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© Daniel Hughes

A new research study in the field of psychology has suggested that gardening activities help the children having special educational needs to express themselves in a better way and develop innovative abilities.

Royal Horticultural Society has concluded that, a number of adolescents having special educational needs who participated in gardening projects learnt at least fifteen new skills. These activities included different gardening related abilities, like planting, harvesting and making use of gardening tools in the right way. This study was dependent on the results in projects attended by 130 students in different learning centers.

The findings also show that gardening helped children to develop a friendly attitude, and it gives them catharsis from their frustrations. This in turn resulted in an applied way for them to get back to studies.

Sarah-Jane Mason, who is the project officer of RHS and co-author in this study, said that, "Gardening is an incredible activity for overcoming all the obstacles and offering children a different atmosphere to learn. He further added that gardening being a practical subject, makes learning fun for the child and unlocks a new world of possibility." It involves an active participation from all the children together which develops their social skills.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 1:22 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

© Paulo Brandão

I love gardening, but I don't like the mess. I keep my gardening tools in my small back room, for accessibility, but I have such a hard time cleaning up the inevitable dirt. I finally came to terms with the fact that the cement floor was one of the reasons it was so hard for me to clean up the dirt. So I had new flooring installed, by
Empire Today. They were referred to me by someone who had gotten carpet from Empire Carpett. The new surface makes cleaning up the dirt that I track in or spill so much easier. I was so pleased with the new floor that I also got new carpeting for the sun room, which is the next room in the house from my small gardening room. I can finally have carpeting in there since I now won't be tracking dirt from the gardening room. It's like the old saying, "The right tool for the job." I see that the same goes for flooring. Clean up can be difficult if it's not the right kind, but with the right kind, things go a lot smoother. I now take pleasure in keeping a nicely arranged garden room, with my shelves, my sink, my potting table, and my tool holder all well-placed. When I decided to put new flooring, I got inspired to also paint the room. So I did that prior to the floor installation. Now, it's like a breath of fresh air in my gardening room!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 9:33 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

© TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋)

Gardening in New Zealand is becoming more popular with a variety of families as a way to beat the high cost of living. Growing your own fruits and vegetables is a great way to avoid the food inflation which has become such an issue over the last couple of years, and it's possible to have a small garden in even a rental property.

You don't have to own acres of land to plant fruit trees, because some smaller fruit trees can be planted in half barrel containers. In several years these trees will produce bountiful crops of fruit which can be enjoyed for free by your family and lucky friends as well. Fruit trees like pipfruit and stonefruit grow well in New Zealand, and thee deciduous trees do best when they are planted in a dormant state in time for spring blossoming and summer fruiting.

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 8th, 2011 at 7:27 pm and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.