Kitchen-Garden – Why make a kitchen garden? Steps to growing your own food.
Kitchen-Garden Steps to growing your own food.
A Kitchen-Garden is where herbs and vegetables are grown around the house for household use. Since early times a small plot near to the house has been used for growing a variety of vegetables according to the season. Local varieties such as spinach, brinjal,chilli, peas, pumpkins,ash gourd etc. are all grown in the kitchen garden.Here we provide information how to establish and manage kitchen gardens with minimum input for maximum output, and show how to produce varied and nutritious crops of herbs and vegetables for use in the kitchen.
Kitchen-Garden – Why make a vegetable garden? Having a home garden means having
1. A low-cost, healthy diet
2. Food all year long
3. A chance to make some money
Benefits of kitchen garden
For people to stay healthy it’s very important to have a healthy diet. A healthy diet means a balanced mix of rice, bread, pulses, vegetables, herbs, fruit etc. Vegetables are a very important part of a good diet as they contain various nutrients for many body functions. The vegetable garden will help your family to be better nourished and healthier.If we start a vegetable garden, we can grow, prepare and eat our own fruits and vegetables. For growing, energy and protection against disease, vegetables play an essential role. Vegetables are especially important for the young, and for pregnant and nursing women.
• to grow healthy, fresh vegetables yourself;
• to save the cost of buying vegetables and herbs;
• waste resources such as sweepings, kitchen scraps and dirty water can be recycled onto the garden;
• wasteland around the house can be made productive.
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