Make your own organic vegetable garden
Why grow your vegetable garden?
Nature is still around us. We have forgotten that it is a source of simple happiness, that it keeps us away from stress and that it helps children awaken to life. Sharing the discovery of nature as a family also means strengthening links between generations through observations, discussions, research and projects.
Failures or successes conclude our tests. Failures are sometimes so frustrating that projects are abandoned. If we learn from our mistakes, we still have to want to continue the work. This gardening training invites you to success because it only presents methods that have proven themselves.
Round zucchini plant
Beyond the personal satisfaction it brings, the vegetable garden is also a means of maintaining a social network (discussions, exchanges of seeds, fruits and vegetables for example).
Cultivating cannot be improvised because a minimum of knowledge is necessary to obtain good results. However, you don't need to be an agricultural engineer to have healthy, productive plants. In the past methods were transmitted orally. There were even “local cultures” of gardening.
Today we have online help and we can spend hours in front of screens listening to advice and dreaming of beautiful gardens. But the diversity of advice, sometimes contradictory, often discourages the apprentice gardener.
This training will provide you with simple methods that are adaptable to local living conditions (climate and soil type). Of course, it will also be necessary to defend the plants against various pests or diseases. Here, the means of control proposed will be biological. You will also have to learn to protect crops against possible physical factors: excessive heat, wind and especially lack of water.
Succeeding in your vegetable garden is not only being able to contemplate the beautiful plants that grow there, it is above all having the happiness and pride of harvesting your vegetables and fruits. Here again, you need to know when and how to harvest your tomatoes or strawberries. A learning of the senses is necessary. Colors, odors and consistencies are key criteria and adjustable according to culinary needs.
Finally, the garden products arrive in the kitchen. They will not have been sprayed with chemicals. They will only have been handled by you. They will not have been transported or frozen. They will have matured naturally. They will not have been exposed and fiddled with in a market or in a supermarket.
You will have healthy and clean vegetables which will have naturally developed their olfactory and taste qualities. If you think that the vegetable garden is not for you because you go on vacation every summer, know that you will always find neighbors or friends to maintain the garden in your absence in exchange for fresh fruit or vegetables.
