{"id":462,"date":"2023-01-19T16:52:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=462"},"modified":"2023-01-19T16:52:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:52:12","slug":"gardening-for-stress-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Gardening for Stress Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We could all use something to calm our nerves and help us relax.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>One of the best activities I find to ease anxiety is gardening. It\u2019s inexpensive, you can do it pretty much anywhere, it doesn\u2019t create pollution, and it can produce food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My neighbor (let\u2019s call her Amber) started gardening about two months ago when stress about the state of the world started to have a really negative impact on her mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I approached Amber to compliment the explosion of sunflowers and watermelon plants in her front yard, she told me that gardening helped her feel more in control of her life during this time of uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s something that I have 100% control of, so it makes me feel a little more in control of my life. The whole world is literally burning down, but my garden is going to thrive if I put the time and effort into it; but if I let it fail, it will fail,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s something to focus on when everything around you is negative and putting out negative energy, your plants and flowers are growing and thriving because you put in the effort. It just makes you feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amber told me that she started with a window garden, but after her cats started eating her plants, she moved to outdoor pots and eventually started planting in the ground. She has bell peppers, tomatoes, and jalape\u00f1os growing in her backyard and sunflowers and watermelons in her front yard. She hasn\u2019t grown anything edible yet, but the jalape\u00f1os look like they are almost ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGardening is definitely a learning experience if you\u2019ve never done it before,\u201d said Amber. \u201cBut it\u2019s definitely worth it. My biggest mistakes were growing too many plants in the same area and not having enough dirt when I started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last weekend, she had to move 11 plants to a new location after the melons \u201cstarted taking over.\u201d She\u2019s also struggling with sunflower plants expected to grow to 8 feet tall (she thought the package said 8 inches).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re interested in starting a garden to help ease anxiety, I suggest growing a few herbs you can use to make immune-boosting tea. Some of my favorites are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lemon balm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elderberry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Echinacea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marshmallow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linden tree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could all use something to calm our nerves and help us relax. &nbsp;One of the best activities I find to ease anxiety is gardening. It\u2019s inexpensive, you can do it pretty much anywhere, it doesn\u2019t create pollution, and it can produce food. My neighbor (let\u2019s call her Amber) started gardening about two months ago when stress about the state of the world started to have a really negative impact on her mental health. When I approached Amber to compliment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}