Welcome to Organic Dad’s – Organic Gardening Adventure
This website is about Organic Gardening and the Plants and Vegetables I grow for the benefit of my family and my own enjoyment, hopefully I will encourage you to do the same..
I will be sharing with you the Organic Gardening tips that I have found useful in my Organic Garden and information and articles that you may find of benefit in planning your own organic garden adventure.
Growing your own organic vegetables and fruit is rewarding and good exercise too, it gets you of the sofa and out into the fresh air, it is fun for you and a good education for your children as well as providing you all with plenty of fresh healthy produce. Grow your own organic vegetables and garden plants was once commonplace but fell out of favour as the food industry and commercial growing , along with supermarkets began to take over. In recent years however, thankfully more and more people have started to explore growing their own fresh organic produce again.
It does not have to be complicated and you do not even need a garden, you can start with a small pot on your windowsill. I hope through this website to give you lots of useful ideas and inspiration to grow your own organic food and enjoy like me this rewarding hobby.
Organic Gardening here are a few reasons why you might like to consider to start to grow your own organic vegetables, fruit and herbs.
Fresh Organic Fruit and Vegetables – They taste better and are healthier if eaten as soon as possible after picking. Most fruit you buy from supermarkets and the like is picked well before it is properly ripe, to extend shelf life, and this usually has an impact on flavour. Growing your own lets you taste the freshest possible produce as it’s meant to taste.
Grow your own fresh produce for best Quality – Commercially grown crops are often selected for their high yields, uniform appearance and long shelf lives rather than for quality and taste. When you grow your own, you can concentrate on the quality rather than the economics – growing organic chemical free crops that are better for you and your family.
Growing your own is cheaper - Much supermarket fresh produce is hugely overpriced, despite their advertising claims. Growing your own from seed is about as inexpensive as you can get, and even growing from small plants you buy is likely to provide you better food at a lower cost. With many plants, you can use the seed from one growing season to provide plants for the next – a self sustaining cycle that will cost you only time and effort to keep going.
You know when you Grow your own – More and more people have concerns about how our food is produced, with chemical pesticides and GM food a particular worry. With your own vegetable patch, you know exactly where your food is from and how it was grown – you can use your own organic compost and work with nature to protect and make the best of your crops.
The choice is yours when you grow your own food – There are literally thousands of different varieties of fruit and vegetables, but supermarkets tend to concentrate on only the most profitable and easy to sell. This means that our choice is often limited to a few select varieties of apple, for example, rather than the hundreds of traditional kinds that exist. Growing your own lets you pick the varieties you like the most, and experiment to find new ones you’ll rarely see on sale.
Organic Gardening takes time and effort. In these increasingly busy times, we might not think we have the time to spare, but starting small with a few herb plants on your windowsill, or even the odd tomato plant, will give you a taste of growing your own organic vegetables and fruit and might even be enough to hook you into it for life!
For authority websites on organic gardening and growing organic vegetables: In the UK visit: The Soil Association website or in the USA visit: USDA Organic Certification both sites have great information and advise on organic gardening and produce you may wish to visit there websites, it is very worthwhile if you serious about growing your own food or organic produce in general and who controls what you buy and you and your family eat.
Hopefully this website will provide you with some useful information and organic gardening tips on growing your own fresh organic fruit and vegetables and get you started in a healthier and rewarding lifestyle for you and your family.
~ Organic Gardening ~
