation for natural beauty. Not only are they beautiful, they
also purify the air and create a serene atmosphere. (Lallo et al, 2020)

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