Planting vegetables in Your Home
Nov 30th, 2011 Posted in Garden | Comments Off
For most people gardening is not an easy activity to do, some attention, patience and extra care are the things that cannot be denied. Although many organic crops are sold in supermarkets, but most people think twice to make a purchase, because the price of organic vegetables is quite expensive compared to the usual vegetables, although a number of benefits of organic crops be a plus while the current crops with pesticides are already becoming obsolete because it is dangerous to the body.
That is why garden experts try to find practical solutions from a variety of constraints experienced by the city. Now you can garden with limited land by creating grid size of 2 to 6 meters boxes for the media that are usually called raised garden beds to grow vegetables. All you need is a box made from wood, plastic, or metal that is durable. Then the compost from waste plants, worms to fertilize soil, and clay that has a texture so that the hollow plant roots are able to breathe and can get the maximum amount of water absorption. Avoid the use of sand and clay, because the sand does not bind water so that water intake needed by plants is not absorbed well, while the clay is solid so that plant roots cannot breathe and the water buildup will occur on the roots that will affect plant growth. Avoid using pesticides because the use of pesticides can harm the body, which percolate through the root of pesticides that will pollute the ground water, so that it will harm the human body if swallowed. Another thing that is harmful from pesticides is that dangerous pests will be immune to certain pesticides and will increase pesticide resistance if done continuously. Natural enemies of pests are frogs. The use of pesticides will also kill the frogs and worms that are very useful for plants.




