You Don’t Have To Be a Fine Gardener to Do Fine Gardening—But It Wouldn’t Hurt

Fine gardening doesn’t just happen. It’s made to happen—with years of gathering gardening information and applying it to the garden areas. But before anything else, a plan is needed. Planning the garden consists of deciding what is going into it. Do we want flowers, plants, vines, shrubs or exotics? Or do we want a vegetable garden?

So, let’s say we want to grow vegetables. That’s a start, but it doesn’t solve everything. There are bushels of information and all kinds of vegetable gardening tips from gardeners. The problem is: if one says black, the other says white. Remember, we don’t exactly have a precise science here, so we can’t get two gardeners to agree. Agree on what? Anything! Gardeners are an ornery bunch! But, we did find two items that most gardeners have to agree to, more or less.

Simply Stated-- Grow Most What You Are Going to Eat Most

Most gardening sources will recommend that the finest selection of varieties of vegetable garden planting should be largely determined by what foods you eat throughout the year. Vegetable gardening that consists of growing only those vegetables which are seldom purchased, or because they’re costly or hard to get-- may just be a conversation piece and not very profitable to grow in a home garden.

And yet, most tips for fine gardens agree that-- the home garden does demonstrate its economic value and lets one indulge in otherwise unattainable luxuries of growing and consuming of exotic vegetables. Just not on a steady diet, though.

Plainly, then, one should do their vegetable gardening and grow in abundance those things you consume the most of. And consuming what you’ve grown are meals that will not soon be forgotten.

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