Today is my birthday I am 62) and I decided to do a diary on Gardening, Survival and Hope to celebrate…Please join me in my diary today…
Why Plant a garden:
- Save Money: This may be one of the prime reasons to plant a garden. With just a small garden you can expect to save hundreds of dollars a year. The bigger your garden, the more productive and the more that you preserve from your garden, the more you can save.
- Safe Food: When you grow your own food you know exactly what in it and on it. You can make your garden entirely organic relying on safe methods for growing,fertilizing and insect control.
- Enjoyment: There is nothing quite as wonderful as spending time working in your own garden. Adults and children alike can have many wonderful memories about garden life. My daughter who was present when we had our first big garden remember those days as some of the most peaceful and best memories of her childhood.
- Preserve Your own food: Not only can you eat fresh safe food from your garden, but you can have quality food all year long by preserving food by canning, freezing or drying.
- Survival: With the condition in the world at large, the weather changes, the economic situation, a garden just might be means of survival for many people around the world. Why not get started now,so that you will be prepared.
6. As so well stated by Sven downthread I forgot this one most important item,/There is no such thing as an ugly plant. Everything that grows is beautiful./
All in all I think a garden satisfies many needs in people. It gets you in touch with Mother Earth, allows you to share with others it’s bountiful harvest and brings many hours of joy working and walking in gardens. It also gives you some respite from the ongoing political firestorm.
If you don’t have room or the desire for a formal garden, consider container planting. You can grow many fruits and vegs. in containers and they can fit almost anywhere.
Gardens also fill you with a sense of hope, hope for the future, hope for the world, hope for yourself.
Please share with us your garden and your stories and most of join with me in my Birthday Celebration on the blogs. Please share your pictures and stories with us today.
