Container garden for puja flowers, relaxation, health for the elderly and old age homes

Container garden for the elderly people and old age homes:

Whether it is in India, America, Europe or Africa, people from all walks as they age, many different physical body related issues can arise. Some of the common issues that arise as people get old are diabetes, high blood pressure and arthritis. 

Gardening is for all, for some gardening can be a good exercise to keep them healthy, fit and thus keeping their blood pressure under control, for some it could be a good activity to keep themselves fit with good hand, eyes and body coordination movement. At the same time, simple vegetables like methi that can be easily grown is small pots or containers is useful for people with diabetes or high blood sugar. If space permits in your home, chilies are simple and easy to grow that are good for avoiding cancer.

Gardening is a good daily routine, be it regular watering of plants, picking flowers for Puja, for ladies it can be a combination of puja flowers and kitchen garden where it can be picking cilantro leaves which is normally used in Indian cooking for garnishing curries. Similarly picking methi leaves or seeds or even picking green chilies for your home garden can become part of daily cooking routine that will give fresh flavor and health. 

For western world, where the garden space might be bigger, it can be easier to grow tomatoes, herbs green chilies,wonderful vegetarian pasta, vegetarian pizza, pizza and pasta sauce using home tomatoes and other tasty mouthwatering vegetarian dishes and vegetarian lettuce and herbs salad. 

Select the vegetables or flowers for your flower garden 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.

For old age homes catering to old aged parents  or old people, making a small area for container garden will be a good idea depending on the size of  your home or the old age home. 

If you have any old age homes near you and would like to help, below is one of them which is accepting donation of garden material like plant saplings and other things like pots, potting mix and others. Please reach out to the NGO before to make sure that they are accepting those things and are useful to them. 

https://serudsindia.org/what-to-donate-apart-from-money-in-india/

                                                Flowers from the Puja garden

Jasmine or Mogra plant

What to Donate Apart From Money to Old Age Home

Hibiscus flower for puja worship

                    

                                       Shree Krishna Tulsi and Puja flowers from the Puja Garden

                                                Methi for diabetes or high blood sugar 

                                                            Bucket of cilantro

                                        Puja flowers from container garden in old age home

                    

                                                    Healthy vegetables from vegetable garden