Growing With Your Garden

A simple and healthy way of living...growing your own edible garden.  There are so many benefits:  improving your health with exercise and better nutrition; reducing your carbon footprint; community and family involvement; and saving cash.  Now is the time and it's affordable!  For as little as $40, a garden 10x15 foot plot, a little sweat and dirt, along with some sunshine and liquid sunshine, can produce a bountiful, delicious arrangement of vegetables.  You can get over 150 lbs. of veggies with a grocery price tag at around $300.

I have outlined veggies by color showing their nutritional benefits:

•          Red

Strawberries, tomatoes, red peppers, watermelons, beets, radishes, apples, tomatoes, raspberries

Strengthen collagen proteins in the body; improve memory; prevent lung, prostate, and stomach cancer

•        Orange

Carrots, squash, pumpkins, melons, sweet potatoes

Protect against chronic bronchitis, asthma, and emphysema; reduce the risk of cataracts and lung cancer; decrease cholesterol levels

•  Yellow

Yellow peppers, corn, beans, yellow squash

Protect against chronic bronchitis, asthma, and emphysema; reduce the risk of   cataracts and protect vision; decrease cholesterol levels; prevent tumors and cancer in the colon, breast, and prostate glands

•  Green

Spinach, collard greens, broccoli, kale, tomatillos, cucumbers, asparagus, cabbage, pac choi

Preserve eyesight; maintain heart and skin health; increase enzyme activity to detoxify carcinogens; prevent prostate cancer and lower lipid levels

•  Blue

Blueberries, grapes, plums

Strengthen collagen protein; lower blood pressure; prevent colon, cervical, and prostate cancer

• Purple

Purple cabbage, purple onion, eggplant

Strengthen collagen proteins; prevent cancer; provide anti-inflammatory and analgesic benefits

 

        

 Margie Bates can be contacted at:  webcoach4health@gmail.com