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It's Better To Grow Your Own Food
It is way healthier to grow your own food. It's healthier, tastes better, and is less expensive in the long run.
 taffy4jc  20 Feb 2008 05:30
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Yeah, sure is.
 
 AssetParis  02 Mar 2009 00:19
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It is healthier because you grew it, that makes it more pure. Also, it feels better knowing where the food has been
 
 mango8  14 Nov 2008 21:23
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I have to disagree slightly in what Cephus has just stated.
At the moment, my family are growing cucumbers and tomatoes in the house.
...On the window sill.
We're not leaving loads of space for them and they're stuck in plant pots. It cost about £1.79 for a cucumber pot plant. If you have real issues about money then stop eating junk food and swap it for something worth eating. It's so rewarding when you watch a cucumber grow and then eat it!
Not have the time?
It takes 2 minutes to water a plant in the evening or in the morning. That's all.
You're becoming incredibly lazy if you think this is far from your reaches to even bother.

Healthier, organic (obviously in the house you wouldn't have many bugs flying around the place) and fairly cheap.
Just think: One cucumber plant can grow at least 5 cucumbers. Saving money here!
 
 helenbobby  27 May 2008 19:13
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 You are able to grow cucumbers on your sill without having to plant them outside?!
by  innomen
 27 May 2008 19:28
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Ok I agree with Cephus, some people don't have the time and space to do it. But I think it would be a lot healthier, and cheaper for you, so you don't have to buy fruit and veges at the store, and you make money off of it if you sell it, and you can make delicious jams with the fruit you grow.
But it would have to come to responsibility, and you would have to to take care of your garden etc.
 
 Potterpal7  09 Apr 2008 14:01
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 Even if you do have the space, your time is valuable and you may very well be operating at a net loss by growing your own food. Therefore, it's not cheaper, nor necessarily healthier (depends on your local soil conditions and whatever pest control you'd need to use, etc).

Besides, the way actual farmers make money is through volume. They grow a lot of food and use automation to keep their costs down. The individual on the small plot cannot do either of those.
by  Cephus
 09 Apr 2008 20:25
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Definitely. No added this or that, no frankenfood, and the seeds can be saved each year. Even growing one or two veggies or herbs can be a help.
 
 Chell  27 Feb 2008 18:03
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True, but it is a different matter to find time to properly care for a garden.
 
 vexed  21 Feb 2008 18:43
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Hey it Cheaper!
 
 Anthony93  20 Feb 2008 18:48
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I'm sure if it is necessarily 'better', but it certainly sounds like a good idea.

The only problem is with people's lives getting increasingly busy and stressful, there very often is simply not enough time to grow your own good; much easier to nip off to the market or the supermarket.

But yes, I can understand that it could well be healthier, quite possibly working out to be less expensive in the long run, and taste better; some of the home-grown food I've tasted has been delicious.
 
 jsh4  20 Feb 2008 15:44
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That only works if you have the space and the time to do it, often people have nowhere to grow anything and live in a place where soil conditions are poor. Further, while I'm sure this is what you meant, you can only grow vegetables and people's "food" includes a lot more than that. Should people have their own herd of cattle and make their own hamburgers? Certainly not.
 
 Cephus  20 Feb 2008 18:29
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 I totally see what your mean and agree with you.
by  Potterpal7
 09 Apr 2008 14:01
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