Growing Your Own Veggies
26 February 2009, by Isabella
With Spring quickly approaching, Gardening is in our minds and nothing says gardening like growing your own vegetables.
Create Your Own Edible Treats for a Fruitful Spring and Summer
Nothing says home sweet home quite like a meal made from scratch, so start reaping what you sow and incorporate homegrown ingredients into your favorite dishes. Creating an edible garden harvests other great rewards too, including taking a load off of your wallet and saving you a trip to the grocery store. Plus digging in the dirt can be a great stress reliever and just plain fun for the whole family.
Popular herbs, fruits and vegetables like tomatoes, corn, cucumbers and onions are easy to grow in your own garden and are flavorful alternatives to store-bought varieties. Herbs can grow almost anywhere in nearly anything that will hold soil and water. All you need is a good pot with adequate drainage, great potting soil, fertilizer and seeds. This makes herbs an ideal choice for small-space gardens and shallow planters placed in a greenhouse window or hung a few steps from the kitchen door. With all of the pot choices available from traditional terra cotta to modern stoneware beauties, expressing your decorating style can be rooted in every corner of your home. For all your planting information needs, including tips, projects and specific plant information, visit Learn2Grow.com.
Take your green thumb from the garden to the stovetop and fill your belly with tasty recipes from MyRecipes.com. Try the Sliced Tomatoes with Corn & Basil recipe for the perfect spring treat or the refreshing Cucumber & Onion Salad recipe for a great addition to any get-to-together. (Fun tip: Place a whole egg in its shell in the soil beneath your tomatoes to help nourish and feed them.) Sit back and sip on Iced Orange-Mint Tea to indulge in your hard work. The beverage puts an interesting twist on a summer classic by combining the sweetness of citrus with the crisp refreshment of mint.
If you’re a pro with an already extensive edible garden, create a stunning twist by growing oversized flowers and produce to welcome back spring. Larger-than-life sunflowers, pumpkins and cabbages are sure to add a festive element to your plot. Launching on March 4, LowesCreativeIdeas.com/GiantGarden will have plenty of articles, blogs, photographs and interesting tips on how to harvest a massively fruitful garden, because bigger is definitely better.
For more information and tips on edible gardening, visit Lowe’s stores nationwide and in Canada or Lowes.com and LowesCreativeIdeas.com.
Categories: Garden, Going Green, Home Improvement, Kitchen, Saving Money
