Gardens and Healthy Eating - Are they two sides of the same coin or are they worlds apart?

Healthy Eating foods come from a variety of sources, on an industrial scale with things like wholegrain wheats to small scale home grown foods such as a tomato plant on the windowsill. Should we all grow our own garden vegetables or should we have to rely on the supermarkets to supply us with the latest healthy eating foods at affordable prices, regardless of the carbon footprint cost to the environment.

Perhaps the ideal scenario is to aim for self suffiency, but is this realistic? It would be very difficulty to grow our own vegetables, tender our own livestock and get a healthy balanced diet from only the foods we can grow ourselves, especially in an urban environment.

There are a few good ways we can help our gardens grow and also help the environment whilst complementing a healthy eating diet.

- Invest in windowsill herbs and plants - These cost about £1 for a plant from most supermarkets and if you take care of them with regular watering and plenty of sunlight they should last a good few months.

- Buy a bag of compost and grown mushrooms in a dark, warm place. This could be a well insulated shed or a out of the way cupboard in the house.  Home grown mushrooms don’t need too much attention and should provide a couple of handfuls of mushrooms per year.

- If you have a garden, plant your own vegetables according to the seasons. It’s no use planting your tomatoes in winter, they will probably die, make sure you match the plants to the seasons. There are plently of easy to follow guides for home grown healthy eating foods on the internet so give it a go!

Earlier today infact I came across an apple tree that contains one of the most healthy foods, an apple. It comes no fresher than straight from the tree and you can find some excellent healthy eating recipes at www.healthy2eat.co.uk

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