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.
👍 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.
🫱 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.
🫱Implements used in Kitchen Gardening
🌿 Spade
🌿 Pickaxe
🌿 Hoe
🌿 Hand sprayer
🌿 Rode
🌿 Rose
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