Growing your own vegetables, is it worth it?
Without a doubt, YES. My friends often tease me that growing my own vegetables cost 3 times as much as buying from the store. Well, maybe they are right. Maybe they have not tasted the real vegetables, those that does not taste like soaked cardboard boxes.
The truth is ever since I grew my own vegetable (and fruits of course), I have started to eat more greens. I can’t give myself lame reasons for not cooking some because “I am just too tired to drive to the supermarket“. Because they are so fresh, I spent much less water washing them and use much less seasoning when cooking; A little pitch of sea salt would usually do the trick. Not only do they taste better, they keep longer in the fridge without growing into a ball of fur in the crisper!
The most important reason for me is I have re-kindle that gardening passion that I always had; My childhood memory of following my mum to the backyard and collecting vegetables for dinner. I am spending ever more time in the garden; Looking, inspecting and experimenting with growing technics and organic products. No one garden is the same; Every individual one has it own characteristics, soil composition and challenges. It needs us to nurture and tend to their needs and in return, it will reward us handsomely. In my case, vegetables on my table and the joy to tell someone “Hey! I grew my own greens. Do you?“
