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Container vegetable gardening

Many people love to keep have garden in their backyard. Gardening can keep you occupied in your favorite pastime and gives immense satisfaction in tending both flowering and vegetable plants. Interestingly, one can grow his or her own vegetables organically such as tomato, green chilly, cucumber, and brinjal to name a few, in the backyard garden. However, with many homes or apartments are lacking enough space let alone having own backyard. With ever increasing demand for space in urban area, having space for backyard has become a luxury!  However, those wish to have their own garden sans backyard, one can make use of container gardening.

Fortunately, container vegetable gardening helps you to overcome space problem in cities (1), for example. Nonetheless, the basic rules to grow flower or vegetable plants remain the same whether you grow them in your backyard or in your indoor garden. You need to feel your plants with water, manure, and ample sunlight!

Interestingly, container vegetable gardening can regularly supply fresh and organically grown vegetables to your kitchen . Indeed, bit of creative imagination and ingenuity can make you a successful container vegetable gardener!

Importance of Soil and manure

Soil plays an important role in holding the plant and supplying nutrients to the plant (2).  Due to availability of restricted space in a container, you need to take regular care of soil.  When you are going for container vegetable gardening, it is ideal to use synthetic soil. Further, the natural soil may get clogged and the plants may not grow well.  Put manure to the soil once or twice weekly, so the plant has adequate nutrients for its growth.  Moreover, manure plays an important role in keeping your plants healthy since the plant will deplete the soil, natural or synthetic, of its vitamins and minerals quickly.

Interestingly, you could use the compost that may be created from the very own kitchen such as vegetable peels and other biodegradable waste, applied teas dust, powdered egg shells, to name a few.  Perhaps, with container vegetable gardening at every home, we can reduce the burden on city’s waste management system and go organic at every home!

In addition, it is better to remove or recycle the old soil and put new soil once a quarter or less.

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