Kitchen Gardening: How to Start Growing Food Today

“Kitchen Gardening in India”! It is an urban concept that develops to grow your own vegetables and cook fresh organic meals for your family.

That ensures 100% exclusion of the harmful chemicals used in the farms nowadays.

Sounds amazing right?
But how free are you to do that?
Do you have that time to look after it? Or enough space to start one?

Here, We are going to address all the WHY, HOW, and WHAT of Kitchen Gardening.

India is the land of farmers. Agriculture and its related activities act as the main source of livelihood for more than 80% population of rural India.

It accounts for about 16% of GDP and 10% of export earnings but the commercialization of agriculture has resulted in the degraded food quality.
The use of chemicals and pesticides to increase the harvest has become a common practice now.

Chemicals like calcium carbide and oxytocin are reportedly used in fruit and vegetable markets, farms for artificial ripening of fruits as well as for increasing the size of fruits and vegetables.

This does not only disappoint your taste buds, But it plays with your health too.
Intake of these chemically processed fruits and vegetables work as toxicants on your body in the long run.

A kitchen garden ensures an inexpensive, regular, and day-night supply of fresh vegetables. These vegetables and fruits are basic to nutrition.

Green vegetables contain nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that protect us against diseases.

Now the question that arises is “how?”

In the era of block-to-block houses with a little or no space at all, starting a kitchen garden is indeed a task.
But let us tell you, kitchen gardening is not limited to open spaces only.

We at the garden plan encourage the beginners to start with whatever space and resources are available right within your house.

Check these out:

Container Garden: Got a packed box apartment house with limited or no open space? Try Containers!

No-dig Vegetables: No soil? No problem! Try the No-Dig Gardening. Potatoes are one of the best veggies to plant in a no-dig garden

BON-Sai It: Make space for those cute little potted trees to bear some fruits for you.

Let’s begin without in-house Kitchen Garden Plan with the Containers:

Kitchen Garden Plan: Containers

1. Get some regular soil from a nursery, add compost coir peat, and natural manure to it.
You can also add cow dung as well as goat dung to keep the soil quality more fertilize organically.
Also, add vegetable peels and other wastes to the soil to create your own compost.

2. Pick some easy to grow seeds right from your regular spice box.
The best ones to start with are coriander, fenugreek, and mustard seeds. These seeds when potted or contained under a centimeter layer of the soil start growing within two or three days.
Soak the seeds overnight for the best results.

3. You can also try Garlic cloves, chili, and tomato seeds.

4. Cut out vegetables to grow greens are also easy.
Reddish and Carrots are the best options.
This is not going to grow a carrot or reddish for you, but it will help you with the green for sure.

5. Make sure the soil is moist before you sow the seeds but prevent overwatering as the seeds might get rotten.

6. Once the seeds are sprouted, keep watering the containers on alternate days or whenever you feel the soil is dry and needs to be watered.

7. Happy Growing

Conclusion

Kitchen gardening is how we can make taste and health go hand in hand. Most of the supermarket purchases travel a long way to reach our table and hence can’t be expected to be fresh. On the other hand, the food You grow in your kitchen garden will be super fresh and in season – which means it got to be super tasty. The fact that you’ve grown it yourself will be all the more satisfying!

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Priti Vats

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