How to start growing food at home: Vegetable gardening at Home

Growing your own food provides you with healthy life, happy life.

If you are ready to make your hands dirty to start your own garden, you are a beginner, then this article is for you.

Starting your own vegetable garden requires motivation, patience and most importantly caring for the plants you grow. It requires consistent effort to yield the fruit from seeds.If you want to start then start growing from seeds directly.

Growing from saplings/seedlings acquired from somewhere else like nursery requires extra care so that plant settles in new environment. Yes you heard it right, plants also need adjustments in new environment like human beings.

Many beginner in my opinion makes this mistake and get the seedlings/plants from somewhere else and eventually because of lack of how to care for these plants, these plants die often.

The Start

Space is not a constraint, in the smallest of spaces it could be started.

There are some vegetables which may not be grown in small spaces due to their more space requirements, but there are some which can be grown easily such as tomato, almost all greens (Spinach, Fenugreek, Lettuce and so on).

My Balcony Garden Tour

There are different varieties of seed which are the perfect varieties for the home gardening, such as dwarf varieties. Dwarf variety seeds can grow from 4 to 10 feet.

There are some veggies, which can be grown directly from your home vegetables or seeds right directly from your home. There are very easy methods to grow which, I have learnt during this wonderful experience of growing at home.

Finally I leave you with some of the videos and options to buy some starter items for easy home growing till next time. Happy Gardening!!

How to grow Fenugreek (Methi) at Home easily

How to grow Tomato at Home using Tomato

Starter Products for your own Vegetable Garden

Seed Trays

Tools

Pots, Grow Bags

How to prepare pots for planting : 10 simple steps

Preparing pot for planting is always confusing. There are 10 steps to prepare the pots for planting. How to prepare pots for planting in 10 steps 1. Soak the terracota pot in water for 1-2 hrs (not required for plastic pots or grow bags). Check that there is drainage hole and it works. 2. Cover the drainage hole with stone or gravel. This helps in avoiding blockage of drainage hole by soil. 3. Put one layer of Coarse soil till stone level to cover it well. 4. Put one layer of cocopeat or sand for good water holding capacity. 5. Cover with one more layer of coarse soil. 6. Put one layer of compost , if you are prepare compost at home use that 7. Prepare pot mix in 2:1:1 Ratio of Soil:Compost:Cocopeat or Sand and put the soil in the pot to cover it well. 8. Prepare water for 1st time with putting 1 cap neem oil. Ratio of Water to Neem oil should be around 10 to 1. Neem is natural pesticide repellant and make soil healthy. 9. Pour the water into the pot and cover soil...

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