Backyard Kitchen Gardening

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Group # 06
 Kitchen garden
🞂 This is the perfect time of year to think about starting a home
kitchen garden
🞂 Kitchen garden is a space separate from the rest of the residential
garden
🞂 Used for growing edible plants often some medicinal plants
🞂 Private land attached to or very close to the dwelling
🞂 First known use of kitchen garden in 1580
How to setup a kitchen garden at home ?
🞂 Set up kitchen garden at home in the right location
🞂 Select nutrient rich soil
🞂 Choose the right planters or raised beds
🞂 Start your kitchen garden with micro greens
🞂 Expand your garden with vegetables
🞂 How to water ?
🞂 How to make compost ?
🞂 Harvest the produce
🞂 Enjoy the benefits of kitchen farming
Maintaining the Garden
🞂 Water consistently : installing a drip irrigation system connected to
an automatic timer is your best bet
🞂 Fertilize regularly : plants should be fed with a nitrogen fertilizer at
least every 4 to 6 weeks
🞂 Mulch : A 2 to 3 inch layer of compost applied over the roots of plant
🞂 Eliminate weeds : pull weeds by hand and cultivate the soil
frequently to keep them to a minimum
🞂 Harvest often
🞂 Control insects : Always keep an eye open for an insect damage
Site Selection
🞂 Backyard of house
🞂 Preferably open areas with plenty of sunlight near the water
source
🞂 Size & shape
🞂 Depends on
🞂 Availability of land
🞂 Number of persons in the family
🞂 Spare time availabe for its care
🞂 Nearly five cents of land is sufficient
🞂 A rectangular garden is preffered thzn square plot
Reasons to start a garden

🞂 Gardening can make a great hobby

🞂 Global food prices are on the rise
🞂 Growing your own food helps the environment
🞂 Nutrition
🞂 Great source of exercise
 Gardening for a hobby
🞂 Gardening is a perfect hobby to do so
🞂 It is an activity you can share with your spouse , kids or
friends
🞂 Great activity to get you of the house plus it is a productive
way to spend precious free time
Global Food Prices Are On The Rise

🞂 There are many factors that will shape the upcoming months
concerning of food prices
🞂 The current crops and how they are affected by the weather,
events that effect all prices in the middle east & north africa
🞂 With all these issues the decline will probably not turn into a
trend
🞂 If you grow some of your food, your pocket book wont be
hurting quite as much.
 Helping the Environment

🞂 The biggest way you can help the environment when gardening is by having
a green garden
🞂 Compost is made up of recycled organic kitchen and yard scraps which
makes your plant stronger by stimulating beneficial soil organism
🞂 When you recycle this type of waste you will reduce the amount of energy
used to send the waste to the dump
🞂 Gardeners also recycle rain water to use in the garden
🞂 Growing your own food helps the environment is by reducing the the
amount of fossil fuel & excess packaging used to transport food to your
local stores
Nutrition

🞂 When you grow your own food , you get the freshest items
possible
🞂 You dont have to worry about your own food safety
🞂 You control the type and amount of pesticides and fertilizers
you use
🞂 You dont worry about added additives and preservatives
🞂 Growing your own food health for your body and your piece
of mind
Exercise
🞂 Studies clain that in general you burn up to 300 cal for women
& 400 cal for men/hour with moderately strenuous gardening
activity
🞂 Gardening involves walking, stretching, lifting and bending
🞂 Can help keep away problem and provide other benefits
Implements use in kitchen garden
🞂 When you decide to start a kitchen garden you need a few
basic supplies to get started
🞂 Spade
🞂 Pick axe
🞂 Hoe
🞂 Hand sprayer
🞂 Rode can
🞂 Seeds
🞂 Starter plant
🞂 Fertilizer , pest control
Advantages

🞂 Supply fresh fruits and vegies high in nutritive value

🞂 Foods free from toxic chemicals
🞂 Help to save expenditure on purchase of vegetables
🞂 Foods taste better than those purchased from market
🞂 Effective utilization of kitchen waste water & materials
🞂 Exercise to the body and mind
Conclusion

🞂 Vegetable gardening can bring many benefits in your life

🞂 Besides being a great hobby it can help you be more
environmently consistence & makes it easier to eat healthier
🞂 I hope with this presentation i have debunked many of the
misconceptions that are out there bout vegetable gardening.