Comments on: 5 Quick Tips on Starting Your Own Garden http://www.thelocalbeet.com/2010/04/21/5-quick-tips-on-starting-your-own-garden/ A practical guide to eating local, in and around Chicago Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:39:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim Magner http://www.thelocalbeet.com/2010/04/21/5-quick-tips-on-starting-your-own-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-931 Tim Magner Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:38:48 +0000 http://www.thelocalbeet.com/?p=4842#comment-931 Included in the reasons to grow some of your own food ought to be better tasting food. If that's not enough, consider: -outdoor exercise (which can lead to better health and lower healthcare bills) -less fossil fuel use (which can lead to less pollution and lower taxes) And if not at home, ask your children's school to add a garden (and incorporate reading, writing, math, science and social studies curriculum with it). For more information (and grants), consider: Valerie Keener at Illinois Department of Natural Resources: http://dnr.state.il.us/education/ http://www.kidsgardening.com/grants.asp See you outside, Tim Magner http://www.greensugarpress.com Included in the reasons to grow some of your own food ought to be better tasting food. If that’s not enough, consider:
-outdoor exercise (which can lead to better health and lower healthcare bills)
-less fossil fuel use (which can lead to less pollution and lower taxes)

And if not at home, ask your children’s school to add a garden (and incorporate reading, writing, math, science and social studies curriculum with it). For more information (and grants), consider:

Valerie Keener at Illinois Department of Natural Resources:
http://dnr.state.il.us/education/

http://www.kidsgardening.com/grants.asp

See you outside,
Tim Magner
http://www.greensugarpress.com

]]> By: Tony http://www.thelocalbeet.com/2010/04/21/5-quick-tips-on-starting-your-own-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-928 Tony Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:29:07 +0000 http://www.thelocalbeet.com/?p=4842#comment-928 I planted potatoes for the first time in my little garden last year and I was delighted with the results. I had some fingerling potatoes that had a few sprouts on then, so I saved them and let them continue to sprout. Then I buried them in the ground and was rewarded with delicious little potatoes later that summer. However, I was surprised that the fingerlings I planted yielded a more rounded/oval-shaped potato and not fingerlings! Fresh potatoes are really delicious! I planted potatoes for the first time in my little garden last year and I was delighted with the results. I had some fingerling potatoes that had a few sprouts on then, so I saved them and let them continue to sprout. Then I buried them in the ground and was rewarded with delicious little potatoes later that summer. However, I was surprised that the fingerlings I planted yielded a more rounded/oval-shaped potato and not fingerlings! Fresh potatoes are really delicious!

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