Many more people are planting edibles this year. They are converting lawn to garden and planting in pots and containers. They are growing food to eat.
It's the economy.
It's also healthy. You can grow stuff that tastes so much better than what you can buy at the store. But it takes work and it isn't cheap.
It's a throwback to the way people lived during the war with rationing and such. Only the very rich had large expanses of lawn. Everyone else used every inch of dirt to grow something that could be eaten.
And just because you can eat it doesn't mean it can't look pretty too.
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Date: 2009-06-13 07:22 am (UTC)It's the economy.
It's also healthy. You can grow stuff that tastes so much better than what you can buy at the store. But it takes work and it isn't cheap.
It's a throwback to the way people lived during the war with rationing and such. Only the very rich had large expanses of lawn. Everyone else used every inch of dirt to grow something that could be eaten.
And just because you can eat it doesn't mean it can't look pretty too.