Organic Vegetable Gardening

ORGANIC VEGETABLE GARDENING – THE SECRET’S OUT!

Doesn’t it really annoy you when you go to the supermarket or grocery store, pick out the best looking fruit and vegetable, pay top dollar for them and when you get them home they are absolutely flavourless? You may as well be eating the bag that they came in.

Well, the fact of the matter is that they are probably very low in nutritional value as well. There’s a fair chance that they’ve been picked long before they were ready, stored in gas filled caverns, sometimes for months and then sold to you as “fresh”.

All us ‘oldies’ are always saying “Things don’t taste like they used to”. I’m very sorry, unbelievers, but that is true.

I grew up in a small fishing and farming village in Cornwall, in the west of Great Britain and, as a child, all the fruit and vegetables were home grown.

In our garden we had potatoes, broad beans, string beans, tomatoes, apples, pears, plums, blackcurrants, strawberries, cabbages, cauliflowers, all the salad needs like radishes, cucumbers and capsicums and all happily fertilized by the ever-present chickens, which went very well with the minted new potatoes, peas, and a lovely homemade gravy, thank you very much, a second helping please Mum.

Being from a European background, the herbs were flourishing. Basil, rosemary thyme, oregano, mint, sage, parsley,(2 types), chives, you name it, we grew it.

Even the vegetables bought from the greengrocer were locally grown by the farmers or by villagers bringing in their excess crops to be sold fresh or to be bartered, which was still alive and well before the government got a strangle-hold on every facet of life.

Anyway, enough of that, what I’m getting to is simply this. If you want great tasting fruit and vegies at the right price, you have to grow your own. And grow them properly. None of these toxic chemicals that produce tomatoes the size of basketballs and with the same flavour. Growing Organic Vegetables is the ONLY way to go.

It’s fun, it’s healthy and it will save you heaps of money. The kids love it too.

One year I got so many tomatoes from one 90 cent packet of seeds, I was giving them away, throwing them at children on skateboards and passing old ladies. Anything to get rid of them. I was picking tomatoes every morning! And the flavour!!! Well, you’d eat them straight off the plant, like an apple. Magnificent, just like a tomato used to be.

To grow the best organic Vegetables, you will need to know all about the following topics;
• Soil types
• Organic fertilizers
• Mushroom compost – this is GREAT stuff
• Crop rotation
• Organic pest control
• Maintenance of your vegetable garden
• How to pick the right tools for the job

You’ll have to learn about planting times and methods, seeds and seedlings, different crops to plant – this seems difficult, but it’s not. If I can do it anyone can.

Actually because it’s so interesting it’s great fun for all the family. The little ones will be doing something REAL instead of sitting in front of a computer screen and pushing buttons to kill things. They’ll actually be giving life.

OK, so they’ll be filthy dirty – so what? At least they’ll have a good excuse for a change.

Kids LOVE gardening! They love mixing up soil, planting seeds and plants, watering and watching the plants grow!

When I was about three or four years old my late, lovely Gran showed me how to plant radishes. I can still see that day, over fifty years later, in my mind. And I still LOVE and grow radishes!

One tomato plant will make it all worthwhile and will give you the best salads in the neighbourhood which, unfortunately, will attract visitors, dirty kids or not..

Well, this is Grumpy the Gnarden Gnome signing off, for now. I’ll be back soon with some more ideas to get you sweating and keeping your hands dirty.

A green fingered and very knowledgeable lady called Pauline Hodgkinson has written a magnificent e-Book called “Organic Secrets”. This will tell you all that you want and need to know about growing the cheapest, best tasting vegetables on the planet.

Here’s the e-Book, look at it, buy it, live healthy. If you make a decent salad, I might even drop around for the barbeque.


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