Save Your Sanity with a Spring Garden

Four Reasons to Get in the Garden this Spring

Can you see it? Can you feel it? Spring is on its way! For many, there comes with this reality a dread of allergy flareups and pesky pests returning from winter. But for others still, the approach of spring signals new life, growth, and the turning of a season. In spring, the sun seems warmer, neighbors seem friendlier, and life seems fresher.

We’re all coming out of an extended season of cold and isolation. Much like the fictional land of Narnia emerging from its perpetual winter, our world is breathing in the freshness of new life and exploring new boundaries. Attempting to retain or create a new normal during and after the pandemic will take some work. This spring carries the weight of so much more than the average burst of veg and bloom. This spring bears the burden of guiding our nation out of the hardship of the last year.

One amazing way to save your sanity and start anew this spring is with a spring garden! Don’t believe me? Ponder these four incentives for entering the world of gardening:

1. It adds to our home’s value.

When you go to the effort of reading up on, planning, and building the space for your back or front yard garden, the value of your property goes up. Not only do you get the following, long-term benefits from gardening, but you’re also creating an investment that will bring monetary return.

2. It teaches us how to realign our priorities.

Gardening and engaging with any outdoor activity has a way of reminding us what is important. The busyness of multiple schedules, or the mindlessness of binging tv shows just seem to melt away when we can get our hands in dirt and watch things grow.

3. It gives us time to heal.

The last year has taken a toll on countless people in a way that may not even be perceived for months or years to come. Allowing ourselves time and space to clear our heads and process reality brings healing. Taking time to go outside and weed a flower bed or pick fresh veg from the vine delivers moments of reflection as well as fresh air.

4. It allows us opportunity for connection.

Inviting friends, family, or neighbors to my yard to help me with garden tasks is a fun and creative way to connect with people. It’s always valuable to allow people to enter our lives in a way that shows them our victories (like that rose bush finally blooming), our failures (like the seedlings not sprouting), and our endeavors (like growing an herb to dry and use for loose leaf tea).