In today’s world, buying commercial vegetables and fruits can be risky. Many of them are treated with high levels of fertilizers, dangerous herbicides, and contaminants. Poor handling conditions often lead to them carrying harmful substances, which contribute to the alarming rise in terminal diseases in our country.

Fruits are not spared either—common fruits like bananas are sometimes ripened overnight with carbide, leading to serious health complications. Mangoes, oranges, guavas, lemons, and many others can also suffer from poor handling, with reports even suggesting that some are forced to ripen inside gutters!

To protect yourself and your loved ones, consider growing your own vegetables at home. You can start with easy-to-grow options like scent leaf, curry leaf, spinach, hospital-too-far leaf, water leaf and ugu.
Vegetables such as carrots, cucumbers, cabbages, beetroots, and tomatoes can also be grown from seeds, which are readily available and packaged for easy planting.
Medicinal trees like moringa, lemon, and soursop can also be grown by purchasing from trusted fruit gardens.
Do a bit of research on best practices for growing each of them and plan your home garden.

Don’t have a backyard? No problem! You can use flowerpots, vases, or even buckets with proper ventilation to grow your vegetables.
This way, you can be sure of what you’re eating, boost your immunity, and keep those terminal diseases far away.

Start your home garden today and share your experiences with us in the comments below. Let’s embrace a healthier lifestyle together!

Compare the amount of fruits and vegetables you eat daily with the amount you're capable of growing at home, even for those who have enough space!

thesicilian:
Compare the amount of fruits and vegetables you eat daily with the amount you're capable of growing at home, even for those who have enough space!

It is still safer and far healthier to grow your own food, you can grow vegetables all year round, with proper irrigation, you are good to go!

Think of how cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and lots more are increasing here in Nigeria, sicknesses that once sounded strange, what is the major culprit-food!!!

Growing your own food remains a win-win!

Estorah:
In today’s world, buying commercial vegetables and fruits can be risky. Many of them are treated with high levels of fertilizers, dangerous herbicides, and contaminants. Poor handling conditions often lead to them carrying harmful substances, which contribute to the alarming rise in terminal diseases in our country.

Fruits are not spared either—common fruits like bananas are sometimes ripened overnight with carbide, leading to serious health complications. Mangoes, oranges, guavas, lemons, and many others can also suffer from poor handling, with reports even suggesting that some are forced to ripen inside gutters!

To protect yourself and your loved ones, consider growing your own vegetables at home. You can start with easy-to-grow options like scent leaf, curry leaf, spinach, hospital-too-far leaf, water leaf and ugu.
Vegetables such as carrots, cucumbers, cabbages, beetroots, and tomatoes can also be grown from seeds, which are readily available and packaged for easy planting.
Medicinal trees like moringa, lemon, and soursop can also be grown by purchasing from trusted fruit gardens.
Do a bit of research on best practices for growing each of them and plan your home garden.

Don’t have a backyard? No problem! You can use flowerpots, vases, or even buckets with proper ventilation to grow your vegetables.
This way, you can be sure of what you’re eating, boost your immunity, and keep those terminal diseases far away.

Start your home garden today and share your experiences with us in the comments below. Let’s embrace a healthier lifestyle together!

I fully support you. Southerners need to start utilizing the space in their compound. A one plot compound can contain up to 10 fruit trees. It is all about managing the space. Bananas, coconuts, Plantain , Oranges, soursop and grated mangoes can be grown in your compound. Thanks for your message.

Estorah:
In today’s world, buying commercial vegetables and fruits can be risky. Many of them are treated with high levels of fertilizers, dangerous herbicides, and contaminants. Poor handling conditions often lead to them carrying harmful substances, which contribute to the alarming rise in terminal diseases in our country.

Fruits are not spared either—common fruits like bananas are sometimes ripened overnight with carbide, leading to serious health complications. Mangoes, oranges, guavas, lemons, and many others can also suffer from poor handling, with reports even suggesting that some are forced to ripen inside gutters!

To protect yourself and your loved ones, consider growing your own vegetables at home. You can start with easy-to-grow options like scent leaf, curry leaf, spinach, hospital-too-far leaf, water leaf and ugu.
Vegetables such as carrots, cucumbers, cabbages, beetroots, and tomatoes can also be grown from seeds, which are readily available and packaged for easy planting.
Medicinal trees like moringa, lemon, and soursop can also be grown by purchasing from trusted fruit gardens.
Do a bit of research on best practices for growing each of them and plan your home garden.

Don’t have a backyard? No problem! You can use flowerpots, vases, or even buckets with proper ventilation to grow your vegetables.
This way, you can be sure of what you’re eating, boost your immunity, and keep those terminal diseases far away.

Start your home garden today and share your experiences with us in the comments below. Let’s embrace a healthier lifestyle together!

Laziness, forming and I pass my neighbor syndrome wunt let them

Estorah:


It is still safer and far healthier to grow your own food, you can grow vegetables all year round, with proper irrigation, you are good to go!

Think of how cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and lots more are increasing here in Nigeria, sicknesses that once sounded strange, what is the major culprit-food!!!

Growing your own food remains a win-win!

You're saying if I need to eat apples, mangoes, oranges, watermelons etc I should plant them in pots inside my 3 bedroom apartment on the 4th floor of my building in Lagos? Or the man who lives in a self contained apartment should plant his own pumpkin, bitter leaf and other vegetables and expect enough harvest to feed him all year round?
You and I both know you're not being realistic but it's okay.

Is it the ones people have been eating before 1000BC and still eating till tomorrow?

Estorah:
In today’s world, buying commercial vegetables and fruits can be risky. Many of them are treated with high levels of fertilizers, dangerous herbicides, and contaminants. Poor handling conditions often lead to them carrying harmful substances, which contribute to the alarming rise in terminal diseases in our country.


Start your home garden today and share your experiences with us in the comments below. Let’s embrace a healthier lifestyle together!

1.) High levels of fertilizer is not harmful to humans but to the plant as it will kill it and you won't be able to consume it.

2.) "Dangerous herbicides" is a funny term as herbicide is dangerous already but you don't spray herbicide on your plants as it will kill it and you won't be able to consume it.

This is not to say some farmers don't apply chemicals recklessly but you can promote home gardening without giving wrong info.

Cheers.

Redman44:


I fully support you. Southerners need to start utilizing the space in their compound. A one plot compound can contain up to 10 fruit trees. It is all about managing the space. Bananas, coconuts, Plantain , Oranges, soursop and grated mangoes can be grown in your compound. Thanks for your message.

Great, thanks for this!

joycluv:


Laziness, forming and I pass my neighbor syndrome wunt let them

thesicilian:


You're saying if I need to eat apples, mangoes, oranges, watermelons etc I should plant them in pots inside my 3 bedroom apartment on the 4th floor of my building in Lagos? Or the man who lives in a self contained apartment should plant his own pumpkin, bitter leaf and other vegetables and expect enough harvest to feed him all year round?
You and I both know you're not being realistic but it's okay.

There are cases where it is practically impossible, but once an opportunity comes up and you get a little land space, please grow a garden!

You can also do a bit of research on indoor vertical farming, it's been practiced abroad by people who have no available land but want to grow their own vegetables, you will find it interesting

quadraheem:
Is it the ones people have been eating before 1000BC and still eating till tomorrow?

The agricultural practices then and now are very different, vegetables were largely grown organically and retain their natural nutrient compositions but with the advent of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and other harmful agrochemicals, the chances of commercialized fruits and vegetables been highly contaminated is very high!

numen:


1.) High levels of fertilizer is not harmful to humans but to the plant as it will kill it and you won't be able to consume it.

2.) "Dangerous herbicides" is a funny term as herbicide is dangerous already but you don't spray herbicide on your plants as it will kill it and you won't be able to consume it.

This is not to say some farmers don't apply chemicals recklessly but you can promote home gardening without giving wrong info.

Cheers.

Thanks for your comment.

On your first comment, fertilizers are actually very harmful to humans, research has shown that when we consume crops treated with these fertilizers, harmful chemicals can enter our bodies, leading to serious health problems like cancer, kidney damage, and other terminal diseases. These fertilizers can also contaminate our water supply when there is a runoff during rainfall from farmlands to water bodies, affecting not just our health but the environment too. For safer and healthier food, it's better to go natural and consider organic farming methods.

On your second comment, thanks for pointing it out, it's a typographical error, meant to type pesticides not herbicides.

Thanks!

Estorah:


There are cases where it is practically impossible, but once an opportunity comes up and you get a little land space, please grow a garden!

You can also do a bit of research on indoor vertical farming, it's been practiced abroad by people who have no available land but want to grow their own vegetables, you will find it interesting

Okay, will check it out

The subject is analyzed effectively.

GoodJohn:
The subject is analyzed effectively.

Thanks!