Gardening Your Way To Good Health

If you want to get on the road to good health, then may I suggest that one of the first things you do is to learn as much as you can about how to get started growing your own groceries whether in your own backyard or somewhere else such as your local or nearby Community Garden and if there is not one nearby then get a few friends together and start up your own.

Good health comes as a result of the body being in balance with itself and with nature and maintaining good health requires you to live as 'natural' a life as possible, which for some of us is difficult to do in this modern materialistic world of frenetic activity of 'money-making' and 'fast-foods'.

The resulting stress and unhealthy diet of highly-processed foods make the kind of balance necessary to obtain and maintain good health harder than ever to achieve, hence the ever-growing waiting lists at your local Medical Centre or Hospital and the increasing consumption of chemical-based medicines and drugs aimed at prolonging unhappy unhealthy lives.

Think about this for a moment ...

When did you last buy a tomato in the supermarket that tasted really good and actually smelt like a real tomato? Can you remember the last time that you bought a beautiful looking peach or nectarine but it turned out to be bland and tasteless?

Having problems remembering folks!

Jokes, aside, there should really be no excuses on your part, to not get started with growing some of your own groceries.

Even an apartment balcony can have a small container garden set up so that you grow and harvest crops such as tomatoes, beetroot, celery, kale, spinach, silverbeet, swiss chard, lettuce, parsley, basil, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, dwarf-peas, dwarf-beans, capsicum, chillies, etc.

If you already have existing health issues such as lower back-pain, and have plenty of room to plant out a backyard vegetable garden, then consider installing waist-high raised garden beds or veggie tanks that will help to alleviate back-pain but still allow you to garden safely.

The hardest decisions that you will have to make is what variety of vegetables to plant and at what time of the year and that is where you need to spend some time doing your homework beforehand.

You will find out that gardener's are amongst the friendliest people in your neighbourhood so take a peek over your fence at your neighbours yard and if they are growing food for themselves then just pop over and ask them for any advice that they can share with you on starting your own food production garden. I am certain that they would be honoured to share their 'local knowledge' with you and your family.

One thing to remember when it comes to growing your own food and that is that 'vegetables are a bit like people' as they need food in the form of compost and fertiliser, water and lots of nurturing attention if they are to thrive and grow into healthy delicious produce ready for eating.

Vegetable plants also get tired of being grown in the same location year after year and even prefer the company of some plants (companion planting) over others.

To get the very best results from your food production garden try rotating the growing position of your vegetables by planting them in a different spot each season and keeping together those plants that grow well with each other.

It also pays to grow a few marigolds and calendulas amongst your vegetables to help discourage and repel pests.

If you are still not sure as to what you should plant in your food garden then Google it or better still, check out gardening books down at your local library.

If you are lucky enough to have a food-growing neighbour then strike up a conversation with them or pop along to your nearest community garden and watch how they do things.

If you are one of those people who has never planted a seed or a seedling in their life then get out there and try it, you will be glad that you did so.

It is a wonderful accomplishment when one has grown something from scratch and can harvest and enjoy the rewards of the love and effort that was put into growing it.

I do not think that anything that has been mass-produced could ever possibly 'bottle-up' that hands-on energy of anticipation and excitement that can only come from something being homegrown and/or handmade.

You will be surprised at the pleasure you will get from growing your own groceries gardening, to say nothing about how much healthier you will feel when you are on the road to improving the status of your health.

Have fun getting your hands dirty and cultivate your way to good health!

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