Growing your own vegetables isn't for everyone. But it could be a way for more people to save on grocery buying. And gardening, even on a very small scale, is healthy. The exercise and the sunshine and the fresh air is invigorating. The two reasons against growing your own food can be summed in a sentence or two: not interested, or interested but have no garden plot; have a garden plot but prefer an attractive yard to food growing. Even when living in an apartment, a sunny window sill will grow herbs and will save a little money. Have your ever priced a bunch of parsley lately? Into a wide and narrow window sill pot, sage, parsley, chives, basil, and a few more herbs could be grown. This would also be a nice attractive addition to any room, kitchen, dining room, living room, or whatever.
If interested, but will not sacrifice your beautiful landscaped yard to a messy garden, there are even ways around this. Grow your vegetables in attractive pots and move them around to ensure sunshine for them and a fill in for a vacant spot amidst plants and shrubbery. Most vegetables are beautiful in their own right. Ever consider planting several different colored lettuces in a container for their sheer magnificence? Try it. They are lovely with their dark greens, they yellowish lighter greens and their red tints.
What can be lovelier than having a walk way lined with chives. Okay, chives is not a big money saver, but a walkway lined with edible mustard, varied colored kale, or even a row of low growing bush beans while not top grade for beauty, might be worth a try. After they are finished, why not sow some type of green leafy vegetable that will add beauty in two ways, money in your pocket,a and filling in an otherwise barren space. Of course, with this option, you will never use weed killers or any poison to control the bugs. While going out or coming in, each day, bug your beans and squash those who are out to rob you of your hard earned food source.
Fenced in yards are good for growing vine crops such as beans, cucumbers, squash, corn and whatever else need something to lean against or twine their vines on. A few hills of corn arranged near fences will not be too unsightly, and they will bring in food for the table. Actually, there are as many ways of saving on groceries by growing you own as there arguments against why you should not. It all starts with an interest in gardening in the first place, without this, forget it, it will fail anyway.
Innovative ways of growing potatoes abound. Use of stacked old tires filled with soil that takes up no more room than a comparable sized flowerbed, a few potato eyes planted in a partially filled bag of a good nourishing soil, and hung on a post on the patio, will bring in several servings of potatoes.
And while still in the planning stages where growing your own food is concerned, don't forget about those goodies that grow and multiply each year when properly managed. These include , asparagus in a far away corner, strawberries, well manicured berry bushes, and a few fruit trees for shade. And more and more and more. All you need to do is to think of them and to figure out ways of growing them. Innovation is the key to successful growing of gardens.