🍀HOME GARDEN🍀 Author:- G.keerthana

HOME GARDENING 

Article by:- G.keerthana.

• Growing your own vegetables can be fun as well as rewarding.

• All you need to get started is - some decent soil and few plants and this way you provide fresh healthy vegetables.

        My own home garden

•  A good home gardening plan may include selecting the right location, determining the size of the garden, deciding upon the types and varieties of vegetables to plant. 

• It must be noted that there are many vegetables that can be grown in pots.

How to begin with Home Gardening:

1. Site selection.

2. Size of the garden.

3. Deciding on what to grow.

4. Location of vegetables in the garden.

5. Time for plantation.

Gardening images of my own garden:

Uses of Home gardening:-

• Improve your health. Consuming more fresh fruits and vegetables is one of the most important things you can do to stay healthy.

• Save money on groceries.

• Get outdoor exercise.

• Gardening is a natural stress reliever.

• May lower the stress level.

• If you're digging, hauling, and harvesting, your physical strength, heart health, weight, sleep, and immune systems all benefit.

Preparation of organic manure at home:-

• First, segregate your household waste into dry and wet in your kitchen.

• Secondly, put both these wastes in two different containers in the kitchen. 

• Then add dry leaves of the same quantity as the waste and semi-composted material, buttermilk or cow dung to start with the decomposition process.

• Lay twigs or straw first, a few inches deep. 

• Add compost materials in layers, alternating moist and dry.

• Keep compost moist.

Planting tips:

After deciding what plants you will grow in your garden based on the selected spot, amount of sunlight that place gets, soil type, etc.

                                                  Now decide whether you are going to buy saplings or DIY home garden by sowing the seeds. Mentioned below are some planting tips for beginners:  

• If you are buying a sapling, thoroughly examine the plant’s roots, they must be firm, white in color, and dense. Also, check if there are any black spots or white powder on the leaf; this means the plant is not healthy, don’t buy such plants. 

• If you are sowing seeds, put the seeds in a glass of water, mix it with a spoon & leave it for some time; the seeds floating on top are dead seeds, use the seeds that are settled down in the glass for planting. 

Maintenance tips:

• Water properly.

•   Provide enough sunlight.

• Check plants health.

• Clean weeds regularly.

•  Use right fertilizer.

•  Dust off the plants.