My Garden VegetablesGrowing your own vegetables in your garden

If you want to avoid at least some of the toxins and harmful chemicals we are exposed to nowadays, growing organic food is one important way to do that.

When non organic food is produced it is regularly sprayed with toxins. This is to protect it from various plant diseases caused by micro organisms, fungi and bugs.

However, these harmful chemicals are not only harmful to these living entities, but also to many other living things, including humans.

The toxins reach our bodies in various ways. To some extent they remain in the plants that are sprayed, which means you actually eat them when you eat the food (yummy!). Unfortunately, the chemicals also trickle down into the ground water. And we use water to drink, when we cook and maybe we water our own crops with it. If the farmers spray their crops when it is even slightly windy, the chemicals will also spread through the air.

All these chemicals might cause cancer, depression and make you feel enervated. I believe these reasons alone make it important to avoid the chemicals. Moreover they have an environmentally harmful impact, slowly (or perhaps not so slowly) destroying the wildlife on our planet.

Once knowing all these facts, growing organic food seems like quite an idea, right?

Then how do you go about doing this? Do you have to be a professional gardener, knowing all the nitty-gritties? Absolutely not. You need to have an interest, you need to enjoy working in the garden, and you need to be willing to learn some basic steps.

Engage your children! Most children like gardening, at least some part of it. My own daughter loves sowing and watering the seeds, as well as harvesting the veggies or the flowers. The weeding and the watering during the growing period she gladly leaves to me, although she takes interest in how the growing proceeds.

To be able to serve your near and dear ones healthy, fresh food from your own backyard makes all your efforts worth while, don’t you think?