Victory Gardens

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Victory Gardens

Although utilized in World War I, Victory Gardens became one of the cornerstones of the war effort during World War II. In the United States, Canada and Great Britain civilians were asked and openly encouraged to grow their own vegetables in order to reduce the strain on market prices and inventories. ?Grow more in ?44? became the battle cry for citizens everywhere to do their part for the war effort. Over 20 million Americans alone grew victory gardens in 1944 resulting in about a 40% decrease in market demand which greatly increased the food supply to our soldiers in Europe and the Pacific.

Victory gardens were generally planted with vegetables such as potatoes, tomatoes, beans, corn, carrots, squash, spinach, lettuce, and other staple produce normally bought down at the local market. Of course after the end of World War II, Victory Gardens became less and less around the country as produce supplies increased on grocers shelves. The idea of helping your country during a time of crisis somehow brings back the carefree days of your youth and a much simpler time.

You can still return to that bygone era when you create your own Victory Garden. But instead of helping our soldiers, consider that you are helping your family and yourself. Creating a Victory Garden will not only reduce your grocery bills each week but will also relieve stress and tension while reminding you of a time when life wasn?t so hurried. Plus, you will get the added bonus of actually growing delicious vegetables for your family. Make it a family project and have everyone pitch in with their own choices of produce to grow. Divide the garden into sections for each family member and watch how everyone helps out and comes together for a come cause. This is what happened over 65 years ago but on a much larger scale.
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Why You Should Weed The Vegetable Garden

Why You Should Weed The Vegetable Garden

When you first plant your new vegetable garden, it almost looks bare. The vegetable plants may be tiny still, or not even sprouted yet, and since you recently turned the soil and made the planting rows, there are also no weeds growing either.

For some people, just the fact that weeds create green in their garden is enough for them to allow the weeds to continue growing. Some weeds are even beautiful in their own rights too, and many gardeners are hard pressed to pull something out that looks pretty.

When you’re growing vegetables in a garden though, particularly if you’re growing the vegetables organically, letting weeds grow can create a large variety of problems.
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Fall Vegetable Gardening Basics

Fall Vegetable Gardening Basics

If you’re dreaming of having fresh vegetables throughout the winter but don’t have a lot left from the summer planting, don’t despair. There are actually many vegetables which can be planted in the early fall, and still have time to ripen before the worst of the winter weather season kicks in.

Plants which grow roots and tubers can survive underground even after frost kills the tops of the plants. If you add plenty of mulch to these types of vegetable plantings, you’ll have the best success.

It’s not always easy to find vegetables seeds or starter plants in the fall though, so you may need to buy your seeds earlier in the year and put them away for fall planting, or buy them online if your local stores are no longer selling them later in the season. You’ll also need to check the seed packages or plant growing instructions to see what the harvest times are, and plant accordingly.
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Vegetable Gardening

Vegetable Gardening

Planting a home vegetable garden is a wonderful way to provide your family with fresh healthy produce throughout the year. Even though the vegetables in your garden will be ripe for just a short period of time during the year, you can take the extras and put them into your freezer, or can them up in jars to put into the pantry, and both will be useable by your family throughout most of the entire year.

Planting your own vegetable garden also allows you to know more about how healthy or dangerous the foods you’re eating are. Store bought produce for instance, is often grown on farms which use chemical fertilizers and poisonous pest control methods. Plants absorb whatever is put onto them or into their soil as they’re growing, so if you’re eating produce which has had chemicals and toxins used on it, those chemicals are also in the plant itself, and are being fed to your body.

When you grow your own vegetables in a home garden though, you can choose to use organic growing methods which are much safer for both the environment, you, and your family.
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Planning a Vegetable Garden? What you Need to Know

Planning a Vegetable Garden? What you Need to Know

If you?ve always wanted to grow your own vegetables but have felt the task was too much for you, take heart?planning and growing vegetables is a lot easier than you may think. With a little judicious strategic planning, you can plant a vegetable garden that will provide ample supplies for you, your family and maybe even your entire neighborhood as well!

For best results, however, there are some pointers you need to keep firmly in mind, including these:

Plant fast growing vegetables like green onions next to slower growing veggies like cauliflower to get maximum use from minimum garden space.
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Creating a Salad Garden

Creating a Salad Garden

Creating a salad garden is a wonderful adventure for both kids and adults, no matter how much gardening experience they might have. In fact, if you get the kids involved in creating a salad garden, they’re much more likely to eat the fresh vegetables that they’ve helped to grow.

There are no hard and fast rules for salad gardens either, because everyone likes different types of vegetables in their salad. There can be so much more to a salad than lettuce and tomatoes.

Now if you’re the type of person who prefers primarily lettuce and greens in your salad, then you might want to create a simple lettuce garden instead. This can be created in a container to sit outside on the patio, or to hang from the window in your kitchen. Or you can plant it outdoors in the ground if you’d prefer instead.
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Growing a salad garden

Growing a salad garden

Growing a salad garden is one of the best ways to introduce yourself or your children to the joys of vegetable gardening. It’s quite easy to do, and it’s tasty too!

One of the most popular ways to grow a salad garden is in containers. The small containers tend to fit easily into a kitchen or dining room window, and this is handy particularly if you don’t have much (or any) yard space to plant the vegetables in.

Salad vegetables tend to grow quickly too, and this is part of what makes them so fun. You or your children can check the pots daily or weekly, and you’ll see noticible growth and changes each time.
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Vegetable Garden Tips

Vegetable Garden Tips

Planting a vegetable garden can be a very rewarding experience. Not only do you get to play in the garden for months while nursing your tender plants along, but then you get to harvest and eat what you’ve worked so hard to grow. And if you grew extras, you’ll even be able to do a bit of freezing or canning so you can enjoy the fruits of your labor throughout the long cold winter months too.

Starting a vegetable garden is not difficult, but many inexperienced gardeners sometimes make their first vegetable garden much larger than they should have, and they become overwhelmed by it as the plants begin to grow and thrive. So it’s important to plan your vegetable garden before you begin planting, to make sure it is something you’re able to handle throughout the growing seasons.

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