Produce: buy or grow

Hi charblaize, At my hometown, we used to grow our own vegetables and fruits because we have a small farm there. We have fruits tree like banana, rambutan, durian and a few more. It is very exciting when this fruits season came. We can ate as much as we want to. And we ate it fresh. If we have extras, we can sell it at the local market.

i grow a few of my own vegetables and some strawberrys id like to do more but i live in a top floor bedsit i enjoy growing them n they taste so much better all orgnic

If I could, I would prefer to grow my own. It would be great to have a garden to eat from, all those fresh and delicious homegrown vegetables such as tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, bell pepper. Yum! They do taste best that way. If I can't grow my own, and I can't since I live downtown, a Farmer's Market would be great, if I had a car and drove that is. So I will settle for whatever the market has because that is what is available to me. I do try to wash them off very carefully though before eating. I do love vegetables and fruits!

Why buy if we can grow and produce but what made us lazy to do so sometimes we don't have enough time or we don't have a piece of land to have it done. I remember I really enjoyed going to our home town where vegetables and fruits are just being given by relatives and friends. We do enjoy eating young coconuts and harvesting crops. Really it's fun having a little farm or even a vegetable garden.

I prefer to plant my own vegetables, because the treatment can be controlled and it is definitely more healthy, or buying from the farmers. by buying from the farmers can further increase economic growth.

I grow a small garden every summer - sometimes I get more from it than others, but the veggies I grow definitely taste better than anything I have bought in the grocery store. Farmer's markets are great too - but when I have no option - I have to go with the local grocery store. The veggies there aren't terrible, but any of the tree fruits (Peaches, nectarines, plums ) are usually not so good.

Next spring, i plan to put in a garden. I was getting the land cleared off this year, and did not have much of an opportunity to do gardening, with all the work that we have had to do. I believe growing your own vegetables, is healthier, and tastes better also. We have canned a lot of food this year, most of it came from other locals gardens.

You're lucky to still have your grandma! Lots of people with no yard space have containers. My dad can't handle a garden anymore so he got a 5 gallon bucket and put a tomato plant in it and it's producing like crazy--he's very happy with it! No yard at all?! Not even a space for a pot? You could get a topsy-turvy and hang it from your window for tomatos. They have the instructions to make your own for free, too. I grew my first garden this year and most things didn't come up but I had a lot of green beans and they're still growing. I prefer to grow my own or go to a farmer's market. Things from the grocery taste funky for some reason.

I'd love to live off the land! I live on the 7th floor of an apartment building and while there's the balcony for some minor gardening I might want to do, I've just been procrastinating. One of these days I'll get around to having a container garden there.

I would LOVE to be able to grow my own produce. Unfortunately I just don't have the yard space right now to really grow a garden. One of these days though, when my husband and I purchase a house, we will have a garden and grow our own produce. For now i purchase my produce from the grocery store and farmer's market.

U pick strawberries,and eat them ,thats the purpose oF growing them,yes u need space,, growing vegies is the best choice,, enjoy,,

I prefer to grow my own produce so that I don't have to pay the potentially high prices plus this way I know that it is also fresh. I also enjoy canning certain items so that I can have them during the winter months.

This year we made a little garden and grew just veggies that we wanted and knew we would use. When we ran out of space we got some large containers to grow tomatoes and squash in. One thing about growing is you have to keep up with it, not just throwing seeds in the ground and letting it go. LoL. We actually had stink bugs infest some of our squash plants. I don't like to use pesticides, especially on something I plan to eat. So we did lose some to the little buggers. We don't have a local farmers market that I'm aware of so if we didn't grow our own we would buy it from the grocery store. Like during the winter we don't have a heated green house or any proper area in the house that we can grow, so we have to buy from the grocery store. Someday I hope to have a green house so it's possible to grow year round. My mother and step father built one and that's what they do. I love going out to the garden and picking something to use for dinner. :D Hope your having a good day. :)

You can grow a bunch of stuff on your deck it is easy and you will have a lot of fun with it. Plus I think it is easier to grow them on your deck or balcony.

I would love to grow my own, but I am not very good at getting around to the work of actually making a garden area in my yard. The most I have ever done is grow a mint plant and tomatoes in my Aerogarden. I end up buying most of my produce at the grocery store, but when I am able to go to the Farmer's Market I like to get things there even though it is more expensive.