Kitchen Gardening  Tips     

Kitchen Gardening tips

   Kitchen Gardening is an area where vegetables and herbs are grown on the rooftop for household use or around the house. Kitchen Gardening is helped to maintain health by eating fresh vegetables and is some sort of exercise as well. Family members can be utilized their leisure time working in the kitchen garden. Kitchen Gardening can be enhanced the beauty of the house by providing green and neat vegetables. In Pakistan, very few people know about kitchen gardening because vegetable consumption is less in the country. The vegetable consumption in Pakistan is only 50 gm/day/person as compared to the international standard of 300-450gms/day/person. Kitchen gardening plays an important role in maintaining human health because vegetables purchased from the market carry pesticides home, which are very fatal to human health. Kitchen gardening retains the potential for handling food and health for the vast population. The obvious benefits linked with household Kitchen gardens, such as pesticides free produced and accessible at the doorstep on one side and the other hand, herbs, and vegetables having high nutritional values. If these vegetables are grown in the Kitchen garden household can be able to get a balanced diet to provide a healthy society.                   

 1. Scheming for kitchen Gardening         

              

  To make and organize the kitchen gardening easily to give sufficient production, the following things are essential.            

                                                    

  2. Site Selection           

 All vegetables need sunlight. The kitchen gardening should receive at least 7-8 hours of direct sunlight per day.       

   3. Preparation of Soil       

                  

 *Land should loosen up to   10 to 12 inches deep   

 *Avoid operating in the soil when it is too wet.                                 *Max component manure.                             

 *Prepare good beds for seed planting.       

     

   4. Sowing Of Seeds.          

   

   In kitchen gardening, some vegetables both summer and winter are planted through seeds e.g carrot, peas, turnip, radish, spinach, coriander, fenugreek in the winter while bitter, cucumber okra, and watermelons in the summer. For kitchen gardening seeds should be healthy,  physically and genetically pure, and free from diseases.   

  
 4. Raising of Nursery       

 

     For Kitchen Gardening raising seedling nursery, there will need suitable containers and a sterilized growing medium for adequate light and moisture.  

  5. Economic Value     

                                  

 The average vegetable kitchen gardeners could be expected to net Rs 1000 worth of production, with only Rs 300 to 500 investments in their kitchen garden/marla in Pakistan.                                                                    

 6. Soil fertility                                      

             For Kitchen gardening, nutrients often used in organic production are green, manure, compost, and sludge. These do not only provide nutrients but also add organic matter to the soil to boost its water-holding ability.             

 7. Insect and Diseases control                                                                                                                                                            

              One of the careful ways to control pests attack is the use of biopesticides which is key to safe healthy and nutritious vegetable production. Extract of Tabacco leaves and Neem seeds, leave can be effected for this purpose. Other recommended remedies are the use of ash and practicing corp rotation. In the case of severe infection may use of chemical pesticides is recommended having negligible harmful effects on human health. 
  

  8. Value addition                                                                                                                                    It is easy to preserve your kitchen gardening vegetables by making pickles when there is a much harvest. In addition, these pickles can last for many months without a refrigerator. Other items can be dried like tomatoes, onion, spinach, and fenugreek. Carrot jams, carrot juices sweet potato cakes, sweet potato chapatti, garlic paste, and tomato ketchup can extract from the vegetables of Kitchen gardening.