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		<title>Home-Grown Vegetables Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Burch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's sometimes recommended that you don't try to grow vegetables that are readily available at your local supermarket. If a certain vegetable is cheap in the groceries, then you should not include it in your garden.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s sometimes recommended that you don&#8217;t try to grow vegetables that are readily available at your local supermarket. If a certain vegetable is cheap in the groceries, then you should not include it in your garden.</p>
<p>You should grow crops that have a definite improvement in quality if home-grown.</p>
<p>Solanum lycopersicum. The nature and characteristics of tomatoes lead people to think that they are vegetables, which they&#8217;re not. The tomatoes available in supermarkets are actually picked raw and ripened artificially. The reason for this is to make sure tomatoes don&#8217;t start to rot before they even reach the market. Since tomato quality can be really poor in stores, this is a very good choice. Tomatoes are the most popular choice for vegetable gardeners, because they probably have the most noticeable difference over store bought.</p>
<p>Leafy greens: Lettuce. The less common varieties of lettuce definitely taste better when home-grown. The less common varieties of lettuce can cost a lot of money.</p>
<p>Pisum sativum. Peas can be very hard to find fresh. Canned peas are often mushy, and although frozen peas are certainly better than canned, they still pale in comparison to fresh peas. Baby peas taste so much better than those canned or frozen peas.</p>
<p>Carrots. Store-bought carrots are frequently bitter and hard. Not even organic carrots are exempted from the bitterness caused by long periods in cool temperature. Fresh carrots are generally very sweet and delicious.</p>
<p>Rich radishes. Radishes are cheap and easy to find in stores, but most store bought radishes are already turning pithy. If you&#8217;ve ever tried a pithy radish, then you would want to have fresh ones. Fresh radishes are delightful!</p>
<p>Greens. Even though they are plenty of them in groceries, their quality leaves much to be desired. Home-grown greens will give you the best ones you&#8217;ve ever tasted.</p>
<p>Asparagus. Fresh asparagus is often ridiculously expensive, and canned asparagus is mushy and horrible! Asparagus is delicious and inexpensive when you grow them yourself.</p>
<p>Crunchy and sweet peppers. Peppers in stores are often shrivelled and pathetic. Plus, peppers that aren&#8217;t standard green peppers can often be very expensive. My local store has sold red peppers for as much as $2.99 each, which is crazy! It would be better to plant some in your garden that buying those at the store&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Cucumbers. The cucumbers available in stores usually don&#8217;t taste good. A single taste of those dry cucumbers should be enough to make you want them in your own garden.</p>
<p>Home-grown corn. Freshly harvested sweet corn tastes so good. The quality of corn declines after harvest. Once it&#8217;s been off the stalk for 6 hours, it starts to deteriorate rapidly. Freshly harvested and cooked corn is the best.</p>
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		<title>Why Container Gardening Is The Best Way To Grow Plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Burch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not many people have container gardens, even if they offer so much good. Although it has become more popular over the past couple of decades, it still isn't as popular as many other methods.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not many people have container gardens, even if they offer so much good. Although it has become more popular over the past couple of decades, it still isn&#8217;t as popular as many other methods.</p>
<p>The greatest advantage of container gardens is convenience. Disabled individuals have easy access to container gardens.</p>
<p>Low tables serve as garden locations for people in wheelchairs. Older folks can care for plants without bending.</p>
<p>Even children find container gardening to be much easier than traditional gardening, because they don&#8217;t have to weed and rake and hoe, and they don&#8217;t have to have an adult till soil for them. People also have the freedom to move their plants when they wish with container gardens.</p>
<p>You are able to bring your outdoor plants inside when the elements are too harsh. If your garden&#8217;s location in unsatisfactory, then you can find a new location and move you plants. Moving your plants can be done anytime.</p>
<p>Plants grown in containers don&#8217;t have the same issues with diseases that traditionally-grown plants have. Although some container-grown plants do get diseases, it is far less likely than it would be if those plants were grown directly in the soil. You&#8217;ll have safer plants with container plants because potting soil is free from organisms that can cause diseases.</p>
<p>Plants in pots are easier to feed. It&#8217;s much easier to ensure the fertilizer you use gets to your plants if they&#8217;re confined to a small area of soil. In traditional gardens, you won&#8217;t know which plant will benefit from the fertilizer. This is not as likely when plants are grown in containers.</p>
<p>Fertilizer is washed out of the soil easily because the soil area is quite small. Therefore, you&#8217;d need to fertilize more times than in traditional gardens.</p>
<p>But then, at least you&#8217;re sure that your fertilizer is not wasted. The growing period of plants is lengthened when you put them in pots.</p>
<p>Insulating your pots can make the soil warmer than the soil in traditional gardens. To start, you plant indoors then transfer them to bigger pots outdoors when time comes.</p>
<p>You can also use careful insulation to continue to grow plants after the first frost, and you can even bring plants indoors once it becomes too cold to keep them outside even when insulated. Being a space saver is another advantage of container gardens.</p>
<p>A large number of people have limited space where they live. Container gardening gives you an opportunity to grow your own plants even if you don&#8217;t have a yard. Many people have small container gardens in a sunny windowsill in their kitchen, or in a sun room or spare bedroom.</p>
<p>Some people even grow plants in a closet by using a grow light! Container gardens are really convenient when you like to plant but don&#8217;t have the space.</p>
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