Planting and our environment

by Bharath Srinivas June 01, 2017

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Different Plants we can grow at home

1. Chives

Chives are a commonly used herb and can be found in grocery stores or grown in home gardens. In culinary use, the scapes and the unopened, immature flower buds are diced and used as an ingredient for fish, potatoes, soups, and other dishes. Chives have insect-repelling properties that can be used in gardens to control pests

2. Holy Basil (Tulsi)

Tulsi

Tulasi is cultivated for religious and medicinal purposes, and for its essential oil. It is widely known across the Indian subcontinent as a medicinal plant and a herbal tea, commonly used in Ayurveda, and has an important role within the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, in which devotees perform worship involving holy basil plants or leaves. This plant is revered as an elixir of life.

3. Ladies Finger (Okra)

Ladies finger

Okra is better known by its common name as ladies finger or Gumbo. This high fiber vegetable is known for its high soluble and insoluble fiber content. This vegetable is usually used in many recipes and is also a part of many nutritional diets, as it is beneficial to the heart. Let us quickly look at some of the key okra health benefits.

4. Tomato

tomato

One of the amazing things about tomatoes is the wide variety and quantity of nutrients they provide. So they aren't just good - they're good for you, too, supplying excellent amounts of fiber, vitamins A, C (to resist infections), and K, potassium (controlling heart rate and blood pressure), and manganese. Good amounts of vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol), thiamin, niacin, Vitamin B6, folate, magnesium, phosphorus, and copper are other resources.

5. Money Plant

Money Plant

Money plants are evergreen climbers that can grow up to 20 m high, requiring no extensive care. They are very easy to grow, both in soil and water filled bottles, jars, and any container. Money plant care is quite easy and needs no expertise.

It’s no secret that trees help the environment, but you may be surprised by all the benefits that planting trees can provide. Besides producing oxygen and removing carbon dioxide and contaminants from the air, trees have many other social, economic, and environmental benefits.

Plants provide oxygen

Excess carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by many factors is a building up in our atmosphere. Plants absorb CO2, removing and storing the carbon while releasing the oxygen back into the air. In one year, an acre of mature plants absorbs the amount of CO2 produced when you drive your car 26,000 miles. In one year an acre of mature Plants can provide enough oxygen for 18 people.

Plants are productive

Plants are the main source of our food. We use different parts of different plants as food.

Roots of some plants we eat (Carrot, Radish)
Leaves of some plants we eat (Spinach, Radish)
Cereals of some plants we eat (Rice, wheat)
Pulse of some plants we eat (Grams, Peas)
Fruits of some plants we eat (Apple, Mango) and etc..

We have listed only a few uses of plants, From root to tip plants are useful.

Plants are useful but it's important to grow plants. we are on the verge of a state where oxygen content is becoming less and it's time to see oxygen booth(Bar) in most of the places.