| Home grown and organic, or at least natural, fruit and | | | | seedling plant in through the bottom, place a few |
| veggies are the best. You can be allergic to chemicals | | | | pieces of the fiber over the roots, then potting soil. |
| used in the growing of produce, even if you are not | | | | Hang it up, keep it misted watered, and feed |
| allergic to the product itself. If you can't grow any fruit | | | | occasionally. Supposedly, the tomatoes won't mind |
| or vegetables then visiting a local farmer's market | | | | being upside down and will grow like weeds. You can |
| works great, or even a health and natural food store in | | | | also try this with cucumbers and a few other plants. |
| your area. If produce is grown within a hundred miles | | | | Plants that grow off of a single stem then branch out, |
| of your home, then so much the better. Long transport | | | | or vegetables or fruits that vine, should work great. |
| reduces nutrient value of vegetables and fruit. | | | | We'll see what grows in the Summer. Make sure that |
| I am trying one of those "grow your own vegetables | | | | the plants get appropriate, but not too much, sun. |
| upside down" container gardens, because I want to | | | | There are dwarf fruit trees that can be grown in a |
| have it handy on the patio right outside my door. And, | | | | small space and if you have a climate that is suitable |
| it's much easier to maintain that way as well. After | | | | for citrus or apples, then these plants should do well. It |
| visiting a famous theme park area in Florida many | | | | would be more difficult to grow bananas but many |
| times, I was inspired by their huge hydroponic and | | | | varieties of citrus such as oranges and lemons and |
| misting and other unusual agricultural methods of | | | | limes and tangerines and even kumquats could be |
| growing produce, greenhouse. While I started my | | | | grown full sized, on a dwarf tree. If you are lucky |
| hanging upside down garden with a kit, I soon found | | | | enough to have a large garden then the regular |
| that growing the seedlings from seeds doesn't work | | | | method of growing your own fruits and vegetables will |
| very well, so I purchased one tomato plant as a | | | | work great. It is some work, but a benefit is that you |
| starter. All you need to do is make sure that there is | | | | can get good exercise while you are at it. And again, if |
| about a one inch hole in the bottom of a container and | | | | you have no space at all for growing healthy fruits and |
| that you have a hook to hang the pot on, a few feet | | | | vegetables, then going to the local heath food store or |
| off the ground. | | | | market, will work out just fine. |
| Use some of that coconut fiber and after popping the | | | | |