Diane Hendricks - How to Grow Vegetables: Discover Simple Ways to Grow a Vegetable Garden That Is Luscious and Thriving Using Innovative Gardening Raised Bed Techniques

How to Grow Vegetables: Easy To Follow, Step By Step Guide to Grow a Beautiful Vegetable Garden in Raised Beds

Discover Simple Ways to Grow a Vegetable Garden That Is Luscious and Thriving Using Innovative Gardening Raised Bed Techniques

By: Diane Hendricks

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This book is dedicated to aspiring gardeners to become more knowledgeable, efficient, and effective in producing their own backyard garden vegetables.

Growing Vegetables in Your Own Back Yard

Eating vegetables adds to good health and nutrition. By growing even a small variety of vegetables and herbs in your garden, you can increase your vitamin and mineral intake significantly. But growing your own vegetables has even more health benefits.

Youll have the freshest vegetables right in your own backyard, and when you grow your own vegetables, you have control over chemicals like pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers that are used. You can limit your exposure to these potentially harmful chemicals by growing your own vegetables naturally.

You will also have the opportunity to engage in physical activity outdoors while you tend your garden. You can combine lifting, bending, and stretching to work most of the major muscle groups while you garden.

Being outdoors exposes us to fresh air and sunlight, which helps produce the recommended amount of vitamin D. Vitamin D helps with the absorption of calcium, which is essential to forming and maintaining strong bones and teeth, as well as fighting osteoporosis.

Many people find that gardening is a rewarding and relaxing activity that can help reduce stress. So not only will gardening provide a physical workout plus fresh vegetables to eat, but it can improve your mood as well.

Eating organic vegetables fresh from your backyard is one of the most important things you and your family can do to stay healthy. Growing vegetables in your backyard means that you will not be able to resist them, thus having an increase intake of vegetables which is definitely good for your body, and their vitamin content will be at their highest levels as you bite into them straight from the garden.

You will save money by crossing out vegetables on your grocery list. Your garden is readily available if you need vegetables on your dish.

Also a packet of seeds can cost less than a dollar, and if you buy heirloom, non-hybrid species, you can save the seeds from the best producers, dry them, and use them next year.

Fresh food is the best food! Compare the flavor of a homegrown tomato with the taste of a store-bought one. Homegrown tomato will definitely taste better, and one thing more: youll be more likely to eat the healthy and fresh tomato that your body needs.

Save Mother Nature

Backyard gardening helps our earth in many ways. If you grow your food naturally and organically, youll spare the earth the burden of unnecessary air and water pollution. Youll also reduce the use of fossil fuels and the resulting pollution. Build your own backyard garden and help save our home.

Combine lifting, bending, and stretching to work most of the major muscle groups while you garden. Be sure to lift heavy objects properly and to stretch your tight muscles before and after strenuous activity to avoid body ache. Gardening is also a way to relax and center your mind by appreciating nature and getting a better outlook of life.

Growing your own vegetables under your care to become food on your and your familys plates is gratifying. Caring for your plants and waiting as they blossom before your eyes is an accomplishment and a pride that you will keep!

When it's "yours" and it took you a lot of effort and time to grow it by your own, you will be less likely to take it for granted and more likely to eat it, rather than wasting it all.

Many people are concerned about food safety in our global food marketplace. When you organically grow your own food, you don't have to worry about chemicals and contamination that may occur with the vegetables you buy in the supermarket. You can trust that your food is safe and healthy to eat because you grew it yourself.

The benefits of growing your own vegetables are pretty amazing. Not only can you benefit from eating a fresher and healthier diet, losing weight and fighting disease, but youll have a creative new way to exercise as well as an effective stress reliever.

Raised garden beds are great, popular for growing fruits and vegetables, and make vegetable gardening less work. They are a good way of boosting drainage and can be used to introduce a different soil type to your garden. Raised beds are also a useful way to garden if you have restricted mobility, as they reduce the need to bend.

Learn the benefits of raised bed gardening, how to build a raised garden bed, and what you need to do to make a raised vegetable garden properly.

With easier access and less pain potential, you're better able to enjoy the labor involved in planting, tending, and harvesting your raised vegetable garden. Basing on the name, raised-bed vegetable gardening can reduce back strain because you wont have to bend over as far to reach the plants. Build your raised garden beds at least 12 inches tall so that you can sit while harvesting your bounty without having to bend at all.

To extend the gardening season for your raised garden beds, fashion hoops like these and then drape plastic over them. The makeshift cold frame will help you gain a few extra growing weeks in spring and autumn.