Garden Vitamins: The Good Life
By Linda Gray
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About this ebook
There are nine main vitamins we can find in everyday food crops and all of them can be grown at home. Vitamins D and B12 are absorbed through sunlight, and in meat and dairy products, so unless you are keeping your own hens, some vitamins may have to be 'bought' in - although that still doesn't mean hitting the pill bottles... buy organic fresh produce as far as possible and grow the rest of the vitamins you and your family need.
This handy digital copy of Garden Vitamins highlights 28 different fruits and vegetables you can grow at home and collect 9 valuable vitamins to keep your family healthy and well-fed.
All these popular fruits and vegetables have brief but concise growing instructions and are categorized by vitamin so you know exactly what you're getting from your new hobby!
Contents:
#1: Vitamin C:
Peppers
Tomatoes
Strawberries
Blackcurrants
#2: Vitamin A:
Carrots
Pumpkin
Kale
#3 Vitamin B1:
Broad beans
Sweetcorn
Garlic
#4 Vitamin B2:
Spinach
Salsify
Mushrooms
#5: Vitamin B6:
Potatoes
Onions
Cabbage
#6: Vitamin E:
Asparagus
raspberries
Dandelion Greens
#7: Folate:
Beetroot
Green Beans
Parsley
#8: Niacin:
Courgettes (Zucchini)
Peas
Fennel
#9: Pantothenic Acid (B5):
Broccoli
Parsnips
Chicory
Try growing all these wonderful fruits and vegetables at home in your vegetable patch or large containers on the patio.
Linda Gray
Linda Gray lived off the land as a stay-at-home mum on a tiny budget for many years and, among other things, learned how to connect with nature and the simpler things in life. Her experiences led her to pursue her childhood dream of writing and she has been sharing her ideas via books and blogs for more than a decade.
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Garden Vitamins - Linda Gray
#1- Vitamin C
Garden produce high in vitamin C includes peppers, tomatoes, strawberries and blackcurrants. Peppers and tomatoes should be planted every year, but strawberries and blackcurrants need a permanent patch and will produce fruit for a number of years with just a little TLC.
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Peppers and tomatoes are wonderful vegetables to grow in your garden and can be grown in containers if you are short of space. They shouldn't be grown in the same place as they belong to the same family and are susceptible to similar viruses. For the same reason, don't use the same soil to grow peppers that was used to grow tomatoes last year, and vice versa.
Peppers
Sweet peppers come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, as well as colours. Generally red vegetables contain more antioxidants than green, but red peppers aren't always easy to grow in short growing regions. However, there are new hybrid seeds coming out every year that could work well in your area. Check on manufacturer's growing recommendations on seed packets before you buy.
Hot peppers are thought to be good for metabolism and weight loss and are wonderful for spicing up an everyday meal.
From green chili peppers to rainbow blends, hot peppers are often easy to grow, and because the fruits are smaller, they tend to ripen more quickly than sweet peppers, which means you are more likely to be able to get the colour you want!
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Growing:
Start your seeds off in early spring - again, always double check on the seed packet for growing recommendations in your area. Use degradable pots if you can so that when you plant them out later, there's less disturbance to the roots. This isn't absolutely necessary but as degradable pots and pot makers are so readily available nowadays, it seems a shame not to make the most of them, when the alternative is probably plastic pots.
Either way, fill with fresh seed compost and make sure the pots are well-drained. Sow one or two seeds in each pot and water. Keep pots in a warm, light space. In a conservatory or greenhouse is best, although they mustn't get cold at this point, so if your greenhouse isn't heated, it may be too chilly for seeds and seedlings in the early spring. Call on your intuition a little here. If you have a particularly warm spring then go for the greenhouse option.
Watch out for slugs. Slugs love young plants and are the bane of a gardener's life. Surrounding your plants with broken egg shells, sharp sand and/or other organic slug repellents is a must. There's nothing worse than all the delicate stalks of your plants being chewed through overnight. I know, believe me :-)
Keep compost damp but don't over-water. Remove weaker seedlings if you have more than one plant in each pot and keep warm and slug-free