Gardening Articles

Written by: Harwood E

We are now moving into the time of year where it is great fun to be working out in the garden, spending long hot sunny afternoons tidying up the garden, weeding and planting new plants in time for the summer. Gardening is having a bit of a resurgence in popularity over the past few years with more and more of the younger generation having a go at growing plants and designing a garden, partly because of the exposure that gardening has been given by television design programs and because of acceptance as the garden patio area as an outdoor living space. But one of the biggest growths in the gardening sector has been with people growing their own fruit and vegetables. In years gone by everyone with a garden or an allotment would grow their own fruit and vegetables as a way of providing food for the dinner table when times were hard, now it appears as though we are going into a period of slight recession and people seem to have less money in their pockets because of rising costs people are trying to make ends meet by growing their own produce.

Written by: Harwood E

The way that we look at food has changed over the past 10 – 15 years, for many people cheap mass produced fast food is just not acceptable in their diets any longer as they now understand more about the implications of how the food was produced, what it does to our body and the ethics that have gone into the production of the food. For this reason more and more of us are turning to growing our own vegetables and even having a go at rearing our own animals for meat and food. This all ties in very nicely with the boom time that cookery is having at the moment due to the increase in cookery programs on the television. We are more educated about food and how to cook it than ever before and with the help of the inter web we are never far away from some exotic recipe or another. So what can you do to join the growing number of people that are becoming self sufficient and more educated in what we eat and the way we produce our food?

Written by: Gregg Osbourn

If you are someone that has never grown vegetables before then it is important that you stick to vegetables that are easy to grow. Even though they might be vegetables that you have not usually eaten before or never thought about growing you might be surprised by the results.