Vegetable gardening is not only a hobby any longer. It’s become a brilliant as well as great technique to combat changes in our economy and also the ever increasing food costs.
About a year ago we went through another economic recession making it harder to make ends meet each month.
During the last recession we became beginner vegetable gardeners. Turns out our timing couldn’t have been better. Vegetable gardening provided a great opportunity to save a bit of money on our food bill.
We felt like we actually had a bit of control in a recession we couldn’t control.
Involve Your Friends And Neighbours
It’s wonderful having vegetable gardening friends who bring fresh vegetables right to our front door. Barb, one of my guitar playing friends would even bring over extra preserves she made herself. Mmmm, so good.
Now we share vegetables we can consume fast enough, although this year we are planning to have Barb show us how to preserve vegetables for the winter.
Grow Things That Are Easy To Grow
We started our first vegetable garden in containers because the owners of places we rented wouldn’t give us the go ahead to dig a garden.
Our container vegetable garden wasn’t very big and mostly tomatoes however we had no idea just how many tomatoes we would get from just a few potted plants. We didn’t want rotting tomatoes everywhere and hadn’t learned how to can tomatoes yet so we started giving them away to friends and neighbours.
Now we save money every year and each year we increase the size of our vegetable garden. But we didn’t even stop there. We found that some of vegetable gardening friends were willing to try something new that would help us all.
We started growing things we could share between us. One would grow tomatoes, lots of tomatoes while another would grow cucumbers and yet another would grow strawberries.
That first spring we started sharing was amazing and each of us noticed a considerable saving on our food bill.
This year my wife and I are growing tomatoes in abundance, enough to share but also enough to keep for preserves next winter. Tomatoes are a big part of our diet as we put tomatoes in everything, pretty much.
We have also put aside an area to grow squash. We tried growing them in the vegetable garden but they took right over so we put them in a new location.
The Free Traffic System – Vegetable gardening is just one way I make extra money working from home. I also write articles about my veggie gardens as well as many other niches and then publish them on various article directories.
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