Improve your quality of life. One of the best ways to stay healthy is to eat more fruits and vegetables. The vitamins in vegetables will be at their highest when you pick them from your garden. It will be more likely for kids to try the vegetables if they are involved in the gardening process.
What are the advantages of growing your own food? Vegetables are easy to grow with the help of the soil and the sun. A productive vegetable garden can be built without a large yard. The smallest part of a garden can be turned into a flourishing and bountiful patch that can feed you and your family.
The environment of the garden is in your control. If you have a problem with pests or disease, there is usually an organic remedy that can be used. In the worst-case scenario, you pull the plants and plant something else in their place, chalking that particular crop up to a learning experience. Just plant something else in their place and try again.
Health benefits, better flavor, and satisfaction of knowing how they were produced are some of the reasons you should grow vegetables.
It is rewarding to grow fresh, delicious produce. It offers many of the same benefits as other gardening activities with the added bonus of being able to enjoy eating the bounties you create. Many gardeners find that their produce tastes better than what they can buy at a supermarket. This is due not only to the freshness of the produce. Supermarkets will choose crops based more on how well it stores in transit and aesthetics rather than taste. With home grown produce you are getting things just how nature intended. You plant it, watch it grow, harvest and enjoy.
Decide on what plants you will want to grow in your garden. Look in a gardening guide for the tag that comes with the plant. Each plant should have a certain amount of sun exposure to flourish.
There is no comparison between the taste of a tomato bought at the grocery store and the taste of a tomato picked from the garden. A lot of the produce in US grocery stores was grown far away. The quality of the food degrades over time in transit.
The best reason to grow your own vegetables is that you control what goes onto your food. Produce doesn't get any fresher than a few feet from the garden to the kitchen. There are some unique advantages to growing produce in your backyard.
Since you won't have to travel a long way to get your food, your diet becomes more sustainable. This is the way humans did things for countless generations before us as we are just tapping back into that.
Whether you have an acre of land or a few pots on a balcony, gardening helps you all live healthier. You can enjoy many benefits from gardening, including fresh vegetables, flowers, and aromatic herbs. You don't have to wait for your plants to bloom in order to see the benefits. A sense of satisfaction that comes from working the land with your hands, family bonding, and fun are some of the things that are instantaneous.
Is growing your own food worth the time and effort? When you can buy produce at a grocery store, why garden?
You will have the peace of mind of knowing exactly how your food was grown, because it has been created with your own hands. You guide every step of the way ensuring what you make are just to your specifications. That is the idea anyway. Things don't always go to plan but that is part of the joy of gardening, learning a valuable life skill.
Growing your own food encourages you to eat more fruits and vegetables and engages you in a relationship with your food. When you are buy from the store you are disconnected from the chain of production. It is a much more earthy and natural experience to eat the produce you created. It reconnects you to your roots.
Gardening can be an engrossing hobby in and of itself and that you can enjoy the fruits of your labor is a big added bonus. Food production adds a whole new level of satisfaction to an already greatly rewarding hobby.
While growing the food itself may cost very little if you are building a productive garden from scratch then the cost can add up. This is taking into consideration creating the beds and the soil and tool requirements. With some planning though you can easily do so on a budget. Since this is your garden, you are the one who decides how much or how little you spend on it.
It is more a case of planning within your means and planning things out properly so as to not waste money and rather get off to a great start. Limiting the costs while maximizing yield is the trick to saving money in a vegetable garden.
Here is an example. It costs about $1.50 a pound for broccoli. You can get a fair amount of broccoli for the price, because the central head weights range from 0.2 to 1 pound. Many side shoots will grow below the central head after it is cut. You can grow about $30 worth of broccoli for a cost of $10 in soil allocation if you grow ten broccoli plants. The amount of money saved is not enough to get excited about, but the convenience of having fresh-picked broccoli is made by your own hand is much more valuable.
Food waste is a big problem in many US homes. Most people do not value things they did not put any effort into making. When growing your own food you have a vested interest in using it.
If you have a garden, you can reduce the miles your food travels, avoid associated packaging. The more components involved in making your food and bringing it to your plate, the larger the wider impact. Making your own food means that things stay within your own small sphere, which is much more sustainable.
Growing your own food is a great way to cut down on packaging waste. Think of all that nasty plastic packaging which store bought fruit and vegetables are usually stored in that you can happily say goodbye to.
We recommend starting with lettuces and herbs, both of which are easy to grow and are some of the most commonly wasted food. Even with limited space, you can grow your own food and enjoy a healthy vegetable garden, giving you and your family sustenance each and every day.