Reduce your blood pressure with container garden grounding

Reduce your blood pressure with container garden grounding:

With the current environment and stress in our busy lives, it is very easy for one to get aggravated, agitated, angry and thus easily get ungrounded and cause blood pressure to rise. Fast foods can cause you to spike your blood pressure and so also can non-vegetarian meat can, specially red meats.

There are many different ways to get ground oneself but gardening can definitely be one of them.  But at the same time, healthy foods can assist you to control your high blood pressure. Healthy mix of vegetables and soups can help keep a healthy diet. 

The element of earth is grounding and supports one when you work with it. During the process of planting seeds, saplings, you directly engage with this element of earth. Contact with this element grounds one's self. While you work with your plants be it vegetables, flowers or herbs, even though it can sometimes be a good physical activity, it will relax you at the end of the container planting. 

Flowers and blooms fill the air with fragrance that can attract beautiful birds and butterflies. This can relax the mind and the body, thus can relax and reduce blood pressure in turn.

Select the vegetable or vegetables that you would like to grow in your garden space. The garden space can be a small terrace area in your apartment or balcony area of your apartment, or a garden area around your house. 

Personalize this small or big garden space for you, for people who like cooking, herb garden can be a good starting point, for women(specially Indians) who like flowers for Puja, flower garden can be good idea, for serious people who want grow vegetables for health vegetable garden is great idea. 

Thus whatever the choice be for your garden, your container garden can help you stay grounded, keep your blood pressure under check and  help stay healthy!!!

 

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                                           Jasmine or Mogra for fragrance and Puja

                                                    

                                           Tray of typical container garden flowers and vegetables

Mother's Day Container Gardening Gift

 

Mother's Day Container Gardening:

In every religion, mother is important. Mother in Hindu religion is treated as first Guru. Mother in India is called 'Aai', 'Maa', 'Amma', and many different names. Mother plays a very important role as we all know in a person's life. 

All mothers work tirelessly for their kids' well-being, health and prosperity. While you can gift your mother many things ranging from useful kitchen items to flowers to chocolates on Mother's Day, it will be a unique gift on Mother's Day to gift your mother something fragrant. 

Container garden is a good gift on Mother's Day, you can start small with one or two pots of combination of flower and vegetable/herb garden. In India, cilantro is commonly used in garnishing vegetable dishes and vegetarian curries. For example, it is easy to grow herbs like cilantro and very useful as it is used in daily cooking. Similarly in the Western world, growing herbs like parsley, thyme, oregano, etc. might be a good idea for great vegetarian pasta, pizza and other tasty mouthwatering dishes. 

Select the vegetable or vegetables that you would like to grow in your garden space. The garden space can be a small terrace area in your apartment or balcony area of your apartment, or a garden area around your house. If your garden space is limited, you can grow simple herbs or simple vegetables like green beans that can be grown easily in smaller containers.

While flowers are important and give joy to people around the world, in India for mothers, it is one of the most important things to do for their daily worship/puja. There is nothing better to grow than to grow your own Puja flowers in your small balcony, terrace, apartment area or garden area around your house that can bring lot of joy, happiness, relaxation and fragrance to her and her loved ones.

Thus, this Mother's Day, gifting her fragrant container garden whether it is jasmine/mogra, herbs like cilantro, parsley that is useful to your mother will make her happy!!!

                                                                Jasmine/Mogra plant

                                                     Home grown cilantro for daily cooking