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Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

We grow our own fruit and vegetables for our meals for as much of the year as we can. Without a greenhouse we have to buy shop food in the winter months but in the spring, summer and autumn we often have enough to share with family and friends.

Read about growing your fruit and vegetables here on my growing your own food pages.

Friday 1 June 2012

Why Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables is enjoyable

Why Growing  Your Own is good for you. It might look as if I am about to launch into a page on the benefits of growing your own fruit and vegetables, but I am not. All I want to say is - it is good for you because it can make you happy. I really do feel more optimistic when I walk down the path that divides the fruit bushes from the growing vegetables and start to notice the tiny fruits forming on the blackcurrant and red currant bushes. Then I look and notice that while I have been away the flowering strawberries have started to produce miniature fruits. The tayberry looks like we will get a crop this year and not just a taster of three fruits as it did in its first year. Plus I am oh so popular at the moment with those I know that love the rhubarb I am growing.
Even the gooseberries are starting to develop. I will try to get new photos of the fruit and veg. on here soon.

a healthy potato plant in flower

a healthy potato plant in flower
photo of potatoes in flower

home grown carrots.. grown from seed

home grown carrots.. grown from seed
photo of my first bunch of carrots 2009

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful
Home Grown Fruit can be made into delicious compote