Imagine stepping into a garden that not only nourishes your body but also feeds your spirit. Whether you’re an experienced gardener or just planting your first seeds, the way you care for your plants can transform your entire growing experience. More than just soil, sunlight, and water, a truly thriving garden is rooted in intention, connection, and love. Get ready to discover five unique practices that will help you grow a healthier, thriving garden—and build a deeper relationship with the natural world.
1. Pray Over Your Garden
There’s a reason for the saying, “what you sow, you shall reap,” and consistent prayer over your plants throughout their life cycle brings harmonious energy to your garden. They say water has a memory, and what are plants mostly made of? Water. Speaking life, gratitude, and abundance over your garden attracts extra assistance from the spirit realm into your harvest.
You’re no longer going it alone; you also have the universe’s support. You are not only speaking positivity into your garden, but you’re also creating a positive environment for yourself. Prayers of gratitude are known to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. The purpose of your garden isn’t just to provide sustenance and a rich harvest. It’s an act of spirituality that connects you with the divine feminine and engages the nurturing side of your being—taking just 5 minutes out of your day to thank your garden for providing sustenance and an opportunity to manifest the spiritual into the physical realm benefits both you and your garden.
Building a divine connection with your garden will boost your commitment to becoming a better gardener. You’ll need to. Every watering, fertilizing, and even the final composting after the harvest becomes thoughtful and deliberate. You will start to see that the journey itself is the real reward, not just the harvest. Remember, the harvest is simply the result of your efforts throughout the growing season. Even if your garden isn’t as successful as you’d hoped, cultivating gratitude and prayer is a success on its own.
2. Talk to Them
Talking to your plants is a wonderful way to build a bond and develop a sense of responsibility and ownership over your garden. Your plants become your friends, and we all need community to thrive. Taking time to chat with them while watering or checking on their health will boost their vigor and disease resistance because you’ll become a more vigilant steward of your garden. Next time you tend to your plants, stay a while, enjoy a cup of coffee, and have a conversation, and you’ll find yourself enjoying each other’s company more.
3. Stress Them Out
I know this might sound counterintuitive, but controlled stress makes plants more resilient. Just as applying controlled stress during exercise strengthens our bodies over time, the same principle applies to plants. Have you ever noticed how people who face adversity often emerge stronger? Your garden works in a similar way. Fruits become tastier, and flowers become more vibrant.
Going back to focusing on the journey, you’ll also learn what stress looks like in your individual plants. This will, in turn, make you a better gardener. Say you purposely skip a couple of waterings to induce a little stress in your tomatoes. Due to the lack of water, your tomato plants will try to survive. Their roots will grow deeper into the soil in search of nutrients, as it’s lacking where they are now. So not only have you learned what a stressed tomato plant looks like, but you’ve also strengthened its root system, creating a healthier, hardier plant.
This strong root system will now be able to absorb more water and nutrients from the soil. The stalks will thicken, your foliage and flowering will grow more, and the plant will be able to put more energy into growing fruit. Remember, though, just like too much exercise can hurt the body, overdoing it and stressing your plants too much can cause stunted growth and reduce their fruit production. A good rule of thumb is to do this only a few times during the growing season, when the plant is strong enough to handle a slight drought and isn’t actively trying to produce fruit.
4. Leave Them Alone
Just like with people, sometimes it’s best to relinquish control and let a plant recover on its own. This alleviates the stress of fussing over a problematic plant, allowing you to tend to other areas of your garden. Also, don’t be afraid of the outcome. If you eventually lose that plant, compost it and use it as fertilizer for your next crop. Unless this is your only plant, don’t worry— and even then, learn the lesson and move on. Gardening shouldn’t be a stressful endeavor but a spiritual one. Part of our spiritual journey is knowing when to let go, no matter how much we want something to survive.
5. Tell Them You Love Them/Say “I Love You.”
Love is a high-frequency vibration that heals. As stated earlier, water has a memory, and your plants are mostly water. So speaking positive affirmations, such as love, ingrains that message into your plants when done repeatedly. You also brainwash yourself into becoming a guardian of the garden, not merely a gardener. It also just feels good to express love, especially when it’s reciprocated. As a result, gardening becomes an expression of love rather than just growing plants. That way, there’ll be no regrets or resentments due to any outcomes because you acted out of love. You do the best you can by it when you love something, and let the cards fall where they may.
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