Growing your own.

Growing your own vegetables is a fantastic thing; you will be having what I call the four Fs. That is fulfilment, food, fit and frustration, and that will make you want to do better next year. The thing you do not want to do is take on any thing to big to soon.
The fulfilment of just growing some thing is a good feeling. You nurture them from tiny seeds in to full grown plants. The grate thing about almost all vegetables is that they are annuals. So in just a few months you have a thriving plant. So you get to see the results very quickly and do not have to wait for things to get established.

The food is an obvious thing that you will get from growing vegetables. But the thing is you always get a lot more than you can eat. So you give them to friends and family as well as learn new skills like pickling and jam making.

Fit comes from all the exorcise that you get. Out in the fresh air digging and hoeing. You do not have to go crazy and dig the plot in one day but you can take your time. Plan your work so that you can enjoy your time in the garden.

Then you get the frustration of when things do not work. You sit and you plan, plant and it doe not happen. Birds eat the seeds so you reseed and put up nets. You get seedlings but the slugs eat the seedlings because the birds are not eating the slugs because of the nets. So you plan the seed in a try in a green house and then plant out the seedling when they are good and strong. You watch them grow and you think you have won. But a strong wind come and blows them all over as the roots never got full established.

Now this kind of activity might sound a little off-putting but it is not. It is juts the way of gardening and growing. You scratch your head and think next year you will do it another way and you do till you get it to work as beat as you can.
But when you taste your fresh peas or tomatoes straight from the vine then you will know that it was all worthwhile.