Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category

10 reasons to grow your own food

Planting vegetable gardens has become quite a popular trend. People are reclaiming what used to be a necessity before the rise of the modern supermarket. The 2009 Edibles Gardening Trends Research Report found that over 41 million U.S. households (38%!) planted a vegetable garden in 2009.

You might think you don’t have a green thumb, but anyone can plant a small garden and grow their own food.

Need some motivation? Here are 10 reasons to grow your own food.


Loads of potatoes

Just harvested close to 10 pounds of potatoes this year!

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Potatoes


Veggies coming up.

The peas are coming up nicely.
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So is the spinach.
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And lettuce.
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Country Wisdom & Know-How

This book has everything from how to raise bees, to how to make cheese to how to build a stone wall and loads of great recipes, too! With nearly 200 individual topics of country and self-sustained living this book has everything you need to live off the land. The only problem I have with it is the print is very tiny.


Living wall

Now this is cool!

The Vertical Garden, by Patrick Blanc, a French artist credited with inventing living walls.


A bountiful of carrots…

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carrots

These were all from my sons little garden that he looked after.