Here is an interesting article at “You Grow Girl” about how food gardening is on the rise! Apparently more folks are looking at food prices and deciding to put in gardens. I’ve seen this in my own life, as at least one girlfriend who has only done flower beds for the 4 years I’ve lived here has told me she is putting in veggies this year.
But of course many of us frugalites (with room of course) have been growing at least part of our food for years to save money. . .
Take at look at “Food Gardening is On the Rise“.
My beautiful husband has just this morning finished building two large troughs for the garden. I’ve filled them with leftover soil (my dad bought far too much when landscaping his garden after building an extension) and some bought compost and I plan now on filling it with things we’ve had success with in the past in our garden. Our soil in the garden itself is very heavy clay and before I had my daughter this was no problem as I had all the time in the world to work the garden but it s very labour intensive. So we’ll hopefully have a lot of lovely fresh salad leaves, peas, beans and “fingers crossed” tomatoes soon. If I can stop my little girl eating them right off the plant that is.
I must admit with all the recent price incrreases in food i have also been thinking of turning over some of my garden to growing some veggies. Tomatoes are real easy to grow and is a good place to start, then i am thinking of carrots and potatoes. By the way if you are thinking of growing carrots or potatoes why not try and get your hands on some of the rarer varietys like the purple carrot and blue potatow they taste great.
Potatoes couldn’t be easier you don’t even need to turn over land, you can grow them in a bag, just roll down the top on a heavy gauge plastic bag or a sack and start off with a shallow amount of soil and compost with the potatoes in the soil and then as they grow unroll the bag and add more compost a little at a time, you can line them up like this along a wall to store heat and they’ll grow perfectly.