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What is Vegetables?

Are vegetables important for human health?


What is Vegetable gardening?
Why Grow Vegetables?
1. Source of food
2. Family’s food needs
3. Source of
income
for the family
4. Source of food
nutrients
5. Outdoor exercise for the gardener
6. Learn profitable, farming, food
processing, farm management and other
7. Prevention of air pollution
8. Beautifies school
and
home
Different Types of Vegetable
Gardening
Vegetable gardening in the Philippines is classified to the purpose for
which the vegetables are grown and the methods used in producing,
marketing and utilizing the crops.
1. Home/Backyard Gardening
2. Market Gardening
3. Vegetable
Growing for
Processing
4. Vegetable Forcing
5. Vegetable
seed
production
Factors to Consider in Selecting the
site for planting Vegetable crops
1. Sunlight
2. Water &
drainage
3. Topography of
Land
4. Types of soil
5. Accessibility to
road transportation
6. Climatic
requirements

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