Why we Plant Vegetable: Why we Plant Vegetable

We need to plant vegetable around you because you can save money and you can eat fresh and healthy.

There is all about my experience when I first fell in love with the idea of growing my own vegetables when I was still quite a young child. My grandfather was a keen gardener, and I was overawed at the neat rows of carrots, lettuce and cauliflower, and loved walking through a tunnel of runner beans and looking for the longest ones to take in for my grandmother to cook for dinner. His greenhouse smelt deliciously of tomato plants, and to this day, the smell of a tomato takes me back to the warm humid greenhouse in the corner of his garden.

It was due to my grandfather that I first asked my dad for a patch of garden to grow vegetables myself, and remember the first seeds I sowed and how proud I was to show my mum the radishes I had grown all by myself. My enthusiasm for growing vegetables has rubbed off on my own children, and deciding which vegetables to plant, preparing the ground, sowing and tending the plants and finally harvesting the produce and eating it, is a joint activity which we all enjoy!

Growing Vegetables Saves Money

Growing vegetables is a great way to save money by providing much of your own food, with just a little work. It's an integral part of my frugal living program.

The average American family spends about 15% of their disposable income on food. Less if you're single and more if you have a large family with 3 or more children.

The benefits of growing vegetables yourself:

You are assured fresh vegetables. A lot of vegetables lose at least some of their vitamins as soon as they are gathered, so being able to take them from the garden or balcony to the table in a matter of minutes, ensures you gain the maximum possible health benefits from your homegrown vegetables. The life healhty guide has some useful information on nutritional values of fresh vegetables together with recipe idea for all the most common homegrown vegetables.
Value for money. In just about every case it is much cheaper to grow your own vegetables, than to buy them at the local shop or supermarket. A few courgette (zucchini) seeds will grow into large plants which produce abundant crops. (Sometimes too many - last year we had so many courgettes, we were giving them away because we simply couldn't eat them as fast as they were ready for harvesting, and the freezer was already full!)
Growing vegetables which are not readily available in your area. For example, for some reason it is really difficult finding parsnips where we live, and when they do turn up in the shops, they are very expensive. So we grow our own - problem solved and roast parsnips galore at almost no expense!
You can grow organic vegetables. Growing vegetables organically simply means not using non-organic compost, fertiliser or pesticides. For people or children who are particularly sensitive to chemicals, this is a brilliant alternative to buying organic vegetables, and the cost is a fraction of that in shops.
Children actually learn where vegetables come from, how they grow and what they look like. Not only that, but they learn how to prepare vegetables for eating from scratch. Given that more and more children seem to have difficulty recognising basic vegetables, let alone know what to do with them, growing vegetables yourself is providing them with a valuable life skill and education - while they have fun and plenty of fresh air!

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011