Gardening

You want to be as successful planting vegetables as your idol, feeding the world, saving big and even getting paid to do so.

But you know you haven’t got a chance of seeing that kind of success unless you can truly plant your vegetables and care for them over the long haul.

Of course, the big question is how?

Planting vegetables for beginners is elusive

Sure, you get the occasional sprouts, a handful of produce, but it’s not like even your family members are raving about your garden, or even caring about what you do.

You worry that this hobby is not worth your time, that you might not produce anything to feed your family and save more, that you might not get even a single dime from growing your vegetables, that you are just wasting your hard earned cash, but you’ll be damned if you can figure out the magic formula.

And the truth is unless you can find a way to successfully plant your vegetables, your vegetable garden is doomed to failure.

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Once featured on the CNN as the flower garden of Europe, Kenya flower industry is easily and gradually losing its glory. Or isn’t it?

And yes, I’m speaking from a grower’s perspective because I am one. I want to give you a sneak preview, though.

Kenya has been an attractive flower producer because of her favorable growing conditions, cheap skilled labor and rising demand for competitively priced flowers in the main destination markets. I assume that’s public knowledge.

No wonder in 2014 Kenya was in the top 5 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of flower bouquet. #4 to be precise as shown below. [Source: World’s top export]

1. Netherlands: US$4.7 billion (48.1% of total flower bouquet exports)
2. Colombia: $1.4 billion (14.1%)
3. Ecuador: $798.4 million (8.2%)
4. Kenya: $698.5 million (7.2%)
5. Ethiopia: $610.4 million (6.3%)

You don’t achieve such kind of results over-night, do you?

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Approximately 30-60% of all vegetable garden – fails and another 20% thrives but sucks. Only 20% succeed because they know the secret. The latter understand that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

As a beginner gardener, you have a choice. You can choose to master the secret and succeed or ignore at your peril. If you are reading this, it’s because you’ve acknowledged that gardening is by far the most fulfilling hobby. You’ve also realized that the cost of food is becoming unaffordable and, therefore, want to grow your own.

But not just yet. What’s the secret for succeeding in growing vegetables? You ask.

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I’ll admit it. Most vegetable gardening tips out there sucks.

See, vegetable growing isn’t all that sexy, and at times, it gets a lot of hate.

Most cases, the annoyance, makes sense. At some point, you’ve felt the excitement of growing your food, either to supplement your diet or just make some extra bucks.

Or maybe, as an agribusiness venture.

You’ve meticulously prepared your media, brought best quality seeds or seedlings, quickly grown them and waited for a flourishing garden.

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