Gardening for fun - Trying your hand at growing your own fruit and vegetables

Roosemary growing in a front garden

If you are lucky enough to have a backyard garden or even space in your front yard such as flower beds, instead of letting this luscious green area go tot waste, why not try your hand at planting a few crops and vegetables that your whole family can enjoy. 

You can buy a few seeds from your local garden centre, throw in a few potatoes, fruits and vegetables that will grow in no time. In a matter of weeks and months you can be eating your very own gardening delights.

I am a bit of a garden enthusiast (I studied plant physiology with a little horticulture as part of my course at college), I have also grown a number of vegetables and fruit over the years, a few of the things I have grown in the past are potatoes, spinach and onions. My neighbour has successfully grown a large apple tree (cooking apples) , strawberries, tomatoes, grapes and a number of other things in her little garden. My other neighbour has successfully grown tomatoes in pots. We actually live in the city and it's not so hard to try and grow your own vegetables. My best friend has thyme in her garden, as well as pumpkin.

 Vegetable grow bags

The thing I like best about the whole project is that it's quite easy to grow a few things here and there for fun and you know exactly what your plants have been grown with by eliminating the pesticides that give us allergies and harmful side effects.

As a gardening enthusiast, it's quite easy to grow your own vegetables (no I'm not trying to put the farmers out of business, we can never grow enough to live on anyway) all you need are a few seeds from your local gardening centre, or in the case of potatoes, just put a few in the ground and in no time at all you'll have a few buckets full of potatoes that you can share with your neighbours.

It is a good hobby and will help to keep you fit, healthy and supple. Gardening is also great for relieving stress, and allows you to see the satisfaction of your hard work come to fruition.

You can also grow a number of plants and flowers which will make your garden look beautiful and smell wonderful with all tghe plant aromas.

 

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