First off, I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of my pictures. My boyfriend, Chris, is the one with the digital camera and he brings it to work with him to take pictures of cool stuff he finds in the woods and fish he catches. So I'm left with my un-fancy, un-smart, camera phone.
Yesterday morning I noticed I had quite a few ripe strawberries after coming back from my morning run! So while making breakfast, I went out and picked them off and took some pictures to document my tiny harvest. The berries don't look small in the picture, but that is a small plate and they are probably about the size of a fingernail - still delicious! That is my small strawberry plant that I have sitting on my steps in a little 8" pot and it looks like I'll have quite a bit more berries to harvest in the coming weeks! Strawberries are an easy plant to keep in a pot because they have shallow roots and are quite happy even in a 6" pot. Strawberries are also perennials so once we have our own house (we rent a tiny house right now: tiny house, tiny harvest) I can plant my little strawberry plant in the ground and keep the harvest coming!
I wanted to share that you don't need to have a vast landscape in order to enjoy your own homegrown, organic food! Many fruits and vegetables have different varieties that are suitable to plant in pots and there are also many ways to get the most out of a small garden. Since we rent here I haven't tilled up the yard, so I have a few plants in pots. I used to have regular house plants and I have some perennial flowers outside, but I decided if I'm going to grow something, why not grow something I can eat and use rather than just look at? I have mostly herbs here that I'm growing on my little front steps garden and I'll be sharing those later on.
Having your own garden makes an impact on any size. Even if you have just one little vegetable pot or a couple herbs, those are still your own and you didn't have to drive to the grocery store and pay for the food. Seeds are very inexpensive, especially with the amount of food you can get from one packet of seeds greatly outweighs how much you would have spent for the same amount of produce at the grocery store. PLUS you have the benefit of seeing where it came from and knowing that there were no harmful chemicals applied. Even buying the plant at the store and bringing it home will save you money. I believe that spending the time to care for your garden and harvesting your own produce is much better than spending the money on the gas to go to the store and then spending the money for the food you can easily grow at home. Instead of spending that time at the grocery store you could be spending that time watering and caring for your plants and harvesting you fresh, ripe produce. Nothing is fresher than picking your meal outside and bringing it inside to cook and eat.
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