vine time

Starting smalls kids out on the path to liking vegetables, understanding where their food come from (ie: NOT from 'the store.') and having some fun outdoors are all very good reasons to start a vegetable garden in your own backyard or at your local school. The whole movement was given a huge boost this past March when Michelle Obama with a hand from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a group of fifth graders from the Bancroft Elementary School did some planting in the new garden bed in the South Lawn of the White House.

It is a simple fact of life that if you are going to plant a garden you are going to get the inevitable garden pest that would like to share in the harvest, or more often, before you get to harvest much or any at all. Growing up, we often gave more of the veggies to the birds, bugs and rabbits than we got to enjoy ourselves. There was the thought of using chemicals on our tomato plants, but if you are going to grow your own food, wouldn't it make sense to go all organic? Which is why the next time I try I'll being going with the Safer brand Tomato & Vegetable Gardening Kit. With Stake it Easy and its design to make it easy to adequately support the plants as they grow combined with the Tomato & Vegetable Insect killer – it's OMRI listed organic plus will help you control caterpillar and the other common tomato pests waiting to snack on your plants all without contaminating your crops with harmful chemicals.

Get an organic tomato growing kit and have all the fun of a home garden with the pests or the pesticides! Your summer backyard cookouts and BBQs will be better with your own fresh vegetables to share and you and your kids will thank you.