There are so many reasons to grow your own food. Firstly, it is superior to produce found in a supermarket and can give you so many other benefits you just can’t get by going to the supermarket.  Let’s look at some of the reasons I started to grow my own food and perhaps you will be able to identify with some of these. 1. Flavour Firstly I wasn’t satisfied with the flavour of things I bought in the shop. A lot of fruit and vegetable varieties have been bred to be easily transported, to be stored for long periods of…

It is only just gone Spring Equinox and now is the time to start planning summer meals. Specifically, what vegetables will you want to eat over summer? Planning Summer Meals We've had a great lot of rain this winter and we have plenty in storage so I am hoping I have enough water to get us through a summer of intense vegetable growing! This morning I pulled out the seed box and filed through the wads of seed packets. Envelopes of seeds saved from last summer’s pumpkins, mail order peas and beans, zucchini seeds, spanish capsicums and sweet basil all…