CaliKim - Organic Gardening for Everyone: Homegrown Vegetables Made Easy--No Experience Required!

HOMEGROWN VEGETABLES MADE EASY (NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED)

CaliKim

Turning Your Dream into RealityNo Experience Required

IMAGINE STEPPING OUTSIDE on a sunny afternoon with a basket in your hands, a cool breeze blowing, birds chirping, and butterflies flitting around. Everything is colorful, blossoming, and lush. You stroll through your beautiful garden filled with crimson-red tomatoes, multicolored peppers, leafy lettuce, bright kelly green cucumbers, and squash the size of baseball bats. You take a deep breaththe heady fragrance of mint and lavender fills your senses. You pause for a moment to take it all in, then eagerly begin.

What are you doing? Picking dinnerright from your own backyard. You fill your basket to the brim with succulent, colorful vegetables and flavorful herbs. You bring your basket, overflowing with freshness and flavor, to your kitchen and you prepare a delectable, fresh-from-the-garden meal for your family. You feel proud knowing you are providing your loved ones with healthy, organic food that you grew yourself. You know exactly where it came from and what is in it.

Sound like a dream thats completely out of reach? Have you been reluctant to grow a garden because it seems complicated, expensive to get started, and time consuming? Do you want to grow wholesome, homegrown, organic vegetables, but dont know how?

I used to feel the same way before I started my own backyard garden. I was tired of eating tasteless vegetables from the grocery store. I was concerned about the effects the pesticides and other chemicals sprayed on store-bought produce might have on my familys health. I wanted a backyard garden grocery store of my own with organic, flavorful vegetables. However, I wasnt sure how to get started, and I didnt think I could fit gardening into my busy life as a wife and mom of two young kids.

If you can relate, then its time for you to take matters into your own hands and start growing your own organic vegetables. Even if you have never grown anything before, have no idea where to start, and have no space for a garden, you can grow your own organic vegetables that are fresh and full of flavorjust like I did.

Organic Gardening for Everyone is for people just like YOU. Its a hands-on guide to growing your own organic vegetablesfrom seed to harvestin a simple and inexpensive way that fits into your lifestyle. I share with you how to get your garden started, care for it, and harvest it, step by step, with lots of color photographs, making it easy for you to know exactly what to do.

And you know what the best part is? Youre not alone. Were doing this together. Ill be with you every step of the way. Take this book out in the garden with you. Learn how to grow organic veggies with your kids, significant other, or a friend. Get everyone involved. You can grow a gardenwith no previous experience, and no matter how little space you have.

Before you know it, youll be growing your own food and sharing it with those you love, and youll have tons of fun doing it.

TURN YOUR DREAM INTO REALITY

I cant wait for your dream of growing your own organic vegetables to become a reality for you. Soon youll be the one stepping outside on a sunny afternoon with a basket in your hand. What are you doing? Harvesting dinnerthe first vegetables you grew in your own backyard.

Youll experience an incredible feeling of accomplishment as you bring that basket, brimming with freshness and flavor, in your kitchen. And youll be proud to prepare a garden-fresh meal of nourishing, delicious food for your family.

Its time to discover the magic of planting a seed and watching it grow into the most amazing vegetables youve ever eaten. Its addicting. And I guarantee youll never go back.

WHY I GROW MY OWN FOOD AND WHY YOU SHOULD (AND CAN) TOO

I GREW UP IN COLORADO, the third of ten kids. With so many mouths to feed, my parents grew a large garden to save money on groceries. The entire family spent many hours working together in the garden, picking endless rows of beans, husking corn, and harvesting tomatoes, lots of zucchini, and many other vegetables.

We ate tasty meals from our own garden almost daily, and all the kids helped my mom preserve the vegetables that we grew. Our freezer was stuffed with beans, corn, and peppers. Our basement shelves were lined with colorful rows of canning jars filled with pickles, salsa, beets, zucchini relish, and homemade ketchup. It was too cold to grow anything outdoors in the winter, so it was a huge treat to eat food we harvested and preserved the summer before.

To be honest, as child, gardening wasnt love at first sight. At times the garden tasks seemed endless.

A FAMILY THAT GARDENS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER

Looking back now, I can see that my parents created a sense of family fun, teamwork, and togetherness in the garden. Although I didnt realize it at the time, being raised with a vegetable garden created an appreciation within me for garden-fresh fruits and vegetables. It also gave me the desire as an adult to grow my own food and create those memories for my own family.

After I married my husband, Jerry, we moved to Southern California and had our two children, Julianne and Drew. For several years, we lived in small condos or apartments with no space to garden (or so I thought). I became increasingly concerned about the effect processed food, pesticides, and chemicals sprayed on grocery store fruits and vegetables can have on our bodies. I worried about the possible adverse long-term effects this may have on our children. And I was tired of tasteless store-bought produce.

I remembered the incredible flavor of the homegrown vegetables I had as a child. I wanted to feed my family delicious, organic veggies, and I wanted to have the satisfaction of growing them myself. I dreamed of a beautiful garden filled with vegetables, herbs, and flowers, where I could get my hands dirty, grow my own healthy food, and build my own happy family memories, just as I did growing up.