How to make your own vegetable patch
How to grow your own crops, step by step
LIFESTYLE Gardening
The birds are singing, the flowers are bursting open in the sun, and what are you doing? Reading a magazine? Watching a TV show? Why do this, when you could be helping mother nature along by making your own gardening plot?
Growing your own vegetables brings with it a wealth of benefits. Not only will you eat your healthy, pesticide-free produce, but you will also spend more time outside gardening, a proven meditative exercise. It could be a project for children or an opportunity for you to harness a new skill. Whatever the motivation, there are few reasons not to start growing your own fruit and vegetables.
For the absolute gardening beginner, here is a step-by-step guide to making your own vegetable patch. Click through to get that green thumb.