Gardening, growing and caring for plants as an enjoyable leisure activity, to produce food, or to create beautiful landscapes with artfully arranged flowers, shrubs, and trees. For some, gardening is a form of exercise, a way to save money on food, or a way to ensure that fruits and vegetables are free from pesticides or other chemicals. For others, gardening is a profession: landscape gardeners design, install, and maintain gardens for a living (see Landscape Architecture). Unlike farmers, who typically produces large quantities of crops using complex equipment, such as tractors and combines, gardeners usually produce plants in smaller quantities, relying on manual tools, such as spades, rakes, and hoes, and small power tools, such as mowers and tillers.Evidence of gardening dates back to 6000 bc. For much of history, functional gardens were more important than pretty ones—people relied on their gardens not only for fruits and vegetables but also for plants used to make medicines and dyes. Elaborate, decorative gardens were found only on the estates of rulers and wealthy people who had slaves or servants to tend the gardens. Gardening for pleasure did not become widespread until the development of the middle class, around AD 1500. With money and time to spare, many began to create gardens for enjoyment, not simply out of necessity, foreshadowing the present-day popularity of gardening as a recreational activity.
Today gardening is practiced all over the world. With a little soil, some seeds, and a few basic tools, even inexperienced gardeners can enjoy the rewards of creating a garden and watching it grow. Gardeners with more experience and time can delve more deeply, carrying out research to select appropriate plants, and learning about the particular requirements for each type of plant. The more gardeners apply what they learn, the more their gardens thrive and grow.
Here some knowledge that you need to prepare before setup your secret garden
- Soil Knowledge and Treatment
- Gardening tools
- Planting and Sowing
- Selecting Plant for your garden
- Fertilizing and How to composting
- Pests and How to Control
- Watering
- Landscape Design
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