HOMEGROWN Home Services Pots Classes About Contact Why Grow Your Own? Sun-warmed tomatoes, tender green beans, fresh salad greens - the taste, texture and variety of homegrown vegetables is far superior to anything available in the market. Growing your own means vegetables are picked when they are fully ripe and eaten in season, direct from the garden. As every chef knows, having the best quality produce in the right season is vital to eating well. “But when we drove into Le Paquis in the first shy sunlight, we shed our city clothes and bathed and put on dungarees again, and hurried down into the garden. We had been away too long.” M.F.K. Fisher, The Gastronomical Me Gardens