Home Vegetable Gardening
Sunday, April 5th, 2009An Australian TV program "Sixty Minutes" (http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/), recently aired a story titled “Backyard Revolution” by Reporter: Liz Hayes."
A quote from the story “So, if you've had enough of tasteless vegetables, fruit that's been sitting in a freezer somewhere for months and packaged food with less flavour than the cardboard it's wrapped in, why not join the world-wide revolution. Grow your own, turn your backyard into a fruit and vege garden.” http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=797223
The story highlighted a new phenomenon of “Home Vegetable Gardening“ within the city environments in both backyards and inner-city areas that can be made available including run down tennis courts. There seems to be a growing resurgence of growing natural and healthy home – grown food for greater nutrition and awareness of what we are actually eating.
The supermarket produce may not be as fresh as it could be, thus not as nutritious as fresh food straight from the garden. Home Vegetable Gardening can be set up to produce food all year round that is both cost effective and plentiful. The benefits of home gardening may include “cheaper”, with a greater emphasis on fresher, healthier with nutrition.
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The main goal to having a home vegetable garden is to save money by growing your own food that is both healthy and fresh, as well as having food that is free from additives.
Well maybe easier said than done, the eBook outlines guidelines for working towards the goal of having a consistent supply of healthy home grown food by first learning about a planting plan before starting.
The ebook indicates that to have a productive garden requires a systematic approach and constructive plan to work smarter and not harder.
Working harder could lead to frustration from unsatisfactory results by making mistakes by not knowing the correct course of action. By working smarter means learning and knowing the what, why and how and applying the information with appropriate action using systemised methods.
The ebook "Home Vegetable Gardening” does provide a step by step approach to what has to be done by when, from the garden location selection, to the soil preparation and what varieties of vegetables are appropriate to sow for various times of the year. The activities are looked as a big picture format and discussed under the headings, planting plan, planting table, check list and garden record. The follow content chapters are from Part One of the ebook.
PART ONE
I Introduction
II Why You Should Garden
III Requisites Of The Home Vegetable Garden
IV The Planting Plan
V Implements And Their Uses
VI Manures, Fertilizers And Mulching
VII The Soil And Its Preparation
An extract from Chapter II “Why You Should Garden”
“The big thing, the salient feature of home gardening is not that we may get our vegetables ten per cent cheaper, but that we can have them one hundred per cent better.“
An extract from Chapter III “Requisites Of The Home Vegetable Garden”
“In the average moderate-sized place there will not be much choice as to land. It will be necessary to take what is to be had and then do the very best that can be done with it. But there will probably be a good deal of choice as to, first, exposure, and second, convenience. Other things being equal, select a spot near at hand, easy to access. It may seem that a difference of only a few hundred yards will mean nothing, but if one is depending largely upon spare moments for working in and for watching the garden–and in the growing of many vegetables the latter is almost as important as the former–this matter of convenient access will be of much greater importance than is likely to be at first recognized. Not until you have had to make a dozen time-wasting trips for forgotten seeds or tools, or gotten your feet soaking wet by going out through the dew-drenched grass, will you realize fully what this may mean. “
Chapter III also goes into the topics Exposure, The Soil, Drainage, Soil Antecedents, and Other Considerations.
An extract from IV The Planting Plan
“In the new way of gardening there are four great helps, four things that will be of great assistance to the experienced gardener, and that are indispensable to the success of the beginner. They are the Planting Plan, the Planting Table, the Check List and the Garden Record.”
Imagine being able to Enjoy fresh healthy food all year round that is practically free from budget restraints. Wouldn't that be great?
Or what about if you could just walk out to the side garden to pick out a few items for fresh foods that you know are free from chemicals and additives.
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