Go green by growing your own fresh garden goodies, no matter how small or large your garden area.
All the ingredients for salsa can be grown in two pots on the balcony. Fresh herbs thrive in tiny pots on the window sill as easily as in a side yard. Amaze your guests by letting them pick their own potatoes for the grill at the same time they gather flowers for the salad, no matter where you live. Even tall plants like corn and sunflowers will do well in patio pots.
By catching and storing the cold water that would go down the drain when it’s heating up for a bath or shower you have provided your garden its life source, cut down on your water bill and stretched another resource that much farther. Go greener planting goodies you watched grow from seedlings.
Seed companies are increasing their varieties and stocks of ornamental and edible plants for the small-space and backyard gardeners because the demand is high. People want fresh, ripe, toxin-free food that is affordable and readily available. How can you be any more in control of what you eat than by growing it yourself?
Patio gardens are easy to plant, care for and are right at your fingertips. Gardening in your backyard isn’t as complicated or time consuming as you may think, especially if you join forces with a couple of folks who don’t have any more extra time than you.
Everybody takes an hour or two, one or two days week to weed or mulch or water and all enjoy the harvest. Growing fresh flowers, edible or just ornamental, is a very environmentally friendly and neighborly thing to do. There’s no need to buy crop flowers that needed bug-spray or hauling from the fields because those bright beauties are in front of your door.
Flower beds or potted plants add sparkle and smiles to your neighborhood, even up on the 12th floor. Everybody likes to see fresh blooms whether they have allergies or not so take pictures of your accomplishments for sneezing friends and share the real deal with everyone else.
You can even make potpourri drying your scented bloomers.
Go green and grow your own goodies to eat, admire and share. Considering all the information available on what grows best where and how you live, why not see what color your thumb is? Food costs go down, stress and blood pressures lower while nutrition value goes up. Go green all the way around; plant greens to save greens.
Go green, go local. When you buy anything made within a 100 mile radius of your community you’re casting a wide net of green mindedness. Whether you’re buying from a farmer, carpenter, winery or a coffee shack, using local resources builds the entire community up.
