How to Grow Your Own Veggies
Gardening is an occupation that many people either love or hate. Most people find that an attractive garden really enhances or frames your house and if you want your property to increase in value having a nice garden will often do just that. However even in spite of the benefits of having an attractive garden many people find gardening hard work or a chore they loathe.
But there is more to gardening than having an attractive lawn or flower beds and borders, there is having a garden where you can grow your own veggies, especially if you do it organically. Don't under estimate the value of eating your own vegetables to either your health, your wealth or the environment.
You don't need a large garden either to grow your own vegetables. You can grow them amongst the flowers in the border, you can grow them in containers or planters on the patio. You can grow them up a wall (beans, and berry fruit canes or even grapes if the wall is sunny and sheltered). You can grow them in hanging baskets, strawberries and tomatoes are fine grown like this. You can place the containers and planters on the patio or the wood decking if space is a problem. You can grow herbs on window sills. There are so many places where you can grow things its just down to what is possible for you and your imagination.
There is nothing to equal the flavour or the joy when the food is picked and eaten, when it goes from the vine to the pot to the plate. Or a fresh salad with sun ripened tomatoes, home grown cucumbers and lettuces, beetroot and even your own peppers. Or fresh berry fruit desserts with cream, yoghurt or ice-cream. We are eating fresh alpine strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and mulberries right at the moment, 9th July 2011. We have been eating the berry fruits since 26th June, and can already feel the improvement in our immune systems.
These days are uncertain days, the economic crisis seems to deepen and depression could be just around the corner, and its just no use relying on 'the government' to turn things around. Weather patterns too are becoming quite bizarre, from dreadful things like earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, fires, tornadoes, hurricanes etc. One wonders what is coming and it makes one a little uncertain of what the future really does hold for all of us.
But one thing is a certainty that food prices will continue to rise as the wheat harvest and the rice harvest are said to be only two thirds of what they should be - and yet the worlds population continues to increase. With that in mind many of my friends are trying their hands at growing their own vegetables, and finding it easier than they had expected. Especially if they grow the vegetables in containers or dedicated planters. Containers don't need digging and weeding is generally much easier.
Growing your own vegetables need not be the back-breaking job that most people think vegetable gardening is. My husband read a book on self-sufficiency, by John and Sally Seymour, many years ago and as a result he bought our present house, that has an acre of garden and we have been growing our own vegetables ever since. We haven't put a huge area to grow vegetables because whilst he was working he felt that it was hard work, and once he retired he had health issues that stopped him from doing as much as he wanted to do. But we use an area of the garden that formerly had a glass house on it until it blew down during the hurricane of 1987 - an area of 60' x 12' and the soil is so well prepared that it is no longer a struggle to dig it. We avoid walking on the soil as much as we can to stop impacting it, and we fertilize it by using our own compost and ash from the wood burner that heats our house.
However as we grow older trying to cope with a large garden and growing vegetables the traditional method is proving hard work and we have been discussing down-sizing. We don't really want to do this as the garden has been a huge part of our lives, so lately I have been researching the internet to see if there is an easier way to grow your own food.
I found the following review called Food4Wealth, which I found very interesting and intriguing. The review stated that Food4Wealth is a very practical guide which teaches you all you need to know on how to grow vegetables and organic food with the minimum of fuss and effort. It says you can grow all you need for your family and it will only take you eight hours a year. That sounds very intriguing indeed, as takes me longer to just pick all the beans, tomatoes and berry fruits and the other veggies we grow. Jonathan White gives a fully illustrated step-by-step manual and over 60 minutes of video, as well. He says we must learn to grow vegetables by using the ecological method and forget the traditional methods that we are
If you would like to know more about this Food4Wealth than why don't you try this link http://howtogrowyourownveggies.weebly.com
But there is more to gardening than having an attractive lawn or flower beds and borders, there is having a garden where you can grow your own veggies, especially if you do it organically. Don't under estimate the value of eating your own vegetables to either your health, your wealth or the environment.
You don't need a large garden either to grow your own vegetables. You can grow them amongst the flowers in the border, you can grow them in containers or planters on the patio. You can grow them up a wall (beans, and berry fruit canes or even grapes if the wall is sunny and sheltered). You can grow them in hanging baskets, strawberries and tomatoes are fine grown like this. You can place the containers and planters on the patio or the wood decking if space is a problem. You can grow herbs on window sills. There are so many places where you can grow things its just down to what is possible for you and your imagination.
There is nothing to equal the flavour or the joy when the food is picked and eaten, when it goes from the vine to the pot to the plate. Or a fresh salad with sun ripened tomatoes, home grown cucumbers and lettuces, beetroot and even your own peppers. Or fresh berry fruit desserts with cream, yoghurt or ice-cream. We are eating fresh alpine strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and mulberries right at the moment, 9th July 2011. We have been eating the berry fruits since 26th June, and can already feel the improvement in our immune systems.
These days are uncertain days, the economic crisis seems to deepen and depression could be just around the corner, and its just no use relying on 'the government' to turn things around. Weather patterns too are becoming quite bizarre, from dreadful things like earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, fires, tornadoes, hurricanes etc. One wonders what is coming and it makes one a little uncertain of what the future really does hold for all of us.
But one thing is a certainty that food prices will continue to rise as the wheat harvest and the rice harvest are said to be only two thirds of what they should be - and yet the worlds population continues to increase. With that in mind many of my friends are trying their hands at growing their own vegetables, and finding it easier than they had expected. Especially if they grow the vegetables in containers or dedicated planters. Containers don't need digging and weeding is generally much easier.
Growing your own vegetables need not be the back-breaking job that most people think vegetable gardening is. My husband read a book on self-sufficiency, by John and Sally Seymour, many years ago and as a result he bought our present house, that has an acre of garden and we have been growing our own vegetables ever since. We haven't put a huge area to grow vegetables because whilst he was working he felt that it was hard work, and once he retired he had health issues that stopped him from doing as much as he wanted to do. But we use an area of the garden that formerly had a glass house on it until it blew down during the hurricane of 1987 - an area of 60' x 12' and the soil is so well prepared that it is no longer a struggle to dig it. We avoid walking on the soil as much as we can to stop impacting it, and we fertilize it by using our own compost and ash from the wood burner that heats our house.
However as we grow older trying to cope with a large garden and growing vegetables the traditional method is proving hard work and we have been discussing down-sizing. We don't really want to do this as the garden has been a huge part of our lives, so lately I have been researching the internet to see if there is an easier way to grow your own food.
I found the following review called Food4Wealth, which I found very interesting and intriguing. The review stated that Food4Wealth is a very practical guide which teaches you all you need to know on how to grow vegetables and organic food with the minimum of fuss and effort. It says you can grow all you need for your family and it will only take you eight hours a year. That sounds very intriguing indeed, as takes me longer to just pick all the beans, tomatoes and berry fruits and the other veggies we grow. Jonathan White gives a fully illustrated step-by-step manual and over 60 minutes of video, as well. He says we must learn to grow vegetables by using the ecological method and forget the traditional methods that we are
If you would like to know more about this Food4Wealth than why don't you try this link http://howtogrowyourownveggies.weebly.com
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