Grow Your Own Vegetable Garden and Eat Healthier

You try to feed your family healthy foods, but often it’s cheaper and more convenient just to reach for the closest sugary snack.  While it requires some work, growing your vegetable garden is a great way to have healthy food available right at your fingertips at little cost.  Plus you get the satisfaction of knowing that you grew them all by yourself and that you’re providing for your family. Kids love to get in on the action too and may even eat garden vegetables when they reject store bought ones.

The most common healthy foods grown in gardens are fruits and vegetables.  When planting these foods, choose vegetables your family prefers, especially if you have limited space.  You want to be able to choose vegetables and fruits that will grow well in your climate, but you should also consider what you have time and space to grow, and what your family will eat.  Growing your own garden is a great way to get inexpensive fruits and veggies that you know are fresh and healthy.

Don’t forget about planting a few herbs as well.  You can make the other food more flavorful without a lot of extra fat and calories by adding herbs to your cooking.  You can grow a couple of medicinal herbs too like peppermint, which is great for stomachaches.

Most foods at the grocery store have been grown using tons of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.  These chemicals may make fruits and veggies look more vibrant and last longer on the shelf as well as increase farmer yields, but they can also be dangerous to your health.  You can buy only organic, but you’ll end up paying a whole lot more.  Growing your own garden is a great way to know your food is safe while spending very little.  Start a compost pile to fertilize naturally and research other methods of safe fertilization and pest control, like companion planting. 

When we consider how good our diet is, we usually just consider the calorie content, but what about taking into account what it takes to get them.  We all know it takes more work to grow your own veggies than to buy them at the store, but we usually don’t take into account all the calories that work is burning.  Gardening is a great workout.  Growing your own fruits, veggies, and herbs can actually help you stay in shape.  That’s a lot healthier than picking something up off a shelf. 

Gardening isn’t just for pretty flowers anymore.  You can grow a great garden to feed your family tasty, nutritious foods.