Grow Your Own For A Fresher Taste
Growing your own vegetables has numerous benefits for you and your family. The biggest benefit is the difference in nutrition you will get from freshly picked produce. Shop bought fruit and vegetables have often travelled long distances and been stored in coolers for several days before it arrives on your dinner table, thus reducing the nutritional benefits.
Growing your own will also reduce your weekly food bills. Instead of paying out over the counter each week, you can meet your needs by picking items fresh from your kitchen garden.
Kitchen gardens are easy to start. You may think you can’t achieve one because you have a patio area with no beds to plant in. All you need instead are large pots or containers. These are particularly useful if you have limited mobility as there is less need to bend to low levels as you can place the pots on benches or tables for better access.
If you have a small garden you might want to think about taking on an allotment, or maybe asking a neighbour for an area in their garden in return for a share of the produce. Many people don’t use all of their garden effectively and would welcome the opportunity to have someone to keep it for them.
Just think how nice it will be to go out and pick something you have grown with your own hands, cook it, and present it to your family.
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Hi Kitchen Bloggers,
I used to work on the markets years ago selling Fruit and veg’ and the majority of produce bought at markets and from stores has been in cold storage for a matter of weeks, sometimes longer.
Growing your own has so many benefits, healthy eating, lower costs, seasonal products, fewer shopping trips and the flavours are so much better. Not to mention the pleasure of actually growing your food from seeds.
I did have a vegi’ patch when I moved in but a weed called horses tail put paid to that so I had to have the area covered in paving slabs. I’m hoping to install some raised beds this summer and start growing my own again.
I like the look of your new site and wish you every success with it.
Thanks Kitchen Bloggers,
Barry
Good luck with your kitchen garden, Barry. Raised beds are great for avoiding bad backs! They are also easier to keep free from weeds, although ‘digging the frost in’ isn’t so easy! My Grandad always used to say that – dig the frost in one spade deep for the best growing results.
Glad you like the site, do call again.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
Hi Mandy
Like Barry I also grew my own fruit and veg many years ago but lazyness took over. I had a fairly large plot in my garden devoted to it. A shame really because the taste is certainly better than supermarket fodder.
Bill
Hi Bill, I must admit vegetables (and gardening in general) takes up a lot of time. I do agree they have such a great flavour though.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
My grandfather never used that term, “digging the frost in.” I don’t think he ever thought about gardening. My grandmother did all the shopping, cooking and anything else that needed doing. They were very traditional people from Italy.
When I was a teenager, my grandfather would make me a special chicken leg sauteed in magical potions he never would reveal to me. The chicken leg was so good that I would suck the bone. I’ve tried to duplicate his method, but never have created the exact taste he made. It was so good that I can still taste it.
I don’t have a yard for growing, but I do grow special veggies in pots on my patio. I’ve raised tomatoes of all sorts in pots. Never could get those hanging tomatoes to grow, though. Right now I am growing garlic in several pots. I tried to grow sweet potatoes in a huge pot, but all I got was a few the size of my little finger.
Growing vegetables is one of my strongest passions. This spring and summer I will be growing herbs and salad vegetables. I’ve got a rosemary bush in a pot right now and I love to walk by it, rub my hand over the needles and smell that glorious herb.
I agree with every comment here. Growing your own food is way better than supermarket food, which is tasteless if you compare it with home grown.
Pat
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Hi Pat, good for you for growing your own! Don’t they taste so good straight out of the earth.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy