do you have a vegetable garden at home?
@Zelmarq (12607)
Cebu City, Philippines
August 19, 2007 5:39am CST
When I was young I got used to having a vegetable garden even when our lot area was not really that big.Our old house lot area was bigger than our second house and father got a very area to plant all sorts of vegetables like malunggay, okra, egglant, bitter gourd, patola, camote tops, string beans and a lot more.
I enjoyed when its time for them to pick up for cooking, its good to cook fresh and ornagic vegetables coz its more healthier and theres no extra cost coz its our own product.
I miss those days with father around, now that he no longer with us its just a memory that I enjoy looking back and could bring a smile to my face.
I grew up eating vegetables and its what I like and would really look for coz its more healthy than eating meat and the oily ones.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
19 Aug 07
Do I have veggies growing? HAHAHAHA! You read any of my discussions? Then you've seen the many photos and what not about mine. I have, corn, tomatoes, grapes, apples, strawberries, rasberries, green beans, yellow peppers, zuchinni, oninons, cucumbers and I think thats about it. I have just cukes, zuchinni and tomatoes left to pick though. Seasons almost over here in Minnesota. I love home grown as opposed to store bought. So there ya have it. Oh my grapes and apples will be ready in a mont or so to eat etc.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Yes very much granpa bob, I enjoy all your posts about your garden and their fruits. I evene remember reading your post about an apple from your garden and lots of sorts of flowers with their pictures in their. Your posts bring a smile to my face, and Im just glad we have a grandapa bob like you here on mylot.
@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Its good that we still have memories of gardens and the like its something that brings us smile to our faces when we finally see fruits and eat them.
@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
25 Aug 07
Well that worm feasted on your tomato, it would be nice to feast on that worm it would be a good ingridient for the salad. LOL
have a nice day!
@Idlewild (6090)
• United States
25 Aug 07
No, I live in an apartment. But when I was a teenager I dug up a big chunk of my parents' backyard to plant vegetables. I'm thinking of trying to grow some herbs like basil and parsley, things that I can grow in a small amount of space on a window sill.
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
28 Aug 07
You can try planting it, I love the scent and the taste of basil it makes food yummy.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
24 Aug 07
Lucky you!!
I can hardly myself indulging in kitchen garden exceot for the times when we went our country home. we had a huge farm there and used to grow all kinds of vegetables. eating those is a different experience altogether.
I miss my childhood.
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
I like farms but we dont have enough space for that its good that you have one. You were really trained to do farming, in my case its a small scale.
@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
24 Aug 07
how iw ish i could have that space in my backyard..i like planting veges at home..maybe i am accustomed to that since my father have gardens in our backyard when im still single...we can save a lot if we plant some instead of buying and the nutrients that we can get on the fresh harvest at that without chemicals on it as well..
@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Its nice to have a garden it could mean a lot of savings.
@xiuluoelly (1224)
• China
28 Aug 07
I miss a child living in rural life, then we have a big yard, where the value of various kinds of vegetables, I often give them water, to watch them mature and eat their own species of vegetables feel very satisfied.
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
29 Aug 07
Yes, thats what I also miss, that why I even planted cactus here coz it reminds me of my father and my happy childhood.
@balasri (26537)
• India
24 Aug 07
I don't and can't have one here because I am living in an apartment.When I was a small boy in Sri Lanka we were living in a hill country where the vegetables groe very easily.There I had a beautiful garden growing beans,cabbage and carrots.Pleasant memories!
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Thats the problem of most people who are living in apartments.
@cblackink (969)
• United States
23 Aug 07
I grew up on a farm and always had fresh vegetables. I really miss that. The ones at the grocery store never taste as good to me as the ones my parents grew. I guess I'm spoiled that way. Only the organic ones taste nearly as good as the ones my parents grow. They still have a vegetable garden every year and when I visit, they always give me some. Now I live in the city and have no place to grow them, but one day I will.
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Yes, thats true the vegetables that we plant taste good than the ones from the market, its because they are fresh and all natural, the ones in the market may have pesticides and fertilizers that can alter the taste of the vegetables.
@ranjeetkolarkar (1595)
• India
23 Aug 07
ya, we do have one at our home in my native place.
Now that i have moved out of my native place to other city due to my job, i do not have a kitchen garden now.
@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Same with me my firned, im away from home now but even in my apartment have have a few pots of cactus plants but not one of those vegetables that we have in the province.
@aweins (4199)
• India
24 Aug 07
Hi Zelmarq, i was having it before, before means before my marriage .
now after marriage i am living in a flat and we dont have much space to grow anything. we can just live there nothing else. we are having a nice beautiful kitchen garden at my parent's place. there its a bunglow so its far more comfortable to do anything as you know that all the space is yours and there is nobody to question you. i really miss the place a lot here. with our kitchen garden we are having some fruit trees too. we are having beans, carrots, raddish, okra, eggplant, green chillies, mint, and we are having a tree of jackfruit. when the fruit comes, it comes in such large volume that we distribute it to all our neighbours also. we are having one pumpkin plant too. it is at times difficult to manage it as it is very heavy and need support. my dad looks after it. he loves gardening. i really miss all that. it was such a fun to sit there, do some gardening at times, cook ther vegetables which are grown by you, yourself. i miss all that a lot.
now here my routine and life style is totally different, but i really miss my fresh home grown veggies a lot.
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Its a nice past time and aside from that we will be able to benefit from eating vegetables. Thats the disadvantage of living in the city we miss a lot of things that we once enjoyed when we were in our parents' house.
@lyndee22 (1210)
• Philippines
22 Aug 07
I have a vegetable garden in the backyard. I always maintain to have it planted with different vegetables year round. My husband planted the surroundings with malunggay and katuray.I have climbing trellis for the patola and ampalaya. I have planted eggplant, camote, squash, stringbeans, okra, pechay and saluyot also grows on it. we also planted papaya. It's always nice to look at a fresh green vegetable garden and cooking a freshly harvested vegetable. It is good for health and helped a lot in budget. It also give some money.
@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Thats nice of you me frined, the vegetables sounds familiar, are you fromt he Philippines?
@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
I also like gardening, even at home and in my apartment I have cactus collection.
@rubygrace (646)
• Philippines
22 Aug 07
my husband love vegetable that's why we have,he plant Vegetable garden in our backyard,like egg plant,okra, malungay,ampalaya or bitter ground,kangkong and alugbati and we have a small flower garden too,orchids,rose and uforbia flowers.
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
I can see that your vegetables sounds like mine, are you fom the Philippines, speciafically visayas or mindanao?
@thefortunes (2367)
• Netherlands
24 Aug 07
Hi Zelmark, yes i have a small vegetable garden. And in it I am growing tomatos and some green onions, and strawberries, and this is it. I dont reallyhave the time or i would probably do way more vegetables and fruits in there
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Its good to have a samll garden than never having one at all. As long as you have the spce theres no problem with that.
@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
19 Aug 07
We live in an apartment so it's hard for us to have our own, but one day when we move into a house a vegetable garden would be nice. My fiance had vegetable gardens all of his life, and we both agree that the best vegetables are the ones we grow ourselves.
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
I also live in an apartment here in the city so I only planted cactus and those plants that can fit small pots.
@jennifer611 (2514)
• United States
19 Aug 07
Yep, we do have a small garden.
we have some tomato's and different types of peppers.
just a few different veggies.
and then in a different section we have plants and flowers.
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
The size of the garden does not matter as long as you have something planted and something to harvest in the end.
@mipen2006 (5528)
• Australia
20 Aug 07
I did when I lived in Australia, but in Thailand I live in a townhouse, so there isn't much room. My wife does grow some herbs, and a as many shrubs and flowers as she can fit into the limited space.
@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
At least even with a little spcae she was able to plant and maximize the space, if theres a will thers a way.
@saigonwarrior (1331)
• United States
19 Aug 07
Yes, I have a small garden. Tomatoes, green peppers, squash, zucchini, cucumbers and cantaloupe. I enjoy fresh vegetables from the garden so much more than store bought ones. I also would much rather eat vegetables than meat.
And yes, they are healthy and seem to taste so much better freshly picked :)
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Yes its fresh and it brings us joy whenever we can share them to our neighbors coz this could somehow encourage them to plant vegetables as well.
@lazywalt99 (177)
• United States
19 Aug 07
Yes, I have a small vegetable garden at my home. I grow tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, cabbage, and a variety of peppers. I love using fresh ingredients in my food, and they're often expensive at the store, so I choose to grow my own.
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
Its good that instead of buying these expensive vegetables we have the benefit of only picking them when they are ready for harvest and that gives us good health and a lot of savings.
@Cindi1986 (27)
• United States
19 Aug 07
I wish our house has a garden for either veggie or flowers _
@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
24 Aug 07
You can try planting and for sure you will enjoy it and also reap the harvest of your labor.