Five Reasons to Grow your Own

With an abundance of perfect-looking fruits and vegetables for sale in supermarkets, why is growing your own becoming so popular?  Food gardening is becoming popular for at least five reasons:

1. Home grown food often tastes better
2. No pesticides, if you don't use any
3. It's a great hobby
4. No food miles
5. It's a great skill to have

Let's have a look at these five reasons in more detail.

Heirlooms and Hybrids

Have you noticed that the word 'heirloom' has become very popular on seed packets, in seed catalogues and on seed-company web sites?  But when can seeds be called 'heirloom' and why do seed-companies create the impression that heirloom is better than hybrid?