Or, more likely, you've walked through the produce section of your local grocery store and found that you'd need to take out a second mortgage to afford a bag of apples and a salad, and that tomatoes are $1.25 each. Growing your own vegetables is looking like a real, practical, solution to cutting down your food bill. But the closest thing to farming you've ever done is growing a tomato plant in a pot on your porch. And it died.

Growing a garden is easier than you think. With a bit of practice and enough space, you can economically supplement your grocery bill with home grown veggies -- veggies which are healthier and tastier than anything you can buy in the store.