There are a lot of great reasons to grow your own vegetables. I know that for the most part homegrown veggies taste a lot better than the store-bought type. Putting together a garden, even a small one, and taking care of it all year is wonderful exercise. It's also a fun family experience and saves money. In fact, according to the National Growers Association, a typical small, well-maintained food garden may yield a $500 return on investment.

Did you know you could burn 230 to 325 calories an hour by gardening? No gym membership required! Just go outside and get involved in your garden. Strengthened muscles and some pretty good aerobic exercise are the beneficial side effects of growing your very own SuperFoods!

And by the way, when you grow your own food, you know exactly what soil it is grown in, how it was fertilized, if it was sprayed with anything nasty, and how it was harvested. That's a very 'green' solution to putting healthy food on the table.

There's a tremendous amount of satisfaction that comes from planting, harvesting and eating your own SuperFoods. You'll make mistakes no doubt. I once ruined a garden full of sweet corn by placing them too far apart for proper pollination! We ended up with a beautiful crop of tall green corn stalks but no ears of corn!! Don't be discouraged though. When you get it right, oooh it tastes so good! I still remember the bean plant teepee my oldest son and I made when he was 4 years old. He loved sitting inside his teepee and eating the beans he picked off the 'walls.'

I've got my soil prepared and this weekend I'm going to put in our tomatoes, zucchini and lettuce. Once the sugar snap peas and broccoli are finished, then the tri-colored beans will go in. Just thinking about all these tasty homegrown SuperFoods has my mouth watering. What are you going to plant this spring?