KITCHEN GARDENING - OLERICULTURE

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                                                        KITCHEN GARDENING

A home garden or kitchen garden refers to the raising of vegetable crops in the back yard of a house. But with the growing demand for the valuable land in urban areas the city dwellers may not have any land adjoining apartment, yet the enthusiasts have interest in growing vegetables over roof or in the verandah. Special arrangements are made on the roof to grow vegetables in soils placed on the floors after using water proof cementing. Other vegetables are grown in boxes, pots such other structures. All these refers to kitchen gardening. Growing vegetables in ones own garden is not only an art but also a continuous training for the person and the family. It supplies fresh vegetables. It constitutes a healthy hobby and the spare time of the family is well utilized. The fresh vegetables not only ensure a better balanced diet but there is also a delicate psychology behind the taste as every one will definitely appreciate the produce obtained by their own effort.


SELECTION OF SITE:

There will be a limited choice for the selection of a site for the kitchen garden.

PRINCIPLES IN LAYOUT OF KITCHEN GARDENING:

  • The perennial plants should be located on one side of the garden, usually on the rear end of the garden so that they may not shade other crops, compete for nutrition with the culture of other vegetable crops.
  • Adjacent to the foot path all around the garden and the central foot path may be utilized for growing different short duration green vegetables like coriander, Ceylon spinach, fenugreek, alternanthera, mint and Amaranthus. Each type of this green can be grown along each side of foot path and these crops can be rotated in different seasons.
  • The fence or trellises around the home garden may be utilized for growing light creepers like Basella, coccinea, sponge gourd and bitter gourd. These may be also rotated in different seasons.
  • The compost pits are placed in two corners of the garden. They are meant for garden wastes and kitchen wastes. Pandals may be Erected over the compost pits and trained with creeper vegetables like lablab, ribbed gourd and snake gourd. This will hide off the compost pits from view.
  • Pandals may also be erected over the central foot bath, grapes varieties like Anab-e-shahi or black prince may be trained over it.
  • Both the sides of the central foot path may be utilized to train tomato plants on single stemmed with the support of stakes.
  • The bunds separating the beds may be used for growing root crops or onion.
  • The conveniently divided small plots may be utilized to produce as much as possible by following a very intensive method of cultivation. This is possible by following continuous crop pattern in the form of succession and companion cropping.   

  REFERENCE:

Introduction to horticulture 8th edition author N.Kumar

 

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