Do wonder whether your backyard can feed you with the vegetables that you require? A 5ft by 9ft garden is all you need. Just following the tips given here, life can take on a new meaning in your home. Children will get meaniful activities and your kitchen will not lack.
The secret is to till an area that you can manage – give enough manure, water and all the care it requires. You need to have necessary garden tools – a hoe with more that 6inch blade/(s), shovel and wheelbarrow.
If you have not grown your own seedlings – sukumawiki or spinach, these are readily available in a local market. However it ispossible to raise a seed bed in an open box and have the seedlings ready at the time of transplanting.
First the garden ground need to be dug double – that means going 9inch deep into the soil. This creates aeration and increased room for root development and water penetration and storage.
The you need to give the area an equivalent of 9wheelbarrows of manure. Mix well with the soil. Then add and mix about a wheelbarrow of wood ash. This eliminate some worms and provides the crops with calcium, magnesium and phosphorous.
Shape and level the prepared soil-manure-ash mixture. This will be elevated above the normal ground by more than six inches. Compact the sides to prevent the soil from being carried away by water.
The garden is ready. Now plant your vegetables with a 8 to 12 inch spacing. Water the seedlings to enable them hold.For susequent days, each plant requires a cup of water when there is no rain. The whole plot will then take about 20litres of water. Is this not affordable?
The secret is to till an area that you can manage – give enough manure, water and all the care it requires. You need to have necessary garden tools – a hoe with more that 6inch blade/(s), shovel and wheelbarrow.
If you have not grown your own seedlings – sukumawiki or spinach, these are readily available in a local market. However it ispossible to raise a seed bed in an open box and have the seedlings ready at the time of transplanting.
First the garden ground need to be dug double – that means going 9inch deep into the soil. This creates aeration and increased room for root development and water penetration and storage.
The you need to give the area an equivalent of 9wheelbarrows of manure. Mix well with the soil. Then add and mix about a wheelbarrow of wood ash. This eliminate some worms and provides the crops with calcium, magnesium and phosphorous.
Shape and level the prepared soil-manure-ash mixture. This will be elevated above the normal ground by more than six inches. Compact the sides to prevent the soil from being carried away by water.
The garden is ready. Now plant your vegetables with a 8 to 12 inch spacing. Water the seedlings to enable them hold.For susequent days, each plant requires a cup of water when there is no rain. The whole plot will then take about 20litres of water. Is this not affordable?
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