Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Let's determine what constitutes a sustainable garden, shall we? To be sustainable it certainly must be able to grow year after year, for many years, right? It also needs to grow healthy, tasty plants in sufficient abundance to be worth doing. How about Growing food you want to eat, so you are motivated to continue growing; Growing economically, so that it is worthwhile doing; and taking care of environmental issues, so that the ground will continue to support growing healthy crops.

Jacob Mittleider's garden at his home - 2145 East Browning Avenue, in Salt Lake City - was used as a garden for over 25 years without ever changing the soil. And my garden at Utah's Hogle Zoo (over the wall from the giraffe exhibit) was in use continuously for 19 years, with no soil amendments or "improvements".

Jacob Mittleider sold his vegetables to the organic markets in SLC for many years, and I donated many, many tons of vegetables to 3 LDS Monument Park Wards, the Bishop's Storehouse, to the Salvation Army, YMCA & YWCA, the Utah Food Bank, etc.

Cost effective? LDS Prepper stated many times that his Mittleider-grown tomatoes cost $.02 per pound to grow. This system is - unless you have endless sources of free manure - the least expensive way to grow a garden. and because yields are multiples of other methods the benefits and motivation are also multiplied.

You know your plants are healthy because you know exactly what nutrition they are getting. And the nutrition they are getting is all natural, from ground-up rocks or from the air (like lightning), with no danger of salmonella, e coli, mad cow disease, or anything else bad.

The availability and storability of the Mittleider nutrients is superb also. A 5, or even a 10 years' supply can be stored in a corner of a garage, storage room, or cellar, with no deterioration, no smell. And even 20 years later they will be as good as they are today.

Buy a can of 23 varieties of heirloom seeds, containing over 31,000 seeds, that will store for up to 20 years in a small spot in your freezer, and you are prepared to grow a garden pretty much no matter what happens. I invite you all to check out the non-profit 501(c)(3) Food For Everyone Foundation at www.growfood.com to learn more.