Managing Heavy Equipment

Beginning gardeners often worry about how much work a home garden can be. While starting your own fruit and vegetable garden can indeed be a lot of work, it has its rewards, too. Once you experience some of these benefits for yourself, you'll wonder why you waited so long to start the garden you've been dreaming about.

You Get the Freshest Produce Possible

When you buy produce at the grocery store, you're never quite sure how long it's been sitting around. Sometimes you don't even have information about where in the world your produce came from. In your own garden, on the other hand, you know exactly how far from harvest your fruits and veggies are and you also know exactly what you're getting. Once you taste produce from your own garden, you'll notice that there's a tremendous difference in eating food immediately after it's harvested.

You Can Grow a Huge Variety

In the grocery store, you maybe have one or two choices for some vegetables. You can get white or yellow onions, for example, but maybe not more exotic varieties such as the Texas Supersweet onion. Having a wider array of choices can make the difference between picky eaters enjoying what's on their plate and turning their noses up at fruits and vegetables. Since you're picking and choosing what plants go into your garden, you're in charge of the process. If you want to add four different varieties of tomatoes, then you have that option. You can also try out smaller crops to find out how they'll grow in your garden and if your family will like them.

You Can Share Your Extras

One of the best benefits of having your own backyard garden is that you can share any extras that you have with your friends, family, and neighbors. If they have their own gardens, you can start trading your excess fruits and vegetables with each other. This gives you even more variety and helps everyone. Depending on your neighborhood, you might even consider starting a community garden where everyone pitches in and then enjoys the fruits of your labor.

But if you're worried that you have to invest a ton of money in gardening equipment, rest easy. With the wide range of garden rentals available, you can rent just the tools you need when you need them. Then you take them back and keep the room in your garage.