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For the previous 5 or 6 years I’ve watched more and more people turn to vegetable gardening to save a few dollars on grocery day. I believe the reason for the rise in veggie gardening  is because of our economy and lack of job security, as well as the lack of pay increases today. It’s basically why we started growing vegetables in our backyard.

Like so many others we were feeling the economic pinch and saw something somewhere that suggested starting a garden to grow vegetables. Grow a little, save a little.

We Actually Grew Vegetables And Saved Some Money

I pay much attention to how Dad grew his vegetable garden when I was a kid, as I was more into eating that figuring out how to grow veggies. Although I do remember crawling around the garden on my hands and knees pulling weeds. Our first year gardening has some mistakes but we had great results on our very first year.

We All Make Mistakes, Fix Them And Move On

I am one of those guys who thinks he knows stuff he really doesn’t so yes I did make mistakes but not so many that I gave up. The mistakes I made were fixable and I do eventually learn. The mistakes I made were not enough to dampen my spirits. Vegetable gardening, like most things in life, needs to be learning but even I was able to have a great first garden.

We Even Gave Growing Herbs Indoors A Try

Our first gardening season came and went way too fast and it was going to be nearly half a year before we could do it all again. The perfect time to grow a herb garden indoors.

We were quite excited when our herbs started to grow. I was kind of thinking it might be harder to grow herbs in the house but it was pretty straight forward. We were able to grow them right on the windowsill in the kitchen. All we did was put soil in a pot, added herb seeds and watered them.

Our kitchen doesn’t get a lot of good sunlight during the winter so we did have to move our herb garden to the living room to get that extra sunlight. Other than that it was definitely a breeze growing kitchen herbs, and they taste so good on just about everything.

Vegetables Which Have Been Grown Organically Are Healthier And Taste So Good

Back when I was a kid every one sprayed poison on the crops, my dad wasn’t any different. It’s really amazing we lived through those times. I suffered from migraines for most of my life because I wasn’t aware I was so sensitive to pesticides. Today I use zero chemicals on our vegetables and we wash what we buy very thoroughly before consuming.

To keep the heavy dense clay in our backyard loose and  healthy we produce yard waste compost and use that, along with peatmoss from our local nursery, to make our garden soil healthy and to keep it draining well. The results are vegetables with healthy stalks and leaves because of the healthy well drained root system.

To Finish

Give vegetable gardening a try and experience the great flavours and save yourself some money on your grocery bill. Even if you don’t have a lot of space you can still grow your veggies in containers. Who knows you may just find a new hobby like we did. Learn more from this organic vegetable gardening guide.

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