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Gardening for Mental Wellbeing | How Nature & Plants Improve Mood and Relaxation
Jan 27, 2022
This video explains how gardening and spending time around plants can support mental wellbeing and relaxation.
The guide covers simple gardening activities, connecting with nature, creating a calm growing space and building positive daily habits. It also explains why caring for plants can reduce stress and improve mood.
If you want to feel calmer and more positive while enjoying your garden, these simple practical ideas will help you use gardening as a relaxing and rewarding activity.
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Hey everyone and welcome to Gardening with Ben
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In today's episode we're going to be talking about gardening and mental health
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So sit back, relax, grab a coffee and I hope that you enjoy this episode
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so if you've been listening to my podcast or you may have seen my facebook or instagram posts
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i have been struggling a lot with mental health and i've not been uploading videos
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i've not been sharing live streams down at the allotment i've not been interacting
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much at all with my followers and I do apologise for that. I know I've been sent so many messages
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saying there's no need to apologise, do what's right for you but having so many followers
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on various platforms I do feel that I do have to apologise for not interacting as much as I
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should do. So I've been sent so many messages recently on Facebook and Instagram about the
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issues that I've been having and also people getting in touch saying that they've been
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struggling as well So for the last three months I have been struggling quite badly financially and mentally and yeah it been a struggle I had to give up the best job ever which was working
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in a garden centre doing what I love and enjoy but I'm now going back to working in IT which I've
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done for 16-17 years which I do really enjoy also. I just fancied a change working in a garden
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centre and trying to do the things that I enjoy but it's not worked out for me so hence the reason
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why I'm going back into IT. So that will mean that I'm going to be working four shifts on and
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four shifts off so it'll mean that I do get a lot more time to spend down at the allotment
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which is a bonus and obviously create more content and videos for you to watch
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and for you to enjoy really. One thing that I love about my page is creating the content
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for my followers sharing the tips and advice that I have. One thing about gardening is that not
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everybody knows everything about gardening. A lot of the stuff is what you've just picked up
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tried and if it's worked for you it could work for others. Nobody knows everything about gardening
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and they shouldn't make out that they know everything because like I say it might work
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for them but it might not work for other people so it's not always the written truth
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So I'm looking forward to creating more content make sure that you do let me know in the comments
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below what sort of content that you would like me to create as I looking at doing more content again i won be doing many lives at the moment so don mention the lives i do like doing pre stuff a lot easier as you can edit it and
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cut out the bits that you don't want whereas not being on the ball all the
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time answering questions what people have so i do like to pre-record a lot of my
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videos so let me know in the comments also on my instagram and facebook i've been sharing daily tips
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let me know if you enjoy them if they've been beneficial as it's good to see what people think
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of them i know again i've not been replying to the comments on the posts so hopefully i'll get
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back on and reply to them would you prefer them as pictures as they are or would you prefer them
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as a video of me explaining about the tip rather than just a picture as sometimes a
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video can be a bit better than just a picture explaining it really
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So I'm looking at doing more content. So yeah it's been a bad 3 months for me
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I've been on the allotment today. I went down to the plot this morning and I sorted out some of my cucumber plants
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I planted them outdoors this year as I hadn't got the time to go in my polytunnel and water them every day
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which they would need if they were growing in the polytunnel. So I'm not going to get as big a crop as I would normally do having them outside
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So I've been tidying them up and I've found that they've got some cucumbers on them
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I not had any off the plants yet so hopefully we do get some cucumbers off them which will be a bonus also I been looking at my plum tree i shared a picture on facebook today and instagram of some plums that i picked it victoria plum tree i had that
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in the plot since i gained the plot about 15 16 years ago and it's produced so many this year i
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didn't prune it at all this year which is possible why it's done so well it does need a prune for
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next year because it's getting too big so I do need to give it a good prune. So it's got so many
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plums on it I've only picked a few of them today and I can't wait to eat them as they are so tasty
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they're the best plums that you can grow. If you're wanting to grow a plum tree grow a Victoria plum
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tree as it will be absolutely beautiful and also I've been sorting out some of my squash and my
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pumpkins as they are growing really well now my pumpkins aren't particularly forming yet
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but they are growing so yeah they are doing pretty good so yeah hopefully i will be doing a lot more
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streams and videos for you as i've been letting the facebook down and youtube so make sure you do
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click that subscribe button to stay up to date with all the videos what i post on here and if
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want to support me if you're watching on youtube feel free to click the shop button below and have
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a look at all my t-shirts what are for sale so yeah as always i hope you're all well keep smiling
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and remember keep gardening and thank you so much for all the support and messages i have received
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it does mean the world to me thank you Thank you
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