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Organic Farming

Kitchen Gardening

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Organic farming:

Organic agriculture is known as ecological or biological agriculture reflecting the reliance on ecosystem management rather than external inputs.

Kitchen Gardening:

A garden in which plants (such as vegetables or herbs) for use in kitchen are cultivated.

Importance of Kitchen Gardening

•Grow your business at your home as well as get organic food and remain active

•Gardening is the primary employment of Human.

•It is a healthy as well as profitable activity.

•Get fresh vegetables from your garden

•Gardeners have choice to choose the best variety with the taste they like best.

•Garden vegetables are in convenience, unattained with chemicals, economical and time saving on shopping.

•Kitchen vegetables can be decorative.

•Lastly as well as having healthy food, the gardener gets plenty of exercise  and fresh air.

Designing a kitchen Garden

•Make an idea what you want to achieve in your garden.

Technical considerations:

1. selection of site, lack of space

2.Soil

3.Weather condition

4.Prevent the influx of pest and diseases

Selection of site

Locate your garden near the house

Vegetables require at least 6 hours sunshine

Don’t cultivate the plants under the trees

Soil

•loam soil is best for garden

•Its free draining but also moisture retentive.

Acid & Alkaline soil:

vegetables can be grow on soil with pH 5.5 to 7.5.

Drainage system:

To avoid soil become sump water should be drain in to the ditch

üAlternatively dig a soakaway this is deep hole usually at least 2m deep filled with clean rubble.

üWater runs out of the drainage trenches (60 cm deep) in to the hole then slowly soaks away in to the surrounding soil.

Fertilizer:

Chicken manure is the best fertilizer for gardener with high nitrogen and calcium.

Its important to age old for six month for use on edible crops.

Sowing

•Soil crumbs should be small.

•Soil should be neither too wet or not too dry

•The ground should be warm at sowing time.

Harvesting and Storing

•Maturity time for harvesting are different for different crops.

Storing

•Keep the vegetables in cold and dark place.

•There should be space in vegetables and air should be circulate between them.

Weather problems

Wind:

Make wind break to protect the plants.

Frost

•Use cloches, fleece, straw and newspaper to protect the plant from frost.