Dueep Jyot Singh - Victory Herbal Garden in Your Limited Space: Sustainable Gardening for Children/Beginners

Dueep Jyot Singh

Gardening Series

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I was just talking to one of my friends aboutgardening, because she was bemoaning the huge amounts of money shehad to pay for fresh vegetables and I asked her why she did notmake a garden of her own.

Her immediate answer was - she had no time.After that, she looked around and said she had absolutely no freespace. Especially for flowerpots, herb pots, and all that mess.

This book is not for all those people who gointo things with enthusiasm, and then one fine day decided thatthey do not like dirt under their fingernails. And so they abandonall their gardening efforts and decide to do something elseconstructive like let us say moan about high prices forvegetables.

This book is for all those who are interestedin a back to basics food revival where you are going to growhealthy food for you and your family. More and more people want toeat fresh, seasonal and locally grown foods.

Most of us are urbanites. Most of ourdwellings are high-rise apartments, where you are not going to findany sort of outside space. You may be living off a really busy,noisy, road and you think that no plant is going to grow there.

So not true. So if gardening is your game,and even if you have just limited space, use your ingenuity andcreativity and let us start this new campaign of growing your ownfood and growing healthy naturally.

In the beginning of the twentieth century,when England was hit by World War II and all the men went to war,women decided to roll up their sleeves and put food upon theirfamilys table, as well as feed a whole army! Yes, all the soldierswere fed with food grown by their womenfolk who had joined thewomans land Army.

It has now been proven that the Britishpublic never ate so well as when they were eating fresh grown foodfrom the victory Gardens. And then they forgot about these gardensand the gardening skills which they had learned from booklets,leaflets, and posters given to them by their government, the momentthey tasted victory.

Hyde Park was the largest victory garden inLondon. Today it has gone back to being lawns and flowerbeds. Atthat time, rooftops, wasteland, any free ground was turned into asmall patch, where food could be grown.

Remember many plants do not need much lightand space. So if you are using the excuse of my flat is so dark,and there is no light, just by some small baby herbs from themarket. Pot them in your own containers and watching them grow intohappy and healthy plants.

this weekend, and picked up myfavorite plant, growing wildly on the ground there it is asucculent creeper with magenta flowers which I could not find inthe nurseries in my town.

So when I came back, and began to look at allthe containers where I could pot the cuttings, I just found aleaking old plastic container. You can see the rough scissor marks,where I made it into a container, drilled a couple of holesunderneath, filled it up with gardening compost, planted mysucculents, watered them, and put them in the shade in a corner ofthe Terrace.

If your container has 4 corners, and hasholes from which the water can be drained, it can be used to plantanything. You may want to decorate it from outside, if you think itis too shabby.

Remember that you have taken upon yourselfthe responsibility of using minimal space. So just like theJapanese, you are going to seize even unconventional or unexpectedopportunities to cultivate your urban Eden and Oasis.

But then you are going to say, where are yougoing to get the fresh earth from? Mark this carefully you do notneed to have land on the ground, which we call gardens, roofterraces, and patios in order to garden. However, if your kitchenledge is sunny, there you are, you have won half of the game.

On the following page, herbs are being grownin a window box, but you do not even need a window box. Just a fewbasic techniques and you are going to find yourself with plenty offresh, nutritious ingredients all the year around and ready athand.

If you have some space, you can useold-fashioned fruit crates, buckets, wine boxes, and othercontainers.

Shop bought garden containers are going to becostly and more often than not, they are downright monotonous andboring. Also, why are you going to spend lots and lots of money onstylish containers, when you are more interested in savingmoney?

So just look around. If the container iswaterproof and is made of any material wood, metal, tin, clay,earthenware, you are going to use it.

My mother told me that she took porous clothbags, and put them under the tap. When she saw that water wascapable of draining through the cloth bags, she just picked up somebricks, and clinker for the lowest layer, and drainage, filled thebags with soil and planted all her lilies. There, she had analready made Lily garden in just about that much space it takes tostand a cloth bag.

But one has them foremergencies. that we do not remember that they are going to beexcellent containers for growing seedlings, mustard, and Cress.

After you have removed the cover of your can,you are going to turn it upside down, and make drainage holes inthe bottom of the tin with the help of a drill, or hammer andnails.

Clean the tin thoroughly, especially if ithas been used to store baked beans or anything with high saltcontent. The tin above had seasoned spinach, and that is why I amgoing to scrub it thoroughly and remove any traces of the labels orthe lid.

After you have made a few drainage holes, youare going to decorate the container a little. Try using stickybacked vinyl, by sticking it directly onto the can. You can alsouse a strong craft glue to stick fabric, paper, or even oilcloth tothe containers, smoothing it down as you go and then setting itaside to dry.