Until the 1990s if you brought up “farmers markets” to anyone, they’d think you were talking about some quaint colonial era system where farmers brought their produce to market. These days though, farmers markets can be big business.  To anyone who wants to bypass the clunky and overcomplicated system by which the supermarkets source produce from all over the world, buying directly from farmers in the area is often a great way to go.  Over the past 10 years, farmers markets have really grown across the country. There about 5000 outlets now for anyone who wants to buy local in-season produce. The government has really been doing its part to, to make farmers markets possible.

Indoor vegetable gardening? If you’re short on garden space, you can still have your home-grown veggies!

There’s nothing like the taste of garden grown vegetables. However, if you live in a condo, or in the city, with no gardening space to speak of, you may think you’ll just have to buy your produce. Not necessarily. If you’ve got a spare room, which you use as a sewing room or office space, why not add a little plant life? A garage is another  ideal spot for indoor vegetable gardening.

Here we show you how to put that space to work, with your own indoor vegetable gardening plot. It’s easy, inexpensive and profitable. After all, produce is quite the expensive item on our shopping lists these days.

All you need are planter boxes with drainage trays, soil, shop light fixtures, growing lights, granular time-release fertilizer formulated for veggies. To complete your indoor vegetable gardening plot, choose seeds, or starts from the nursery.

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Still, for the most part my vegetable gardening worked out well. I was surprised by how manageable organic gardening was. It really wasn’t any more difficult than growing a conventional garden, and it only cost a bit more. Organic fertilizer was readily available, and I was able to use compost to supplement it. The best thing was having my own organically grown vegetables at the end of the season. Fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, lettuce, and a few other veggies filled my pantry. I felt like I was eating seriously gourmet food, and best of all I had grown it all myself.

Here’s a quick primer on the basics of planning a vegetable garden. If you’ve never grown your own vegetables, give it a try!

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