This year during the coming summer vacations your parents have decided to skip the annual family holiday. To spend your time usefully, you decide to take up gardening as a hobby. Write an article in 100 150 words on what you perceive are the benefits of taking up such a hobby.
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There are many hobbies but my most favourite hobby is gardening. We have a spacious bungalow and there is ample arable land attached to it. I have turned a fairly big plot into a fruit and vegetable garden. The garden is the scene of my activities when I return home after office hours.
My joy knows no bounds when I enter the garden. I dig the earth I manure it. I weed and hoe the plants. I prune the hedges. I sow the seeds. I water the tender plants. I watch the seeds germinate, grow and sprout.
I have planted various kinds of fragrant flowers, vegetables and a few fruit trees too.
My hobby gives me a good deal of bodily exercise. I keep physically a fiddle. I get fresh fruit and fresh vegetables at a nominal cost. My hobby brings me nearer nature.
I feel that there is a bond of union between nature’s heart and mine. I feel myself one with nature. Above all the joy of self-achievement is the greatest joy in the world.
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The Benefits Of Gardening -
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