Vegetable Gardens (pro) VS Flower Gardens (con)

Let's start. First off, I would like to define flower gardens and vegetable gardens. "A vegetable garden (also known as a vegetable patch or vegetable plot) is a garden that exists to grow vegetables and other plants useful for human consumption" By this definition fruits and herbs count as part of a vegetable garden. "A flower garden is any garden where flowers are grown for decorative purposes." (1) First of all, the most obvious benefit of having a vegetable garden is that you grow your own food. Fruit, vegetables and herbs are very important to the human diet. While you can just pick some produce up your local market these store-bought produce is not as nearly as fresh and high-quality as grown food. At stores the seeds are chosen for their transportability and shelf-life and not for their quality, health benefits and ripeness. The conditions that the seeds are raised in are "not consistent." Once the the produce is ready machines pick the fruits which can cause injury and the loss of nutrients from the produce. There is also the possibility that the food will be harvested prematurely, if that happens the food may taste bad and have less nutrients inside of it. When the produce is being taken to the market it can travel up to or more than 2414 km (1500 miles) during the trip the produce will lose nutrients every day it is on the road. The solution to that is home-grown produce. If you want to learn more about the benefits of home-grown produce over store-bought produce then read this. I ask my opponent to read this link before he posts his argument. http://www.aerogardenblog.com... Grown produce is much more high quality than what you would get at Superstore, or Costco or any supermarket. And not only does this food taste better it is much more healthy! "People who grow their own vegetables are also more likely to eat fresh, seasonal foods that are high in fiber and low in fat." And that is not all! In the second part of my argument I shall explain even more health benefits that are not only food related . (2) Let's be honest. No one likes hard work. Hard work is called hard for a reason. But hard work has it's benefits. The same thing goes with gardening. The harder you work making your garden great the better you fruits, vegetables and herbs will be! And plus, all of that hard work and toll on your body is for the better. Gardening helps burn body fat, grow muscles and help give you a longer, healthier, happier life! Now you could say that tending to flower gardens can also help you become more healthy, to that I say yes, tending to a flower garden will give you the same health benefits. BUT, I think that tending to a vegetable garden has a point unlike flower gardens. Flower gardens are meant for aesthetics while vegetable gardens are used for food. Food is necessary for human survival thus making vegetable gardens much more worth the hard work. Would you rather have nice looking plants or food so you can live? The answer is obvious. I think that you and I prefer to be alive than dying. The labor that you are doing with your vegetable garden is worth the pain unlike flower gardens which is purely for decoration. Besides, vegetable gardens can be pretty even if that is not it's purpose. (3) In this final part of my argument I will discuss the economic side of vegetable gardening. Not only can you eat fresh produce but you can sell it! "Locally sourced produce is increasingly on the menu at restaurants and on sale in markets and shops. So if you've got a glut of gooseberries or a rash of raspberries and radishes, perhaps you could make some money from them. Several projects have sprung up with the aim of helping people gain an income off the land. The bad news is that you're unlikely to make enough to give up the day job, but selling your surplus should make tending the veg plot more worthwhile." Gardening may not make you Bill Gates, but the more money to pay the bills and feed the family the better! I am sure some people take seeds out the food they produced and plant those seeds so they can get even more produce which means more money! But of course, there are costs. Gardens need a lot of care and you will need lots of supplies. Supplies cost money. So yes, vegetable gardens will cost you money. However, flower gardens require care as well, so by saying that flower gardens are better than vegetable gardens are better because of costs is totally useless. Plus the money spent on vegetable gardens is much more worth it! As they say, you gotta spend money to make money. http://www.theguardian.com... http://www.livestrong.com... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... Back to you, pro! DDD