Picking fresh vegetables and eating them on the same day is a reward for your efforts, as you can taste all the natural flavours you may miss when buying vegetables from a food store.
Many of the fruit and vegetables you see at the store may have been picked weeks ago, and sent by refrigerated transport to your store. Quite often, some of these fruit and vegetables are unripe when they are picked and are artificially ripened before they arrive to you.
When you pick you own vegetables from your garden, you pick the most ripened produce and eat on the same day, allowing you to eat all the natural flavours in your family meals and salads.
With vegetable plants growing in your own garden, you can ensure you are not using chemicals to grow your plants by maintaining an organic garden.
You can keep out chemical herbicides and pesticides and use alternatives to keep pests out of your garden. Depending on the type of pest attacking your growing plants, you can use more natural means to keep pests out.
For example, if there are insects attacking your plants, you may look at purchasing ladybirds to eat the insects. If you have moles digging up your garden, you can use gadgets that make a noise or cause vibrations helping to deter gophers and moles. You can search for these gadgets online, or contact a nursery nearby. These gadgets are quite humane and do not kill the animals.
Rather than using chemical fertilizers, you may look at purchasing compost bins to create your own compost, from green and garden waste and food scraps. If you do not have the time to wait for the compost bins to generate compost, you can buy organic compost from nurseries to use in your organic garden.
Another option is to interact with other gardeners by locating and joining local garden clubs and online garden chat groups, to get more tips on vegetable garden planning.
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