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What Turns Me On About Vegetables Growing
Hi! My name is Jenny Wilson. I want to share some of my experience of growing vegetables with you.
A few months ago, I had no idea how to grow vegetables. And to be quite honest, apart from having some herbs in pots on the windowsill, I had never really considered my own vegetable garden. I hadn’t really seen the point of it. Vegetables are not as expensive as meat and I just had so little time!
Well, a couple of things happened within a few days of each other which set me thinking (often happens like that doesn’t it?). The first thing was we were having dinner at some friends house. The meal was amazing – they are great cooks – but they are also vegetarians. I complimented them on the food even my youngest, who hates vegetables normally, was asking for seconds. They confessed that their cooking was secondary to the lovely fresh, organic vegetables they used. They explained that the bought them at a local farmers market but the price of the organic vegetables was very high so they only went there a couple of times a month – kinda like a treat.
The second thing was an article in a lifestyle magazine. It reported how many shop-bought vegetables have traces of pesticides on them and within them as well in some cases so washing them is not really getting rid of the nasties. Thats scary. It recommended growing vegetables as an alternative.
But thats like hard work, isn’t it? Well, as I discovered, it doesn’t have to be and you don’t need a smallholding either.
I decided to do a little research. It was not as easy as I thought to find good solid information, but I persevered. I discovered that vegetables growing was possible in a relatively small area and growing vegetables in a small yard was perectly possible. I eventually found an extremely valuable resource and that was the Food4Wealth program written and designed by Jonathan White, an environmental scientist and horticulturist. He estimated that having a vegetable garden and growing your own organic vegetables could save a family up to $5000 a year in grocery bills. I did the math and he’s about right!
What impressed me, though, was what he said about the workload I imagined vegetables growing in the garden would be. I had imagined that a productive vegetable garden would take masses of time to look after and masses of hard work. Now, as the mother of four, I certainly don’t have a lot of time and, being ‘the wrong side of 40′, didn’t want to be doing hard labor every day!
As Jonathan explains, however, I could have my vegetable garden without the imagined digging, weeding and hard work and when its established takes only about 8 hours of light work a year!
We took action! We decided to go for it and take Jonathan at his word. We ploughed through his step-by-step manual and embarked on an easy action plan and to cut a long story short, we are now enjoying the fruits of our surprisingly little labor!
You can’t imagine the satisfaction, also, from preparing dishes and salads using your own garden produce.! Sounds corny I know, but it’s true. Especially when people comment on my cooking and I explain that its the ingredients that are special not my cooking.
Oh, and my vegetarian friends I mentioned at the start of this? Guess what they are up to in their yard these days!
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