Gardening is not for just some but for everyone. Gardening in the broadest sense is "Growing Something" and we can all grow something. We can grow plants for food, health, fiber for clothing, flowers for pleasure and plants to improve the environment, etc. Plants can be grown indoors, on your patio, the back yard or the back forty. The best way to control what you eat is to grow your own food. You know what you are eating on your food because you put it there, you cannot say that for the food you buy. 

     With the varieties we have available today it is possible to grow many different types of food in containers. Some of the tomato varieties grow very well in a container. There is a bush type cucumber variety that will do well in a container. Peppers do well, herbs, and many others. You need a large container, soilless mix as a growing medium, compost and your seed or seedlings, keep it watered and enjoy the results.  The same applies to the garden bed except you already have the soil as your growing medium and because there is usually a larger space involved you can use different varieties of plants. In both cases do your best to grow your plants without the use of chemicals or at least an absolute minimum of pesticides.

There is a mass destruction of plants (trees) in the rainforests, in urban areas for construction and in agriculture to facilitate larger equipment. The results can and will be far more devestating than we are presently seeing.  When there is light a plant produces food and this process uses Carbon Dioxide and releases Oxygen as a by-product. The more plants we can grow the better for our environment. There is an interest in growing trees, more green spaces and even grass roofs on some of our buildings in the urban areas. We need plants to remove air pollutants in our cities.        

GROW YOUR BEST GARDEN

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"Food Miles" - Food Transportation and Our Environment
"Food Miles", the distance our food travels between the farm that produced it and our table. Preliminary estimates in some areas suggest that less than 8.5% of our diet is produced on local farms. While fifteen years ago it was almost double.