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Arguments That Will Convince You to Grow Your Vegetables

It’s Simpler Than It Looks

By Lia BartonPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
Arguments That Will Convince You to Grow Your Vegetables
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Growing organic vegetables does not require much space and knowledge. Cleansing the air also increases the aesthetic appearance of any interior space.

Almost any type of vegetable can be grown indoors. Lettuce is very simple and quick to grow, and it only needs a little space. Buckwheat, sunflower grow well in trays. You can grow them on the ground or damp kitchen towels.

You can also grow cabbage, various grains, dried vegetables, and seeds easily on a window sill, in trays, or jars. You can try lentils, broccoli, alfalfa, peas, beans, and wheat sprouts. You can even grow herbs on a window sill. Parsley, hot peppers can be grown in a pot.

Even vegetables and fruits bought from the market can contain chemicals that are harmful to the body, which is why we encourage you to grow your vegetables.

If you care about your family's health and have land where you can grow your vegetables, it's a shame not to use them to grow your vegetables. A study by a non-governmental organization has revealed some worrying data.

Up to 7 types of pesticides can be found in a hypermarket or market fruit or vegetable. But this is not the only argument in favor of growing vegetables, we will offer you others below:

Modern utensils make gardening a child's play and a quick activity

Most of the time we avoid using the land in the yard for vegetables, due to lack of time and energy. Of course, a lawn yard is easier to care for than a vegetable garden, but the benefits are also less.

We must recognize, however, that modern utensils also help to tip the scales in favor of growing vegetables. Tools like these cultivators make gardening activities much easier.

As you can see, they save you a lot of work that you would otherwise have done manually, and that would have taken much longer. In addition, for a small plot of land, where you grow only vegetables for your consumption, you don't even need an expensive one.

Gardening has therapeutic effects on your body and mind

If you have a vegetable garden you will spend more time outdoors, you will get more exercise and you will have a lot of benefits that come from it. When you work in the garden, the stress dissipates, you exercise and you stimulate the production of endorphins in the body and you spend your free time in the most pleasant and useful way possible.

In fact, what could be nicer than forgetting your worries at work at the end of a busy week and spending your time among tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers?

Then, in the summer, when the vegetables are ripe, it is a real pleasure to break a tomato directly from the garden and enjoy its aroma and sweetness. In addition, you will have a diet with quality products, which provide you with pure vitamins and minerals, without other hidden substances.

Health and good taste as in childhood

You've probably noticed that tomatoes in the supermarket don't have nearly the same sweetness that tomatoes had in childhood. Often they are just sour and they lack that real tomato, garden flavor. Well, if you grow your vegetables, you can make your salad with fresh vegetables, freshly picked from the yard.

The dishes made with vegetables and greens from your yard will have a completely different taste, the most important factor being the one related to freshness.

Of course, any food made with freshly picked greens will have a completely different flavor than that made from products harvested a long time ago and which have lost their flavor. Even if without pesticides the fruits and vegetables are not as big or good-looking, their taste is superior, and this is very easy to notice.

What do you think about this? Would you grow your vegetables?

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