2022 Fall Home and Garden

Page 14 2022 Fall Home & Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS Sept. 23, 2022 Planting and Maintaining a Family Food Support Garden Y our family can do without many things, but food isn’t one of them. With current inflation the price of many food products is soaring. With supply chain issues, many food products are in short supply or missing from the store shelves entirely. If you have an outdoor space where you can plant a vegetable garden, your family can have a consistent nutritious food source and save money. A good starting place would be to have a family meeting to discuss what vegetables they would choose. Family involvement from the start can make this project go better and the foods grown would have a better chance of pleasing them and being eaten if they all had a hand in choosing what they wanted. There are many leafy and root vegetables that can be started early, as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring. Cabbage, lettuces, sweet peas, and a number of root crops like carrots, turnips, radishes are cool weather crops. Most of these have better flavor and texture if harvested before the heat of summer sets in. CONTINUED u