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Welcome to sublimegarden.com, a how to guide for budding kitchen gardeners. Under the tabs you will find step by step “how to” guides, categorized by month. All the information you need to have a successful, and sublime gardening experience can be found here.

Growing a vegetable garden will be a rewarding experience for you and your family. Your garden will keep your family feed with fresh vegetables all year. A garden can be done on a small scale, like we discuss here. You can also take these principals and apply them to large scale community gardening.

Gardening has many obvious benefits...i.e. great tasting fresh vegetables, reducing the grocery bill, fun family pastime. Who can deny the zen like meditative joy of watching something grow, bear fruit, and the satisfaction of eating it. The bigger benefits may not be so noticeable. I’ll take a moment to connect the dots. By picking a tomato out of your garden, you off set a chain of events.

  • 1. You didn't drive to the store, you saved on gas, slowed down the greenhouse effect. Score 1 point for the environment!
  • 2. The store didn't have to furnish you with a little plastic bag, paper receipt, refrigeration of the product, or washing the product with a cute rainstorm sprinkler systems. You're saving water, paper, plastic, electricity, and the cost of recycling. The environment scores another point!
  • 3. This tomato you picked from your garden did not get shipped from anywhere. You are saving gas for transportation. YOUR GARDEN WILL REDUCE OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL!
  • 4. The farm that your store bought tomato would have come from is no farm at all. It is a gigantic tomato field that stretches out for miles on end. This type of mass hormone infused growing is the only kind that is subsidized by the government. This type of production drastically reduces the cost involved with growing vegetables. It makes food in the grocery store much cheaper for us to buy. It also has many health and environmental disadvantages.
  • A. Small farmers loose the local market, cant compete with low prices of big corporations.
  • B. The soil is stripped of nutrients that have to be replaced, ie... nitrogen. The cheapest way to replace the nitrogen is by using ammonium nitrate. Ammonium nitrate is used to build explosives
  • C. Cultivating a small garden is tough work. Imagine the amount of energy that is required to cultivate, harvest, and maintain a garden the size of 10 football fields.
  • D. The hormones in our food have been proven to cause premature development in children.
  • E. These cheaply gown foods supply our nations fast food chains. Our nations fast food chains have reshaped the way we eat. The lack of nutrients in fast food combined with high fat, salt, and sugar has stimulated a health crisis in this country. A nationwide increase in obesity can be attributed to fast food. A nationwide increase in diabetes, congestive heart failure, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, hypertension, gall bladder disease, and sleep apnea are all directly related to obesity. The cost of health care has risen because of obesity. YOUR GARDEN WILL REDUCE THE COST OF HEALTHCARE.
  • F. Obtaining our food from one centralized source greatly ... I mean exponentially increases our risk for food born illness. Bacteria spread easily and quickly from field to table. If contamination starts too far up the chain, widespread outbreak can occur before the source is identified. Again...YOUR GARDEN WILL REDUCE THE COST OF HEALTHCARE!
  • 5. The tomato you picked from your garden, instead of buying, did not get picked by a gas operated machine. The machinery used on these mass production food farms has greatly reduced the amount of labor required to grow vegetables. The reduction of labor decreases the amount of available jobs. Our national unemployment rate is at an all time high. You can see where this is going. In a very real way, gardening could be the fix all for this countries most pressing issues.