KURAKAR TERRACE VEGITABLE GARDEN

KURAKAR TERRACE VEGETABLE GARDEN-2012

Gardening is a good hobby and excellent source of fresh vegetables for your home. With people shifting their homes from villa type to flats where you can have terrace garden. Flats when comes in our mind we think of lack space, small garden. But, we can also with proper planning can come with terrace garden or roof garden. Hanging pots helps in reducing as well as proper space utilization of trance garden. You can utilize hangings pots with small leafy vegetables which will look green as well as you can pick up in emergency requirements for your kitchen. You can grow mint, coriander leaf or spinach in the hanging pots which will enhance the beauty of terrace along with providing leafy vegetables when required by your kitchen. You need not throw away broken buckets or damaged pots; instead you can utilize them to your advantage. You can use these buckets or pots for small herbs like green chilly plants, hybrid beans, Tomatoes or any other vegetables which occupy less space. These vegetables are very essential for your everyday ingredient in your kitchen. You can pick fresh chilies, Tomatoes or beans from your roof garden. Having your own garden you are getting fresh, crispy and taste vegetables. Secondly, your whole household is involved in your garden gives self satisfaction. Children will get a habit of learning about plants and the ways to take care of them.

 Middle of your terrace you can have round plastic table with chairs. In the early morning you can have tea or coffee with your family. In idle time you can cut vegetables or help your kids' homework. You can have your laptop and work in open fresh air. Therefore, having your own roof garden will create a sense of self satisfaction, kids learn about gardening. Start your garden today and enjoy gardening.

Vegetable prices are soaring either due to "shortage of rains" or due to "excess rains." Being a health-conscious person, you are not sure whether the vegetables you buy s contain chemical residues. How grand it would be if you could pluck vegetables from your terrace and prepare the dishes! But few people can afford to have some space for a kitchen garden in their backyard. Think terrace. Terrace is still vacant and why don't you bring up your kitchen garden and get vegetables throughout the year? A 9" thick soil layer on the terrace is enough to support plants, provided adequate waterproofing has been done to the terrace. However, growing plants in pots has become more popular as it requires less soil.

                                 Prof. John Kurakar