This is the 3rd year I've had a vegetable garden. I enlarged it this year and have been able to have double the size as it was before. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to have your own garden! How amazing it is to watch it grow! In order to prove how wonderful it is here is a list of the benefits:
- Vegetables picked fresh from your garden have far more flavor than the older produce you find at the grocery stores.
- Vegetable gardening for your family can be an economical means to stretch your food budget
- Vegetables picked fresh from your garden are far superior in vitamin and nutritional content. Every day that a vegetable is off the vine, it loses a significant portion of it's nutritional value.
- Growing your own vegetables ensures that no harmful chemicals or unsanitary growing conditions will affect your family's food and health (organic gardening).
- In these uncertain times, it is comforting to know that you can take matters into your own hands in providing for your family
- Growing vegetables and gardening is fantastic exercise!
- There is a definite sense of satisfaction in watching this natural wonder that you've helped to create, grow. Every day, you see changes in the garden: plants grow, flowers bloom, fruit forms on the vine, and vegetables seem to grow right there before your eyes.
- Vegetable gardening is also a wonderful family-oriented science project. Have the kids keep a daily journal of what they've done and the changes they see in the garden.
- Having your family help with the garden instills basic values of self-sufficiency, responsibility and work-ethic. Donating surplus vegetables to neighbors or your local food pantry will help your kids understand the importance of tithing and of community.
- With every meal that you provide your family from your own fruit and vegetable garden, you help reduce the strain on an already overburdened food supply chain.
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