Summertime is a great opportunity to get out in the garden, relax and soak up the sun. Over the past 5 years people have been made more aware of what exactly is going into our food, and the cost we are paying for living convenient and unhealthy lifestyles. With heart disease on the up along with obesity, some people have took matters into their own hands and started to grow their own produce in their own back gardens. This way you know exactly what is going into your food, as you are the one who has planted it. Potting up plants in the early stages of the year indoors and progressively moving them outdoors as the climate becomes warmer. The ease of being able to go out into the garden to pick an apple to go into a fruit salad is just on of the products that could be enjoyed through growing your own produce.
Many people have chosen to have raised beds put into their gardens in order to grow vegetables, while others stick to growing vegetables by digging the ground. Plants such as tomato, pepper and chilli plants all require hot conditions, so a greenhouse is an ideal place to grow these . Plus once you have planted your crop then you can enjoy the fruits of your labour, by enjoying brilliant salads all summer long, without going to the shops to by a full lettuce. Once the lettuce has grown in the garden, then leaves can be pulled from the plant, to give a good base for a salad. No more than 1/3 can be taken from the lettuce, the leaves soon grow back.
The need for allotments has also risen during the last 5 years, many of the allotments in England stood empty and unkempt, but the sheer number of people wanting to revert back to being healthy and grow their own is overwhelming. Allotments around England are now being filled and most have all sorts of vegetables and fruits growing. There is nothing more satisfying than the taste of fresh fruit and vegetables, great cooking recipe (Kochrezept) can also be made from fresh fruit and vegetables. At the end of the season if you find that you have too many vegetables and you can’t get through them fast enough, then a good way of putting them to good use is to make a good soup. This soup can then be frozen and used a later date, there are other uses for stuff like onions and tomato’s such as making a good chutney.