kitchen Gardening...

 Article by Lehitha Munasa 

 🫱what is Kitchen Gardening??
👍Kitchen garden is the art of growing fruits and vegetables in the back yard of house to meet the needs of family.
🫱 Importance of kitchen Gardening
         ✨ Protects the health.
          ✨ Seasonal and desired vegetables can be grown.
           ✨ Contributes sustainable living.
           ✨  Vegetables can be grown through out the year.
           ✨ The produced vegetables are free from harmful chemicals.
          ✨ Saves money.
           ✨ You can overcome the shortage of vegetables from market and you no need to go to the market daily.


🫱 Layout Of Kitchen Gardening
👍 Mostly Kitchen Garden is like to have rows to walkable space between them.
👍 Rows are planned in such a way that they acquire more sunlight hrs(3-7hrs per day)
👍 Layout can also planned in square and vertical manner.

.                            ✨Row type✨.                         ✨ Square type ✨.                          ✨ Vertical type ✨
🫱 How to plan a Kitchen Garden?
💫 Choose the best place in your home to start a. Kitchen Garden at backyard  where there is accomodation of sunlight.
💫 Select suitable soil that will set to crops you grown.addition of organic matter such as vermicompost and Coco peat to soil make the soil more retain the moisture.
💫Decide the Fruits and vegetables that you like to grow. Sow the seeds or plants in soil.
   Note: select the seasonal varieties of crops to grow .
💫 Spacing must provided blw plants or seedlings to avoid crowding.
💫 Water them regularly .it is better to water them with nozzle to uniform distribution of water for every seedling or sapling.
💫 Wediging or fencing can be used for plants to shelter from wind.
💫 Ground fertilizers or kitchen compost can be used as light application of fertilizers.
💫 Harvest the crops when you are plan to use them so they will be fresh to cook them.
🫱Implements used in Kitchen Gardening
   🌿    Spade
    🌿   Pickaxe
     🌿  Hoe
    🌿   Hand sprayer
     🌿  Rode
     🌿  Rose
     🌿  Secateur.

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