There are three main reasons for which you may decide to grow your own vegetables at home. Home-grown vegetables are:

They are healthier than store bought options

Cost less

Taste better

Though pharmaceuticals can help with many symptoms that you have, there truly is no replacement for eating right and preventing illness in the first place through a good diet. When you grow your own food, you get to control more what goes into your body.

Many who grow their own vegetable gardens do it in an organic way avoiding all chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Although using fertilizer helps you grow bigger vegetables, sometimes this is not neccesary if you have a healthy growing environment. A healthy growing environment helps eliminate the need to spray and provides minerals for healthy plant growth.

Vegetables grown at home are not only healthier but overall cheaper than buying them at the store. Although not free, if you included the cost of seeds, water and time to tend to your vegetables. The cost to the environment however is certainly less since there is less no transportation costs. There is also less waste because you only grow what you need. Any excess can usually be stored in the plant until needed.

When you first pluck a tomato ripe from the vine and pop it into your mouth, you will be amazed. You will feel sure that there has been a mistake because this delicious, juicy fruit that you have just eaten cannot possibly go by the same name as that bland, watery insipid red thing sold in supermarkets posing as the vegetable of tomato.

You simply cannot compare home grown naturall vegetables to what is sold at the store which often travels for really long distances in a cold storage. Your home grown food many not be as big, but the taste will be twice as good. You also get to control what is put on the food and you know what did and did not go into it.

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