Urban vegetable garden in Fremont (Seattle)Image by Satrina0 via Flickr

Vegetable gardening is certainly on the rise here in Canada and it’s really not much wonder that vegetable gardening is on the rise when you look at the economy these days. Anything that will make the trip to the grocery store less costly is a good thing isn’t it?

My wife and I didn’t start our vegetable garden to save money but when the economy started to slide we didn’t feel the pinch like some of our friends did. We are so happy we start gardening as a hobby.

The really cool part of vegetable gardening is that you can make mistakes and still save yourself money. Jen and I have a lot to learn but we are saving more than we are spending so imagine how much we will save once we learn all the little tips and tricks to a great and productive vegetable garden.

BTW: We share the tips we learn with our readers here at Backyard Gardening tips and we share what we grow with our neighbours if there is more than we can eat.

NOTE: Your first year of vegetable gardening can cost you more than later years as you will need a few tools that will help you get the job done without breaking your back.

Gardening tools do make your life easier so you get more done with less effort and that makes the investment well worth it.

To be even more efficient we chose to go with square foot gardening and with raised beds so we did have a few extra things to get but the resulting vegetable garden produces much more produce per square foot that using rows and to make a long sentence even longer using raised beds saved us a huge amount of time and energy preparing the clay soil we have.

What’s really cool to see are all the people that have started up their own backyard vegetable gardens to help keep expenses down. Then it turns into a hobby and then there’s no stopping us.

Since I have been walking around the neighbourhood we moved into three years, ooops four years ago, how time flies when you’re having fun, I have seen backyards converted from wasted space into fine looking veggie gardens. I know I am stretching the truth a bit here but it seems like half the people in our city have turned to backyard vegetable gardening.

So vegetable gardening is on the rise and you should take a crack at it. Start small, we started with tomatoes in containers, so that you are not overwhelmed and see how fast you get hooked on the great taste of garden fresh vegetables.

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