Posted on July 23, 2009 in Uncategorized
Chemicals have pervaded our living space like never before. We live on chemical medicines, wash our clothes, houses, hair and body with chemicals. We even eat chemicals. Those red tomatoes at the local grocery store are carriers of chemicals. So are our fruits and greens and even packaged foods. Pesticides, Insecticides, chemical manures and other additives have infected our food and we expose ourselves to developing serious diseases on account of the same. What is the quickest and the best solution? Grow your own food. And we will tell you how.
A kitchen garden can be developed in a small patch of soil in your backyard or front lawn. The seeds of the vegetable that you may want to sow can be sourced from the local seed market. For more information about the seed market, you can contact your local grocery store or vegetable vendor. After the first season, of course, you can have your own seeds from the fruits of the plants that you have grown. Note in this regard that the yield of the seed may differ from vendor to vendor.
Ask your gardener about any specific requirements of the plant. For example, the local seed in the market may be carrying infections or may be prone to a certain crop disease. You can obtain such information over the internet as well.
After the seeds have been obtained and the required information has been sourced, the next step is to prepare the soil. This can generally be done by ploughing the land. This simply refers to the process of shifting the lower layers of the soil to the top which carry more nutrients than the surface layer. Manure additives are added at this stage to make the soil more fertile and cultivable. These manure additives can be animal excreta or vegetable compost which can be produced at home or maybe bought at the local market.
After the first shoots have come out, most plants require weeding. This refers to the uprooting of unwanted plants around the area of growth of the main crop which compete with the main crop for soil nutrients and water. These are generally wild grasses which have to be frequently eliminated.
Regular watering of the plant is essential for most fruit and vegetable crops. Make sure that the plant is receiving enough water to compose its food.
One also needs to take care to trim out the bad branches and leafs of the plant if it gets diseased or dries. The disease of this part of the plant, if not eliminated, can spread to the rest of the plant within a few days and will spoil the entire plant.
The fruits, once they develop, should be given time to ripen on the plant itself, instead of using artificial methods of ripening them. The entire exercise of growing your own plant will be futile if you resort to chemical enhancements at the fag end of this period. Once it is ripe, relish the fruit of your chemical-free-garden.
-Lin
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