Why grow your own fruits, and vegetables?

More and more people are returning to the old tradition of growing their own produce, from a small patch of herbs to fulfilling self-sufficiency by producing all their fruits and vegetables. Why is it popular again and why should we start our vegetable garden?

Having a vegetable patch or fruit garden was once commonplace, but it has fallen out of favor as the food industry becomes more commercial and supermarkets have started to need it is in recent years. However, more and more people have started to explore the cultivation of their products again. Here we give some reasons why you might consider starting your vegetable garden.

Freshness

Fruits and vegetables taste better and are healthier if eaten as soon as possible after picking. Most of the fruit you buy in supermarkets is picked long before it is fully ripe, to extend the period, which usually has an impact on flavor. Growing yourself allows you to taste the freshest produce possible the way it should be.

The quality

Marketed crops are often selected for their high yields, uniform appearance, and long shelf life rather than for their quality and taste. Once you develop yours, you will be interested in quality rather than the economy.

 Price

Most fresh produce from supermarkets is extremely expensive. Growing yourself from seed is cheap, and even growing from small plants you buy can provide you with better food at a lower cost. With many plants, you will be using the seed of one season to provide plants for the sequel — an independent cycle that may simply cost you time and energy to continue.

 Origin

More and more people are concerned about the way our food is produced, with chemical pesticides, and genetically modified foods being of particular concern. Next to your vegetable garden, you can recognize exactly where your food comes from and therefore how it was grown.

 Variety

There are literally thousands of different types of fruits and vegetables out there, but supermarkets tend to only think about the most profitable and easiest to sell products. This means that our choice is usually limited to a few types of apples, for example, rather than various traditional types that exist. Growing your own allows you to select the strains you want most of all and experiment with finding new ones that you will rarely see on sale.

There is actually a downside to all of this — it takes time and energy. In these increasingly busy times we wouldn't think we have time to waste, but starting small with a few herbaceous plants on your windowsill, or even the odd tomato, will give you a taste of growing. Your own and might be enough to even hang on to it for life!