Greenenvironmental's Blog

It’s spring again, and I want to appeal to everyone to please start gardening!  Whether you have a large garden outdoors, or just a few potted herbs growing indoors, the plants you can grow contain hundreds of different nutrients, from the major nutrients we all know about, to minor nutrients we are still discovering.  For instance, rosemary is reported to improve memory, and that means rosemary must contain some nutrient(s) which improves brain function; what those nutrients are, or how they work, is still unknown.  Nutritious food is like high octane gasoline, and high test gas ‘cures’ engine knock by allowing the engine to work better, not by changing the way the engine works, and switching back to cheaper, low octane gas, causes the knocking to return.

I have been gardening for decades now, and the one thing I’ve learned is that you don’t need a green thumb to garden (I kill lots of plants every year), what you do need is a commitment to gardening, that is, to grow things.  A garden is like having a pet, and what it needs from you is to provide water, food, and shelter, along with a little nurturing, so they can grow on their own.  In the end, the cost of gardening is insignificant compared with the cost of getting sick(engine knock), and the best way to avoid getting sick is to get all the nutrients you can into your diet and allow your body’s own immune system to work better keeping you healthy.  So please, please start gardening, gardening is like growing your own multi-vitamins which help keep you and your family healthy- and as far as nutrients go, more IS better.