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== See also ==
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* [[4 by 8 beginners permaculture garden]]
* [[AEF spiral herb garden]]
* [[Bag gardens]]
* [[Balcony garden]]
* [[Balcony gardens]]
* [[Beginners permaculture garden]]
* [[Community garden]]
* [[Community gardening]]
* [[Community gardens]]
* [[Container gardening]]
* [[Deidre's vertical vegetable garden]]
* [[El Jardín Mágico de las Niñas/In the garden lesson plan]]
* [[Forest gardening]]
* [[Guerrilla gardening]]
* [[Guerrilla gardening/Mabolo]]
* [[Guerrilla gardening/Papaya]]
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* [[Herb garden]]
* [[How to start a community garden]]
* [[Humboldt organic gardening gallery]]
* [[Indoor gardening]]
* [[Keyhole garden]]
* [[Keyhole gardens]]
* [[Laurel Tree Charter School project growth garden]]
* [[Laurel Tree project growth garden]]
* [[Lazy gardening]]
* [[Lazy gardens]]
* [[Locally Delicious garden addition for kids and adults]]
* [[Locally Delicious school garden]]
* [[Making the most of a home garden]]
* [[Mandala garden]]
* [[Mumbai Port Trust terrace garden]]
* [[Organic gardening]]
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* [[Ornamental gardens]]
* [[Permaculture garden in Cook County]]
* [[Pkb7's gardening tips from the Arcata Educational Farm]]
* [[Rain gardens]]
* [[Raised bed gardens]]
* [[Raised garden bed]]
* [[Raised garden beds]]
* [[Solar powered vertical vegetable garden]]
* [[Spiral herb garden]]
* [[Urban gardening]]
* [[Veg Out community gardens, Melbourne]]
* [[Vegetable garden]]
* [[Vertical garden]]
* [[Vertical gardens]]
* [[Victory gardens]]
* [[Wick gardening]]
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== Interwiki links ==
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Revision as of 01:52, 25 April 2013

Gardening is the practice of tending a garden. Gardening is often a domestic activity and is often done by the people who also directly benefit from it (unless they employ a gardener). By contrast, agriculture and horticulture focus on commercial value.

Benefits

A network of crops grown near the house helps to further ensure regional food security and encourages self-sufficiency and cooperative interdependence within communities.[1] With every bite of food raised from urban gardens, negative environmental impacts are reduced in numerous ways. For instance, vegetables and fruits raised within small-scale gardens and farms are not grown with tremendous applications of nitrogen fertilizerW required for industrial agricultural operations. The nitrogen fertilizers cause toxic chemical leaching and runoff that enters our water tables. Nitrogen fertilizer also produces nitrous oxide, a more damaging greenhouse gas than carbon dioxideW. Local, community-grown food also requires no imported, long-distance transport which further depletes our fossil fuel reserves.[2] In developing more efficiency per land acre, urban gardens can be started in a wide variety of areas: in vacant lots, public parks, private yards, church and school yards, on roof tops (roof-top gardensW), and many other places. Communities can work together in changing zoning limitations in order for public and private gardens to be permissible.[3] Aesthetically pleasing edible landscaping plants can also be incorporated into city landscaping such as blueberry bushes, grapevines trained on an arbor, pecan trees, etc.[4] With as small a scale as home or community farming, sustainable and organic farming methods can easily be utilized. Such sustainable, organic farming techniques include: composting, biological pest controlW, crop rotationW, mulching, drip irrigation, nutrient cyclingW and permaculture.[5] For more information on sustainable farming systems, see sustainable agriculture.

Navigation

To browse Appropedia's information on gardening, view the "horticulture and gardening" category, below.

The agriculture category will be useful for specific crops and techniques:

Horticulture and gardening category Agriculture category

See also

References

  1. Flores, H.C. Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community. New York: Chelsea Green, 2006.
  2. Nyerges, Christopher. Urban Wilderness: a guidebook to resourceful city living. Culver, CA: Peace Press, 1979.
  3. Hemenway, Toby. Gaia’s Garden. New York: Chelsea Green, 2000.
  4. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Todd, J 1994
  5. Warde, Jon, ed. The Backyard Builder: Over 150 Projects for Your Garden, Home and Yard. New York: Random House, 1994.

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