Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

As long as you do not sell it, it is tax free. The only way income tax plays a part of the equation is if you sell your produce, and gross more than $10,000. Food grown for personal consumption has always been tax free.

GardenersCardiff answers:

I grow a vegetable garden as a hobby not because of the small increases in food costs. Same reason I have fruit trees planted.

It’s just me, my wife and 3 cats to feed and I have yet to see anything close to a 24% increase in food costs.

The grain being used to make ethanol isn’t grain thats grown for human consumption, this still is used as feed grain for livestock and there’s more than enough to feed all livestock and still make fuel.

GardenersCardiff answers:

Great question!

Here are my ideas:

1. Freshness and taste. This is the best reason to grow your vegetables and fruits. Have you ever tasted corn on the cob that was picked within an hour of harvesting? You won’t soon forget that experience, trust me.

2. No insecticides if you do organic gardening. Why not grow organically? There are ways to make it even easier than using those UGLY pesticide poisons. Try sheet composting, for example. Buy some hay bales and cover your garden with it at the end of the growing season. At the beginning of the next season the ground under the cover will be fresh and loamy. Keep the mulch on the garden year round and avoid weeding your fingers bloody.

3. Exercise. Gardening is a great way to get your much needed exercise. There are thousands of gardeners who are well into their 80’s and still growing great gardens. Perhaps this gives us a clue why we should too?

4. Price is not the issue. In fact, it is questionable if you can save money growing your own food. You will prbably come out even on a pure price comparison with your local grocer. But so what? The other reasons bury the price argument.

5. It is a lot of fun. We need more fun in our lives.

Go Garden has some great pictures of flowers;
http://www.go-garden.com