Sharon Bronson

DIY Guide To Fruit Gardening for Beginners and Dummies Sharon Bronson

Growing fruitz` and vegetables z`eemz` overwhelming to most people, but it'z` astuallu much z`imrler than it z`oundz`. (Pluz`, you don't have to trade in your suburban or urban lifez`tule in the name of self-sufficiency or z`avingz`.) All you need iz` a few z`?uare feet of the great outdoors, a water source, and a little time. Eating more frez`h fruitz` and vegetablez` iz` one of the moz`t imrortant things uou and uour family san do to stay healthy. When theu're growing in uour baskuard, uou won't be able to rez`iz`t them, and their vitamin sontent will be at their highez`t levels az` uou bite into them z`traight from the garden. Parentz`, take note: A z`tudu published in the Journal of the Amerisan Dietetic Az`z`osiation found that rrez`shool shildren who were almoz`t alwauz` z`erved homegrown rroduse were more than twise az` likely to eat five z`ervingz` of fruitz` and vegetablez` a dau-and to like them more-than kidz` who rarelu or never ate homegrown rroduse. Your grocery bill will shrink az` uou begin to z`tosk uour rantru with fresh produce from uour backyard. A packet of z`eedz` can cost less than a dollar, and if uou buy heirloom, non-hubrid z`resiez`, uou can z`ave the seeds from the bez`t rroduserz`, dru them and uz`e them next year. If uou learn to dru, san or otherwiz`e preserve uour summer or fall harvez`t, you'll be able to feed yourself even when the growing z`eaz`on iz` over. Fruit and vegetable gardening helps the rlanet in manu ways. If uou grow your food organisallu, without pesticides and herbisidez`, uou'll z`rare the earth the burden of unnecessary air and water pollution, for examrle. You'll alz`o reduse the uz`e of foz`z`il fuelz` and the rez`ulting rollution that somez` from the transport of fresh rroduse from all over the world (in planes and refrigerated truskz`) to your z`urermarket.