There should be no reason why people should go hungry these days. Absolutely no reason! We all have small portion of land in our yard that we can turn into vegetable garden except, of course,  for people living in the apartments and condos.  The only hard part of  gardening is the preparation of the soil and beds, but it is a breeze once the hard part is out of the way.  All you need to do is add compost to the soil once a year. Veggie gardening doesn’t raise water bill that much if drip irrigation is installed.  It is fairly reasonable rate. They say that for every dollar you invest in the garden, you get $4 dollars back.  Pretty good return of investment I must say.

Have  you noticed how expensive vegetables at the grocery store nowadays? Several months ago, I bought 3 huge tomatoes and it cost me about $5.  Expensive, huh? It has something to do with the supply and demand. If there is more demand than supply, then what happens?  Obviously, the price goes up.  Even if it was against my will to spend that much money on tomatoes, I had no choice.  I needed them in my cooking.  I forgot to mention that the tomatoes I bought were hot house tomatoes. They were fed commercialized fertilizer made from oil. And they didn’t taste as good as the organic ones grown in our garden, not to mention how nutritionally deprived they were being that they were grown in oil.

And with this price of produce nowadays, most college kids would rather opt for for fast food rather than a wholesome meal because they simply can’t afford it. Need I say why people are sicker these days?

Anyway, I thought I would show you how small plot in your backyard can bring in so much produce for at least 5 months – year-round for people with moderate climate.

zucs

Prolific zucs

tomatoes 1

Tasty tomatoes

fruits

Fruits of different varieties

green beans

Delicious green beans

saluyot

Last but not the least, the ever-nutritious saluyot

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