Grow your own produce!

Do you have a garden each year? If not, you may want to consider growing a few items this Spring and Summer.

Fresh fruits and vegetables from a garden typically have a better taste than those purchased from a grocery store. If you choose to grow the more expensive items yourself, you’ll see a difference in your food budget.

Some of the higher priced items are tomatoes, melons, peppers, squash, beans, broccoli and lettuce.

Gardening can be as simple as growing tomatoes or strawberries in large outside containers or as elaborate as an enormous, tilled garden area.

Growing your own food has many health benefits! You can control what was used in the soil and the types of pesticides, if any, that are placed on the plants. Gardening is a stress reliever and good exercise. It is a fun science project to expose children to. They may even decide to eat their vegetables after they’ve grown them. 

The TN Extension office has many articles on growing produce in our state, as well as other topics that may be interesting.

Below is a link to “Backyard Vegetables”.

https://extension.tennessee.edu/publications/Documents/W346-I.pdf