Wednesday, May 15, 2019
The cost of food always increasing, it is possible for us to grow our own food needs to reduce the cost of our needs. But what if our land in the yard is not big enough to grow food? The method is easy, the less the amount of land, especially the yard, you can still grow food, especially the vegetable garden. Here's how to make a vegetable garden in your home easily.
1.Vertical Vegetable Garden
Vertical gardens are gardens that are planted by stretching upwards. So you can do a vertical vegetable garden. Usually, vertical gardens are done on ornamental plants, but this type of garden can be applied to vegetable plants.
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Some vegetable plants that you can try to plant vertically are chili, tomatoes, Choy Sum, mustard greens, pakchoi, eggplant, onions, and lettuce. Here is how to make a simple vegetable garden in the yard in a vertical way.
Tools and materials
The tools and materials that you need to prepare to make a simple vegetable garden in your home vertical garden are:
Soil land
Compost
Plastic bottles (minerals, milk, and others)
Seed plant
Knife
Wire
Nail
Hammer
Step-By-Step
Vegetable garden in your home can be done vertically and will be explained in full below.
• Prepare tools and materials to make a simple vegetable garden in the yard
• Make a hole in the side of the plastic bottle using a bottle and on the other side you make a small hole for ventilation
• Put a plastic bottle with another bottle using a wire
• Make sure when you combine it not too much so that the condition of the place to plant is not heavy
• Next, you hang your vertical vegetable garden on the wall using nails. Then at the same time, you make a mixture of planting media, namely soil and compost 1: 1
• Then plant the vegetable seeds that you want to plant. Make sure you plant it upright and not too tight so that your plants can grow easily later.
• Flush your mini vertical vegetable garden when conditions are dry
2.Vegetable Gardens on the Roof
You can try the garden roof style for space vegetable garden if you are lack of space or land.
If you are sort of space or land but want to try to make a garden vegetable. Take note first, about the water flows, and how much sunlight your plants need and what types of plants are suited on the roof.
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The types of plants suitable on the roof are chili tomatoes, mint leaves, nuts, lettuce, spinach, and others. Here is how to make a simple vegetable garden in the yard using a method of planting on the roof side.
Tools and materials
• Pot
• Wood
• Nail
• Hammer
• Soil
• Compost
• Waterproof protection board
• Filter cloth
• Insulation
Steps
After you have prepared the tools and materials you can continue to the step of creating the media plant. Here's how to make a vegetable roof garden in your:
Step 1 (Pot)
• Prepare tools and materials to make a vegetable garden on the roof
• Make a mixture of soil planting media: compost (1: 1)
• Enter in the pot and plant the vegetable seeds that you will use
• Water the vegetable seeds every dry planting medium
Step 2 (box plant /wooden box/tub plant,etc)
• This step if you want to make your own tub using wood.
• You make 4 square containers using wood that you have prepared
• Then before inserting the planting media, you can make the constituent layer first, namely the base, insulation, filter cloth, planting media and finally the plant
• After that enter the soil planting medium: compost (1: 1)
• Add vegetable seeds to the planting medium that has been made
• Water the vegetable seeds every dry planting medium
3. Hydroponic Vegetable Garden
The hydroponic vegetable garden is a type of garden that makes water as a medium for planting. In hydroponic vegetable gardens, you need to set when the water flow for each plant, the condition of the planting place must be sterile, the amount of electricity used and the percentage of sunlight should be considered too.
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The way to plant a hydroponic vegetable garden is very beneficial because hydroponic crops produce fresh vegetables and you can pick them directly yourself. Some types of vegetable plants using hydroponic garden are lettuce, kale, spinach, lettuce romaine, and mustard greens. Here is how to make a simple home garden by hydroponics.
Tools and materials
• Hydroponic plant seeds
• Rockwool
• 1-liter plastic bottle
• Knife
• Enough water
Steps
The steps of making a hydroponic vegetable garden will be explained in full below.
• Prepare tools and materials for making hydroponic vegetable gardens
• Clean the 1-liter plastic bottle, then divide it into 2 parts using a knife
• Lubricate the part of the plastic bottle that has bottle mouth seedlings as ventilation for plants to taste
• Place the hem that has the mouth of the bottle cap upside down and places it on the other part
• Add hydroponic plant seeds while placing Rockwool
• Give water to the bottom of the plastic bottle to taste
• Store near a window or room that gets sunlight
• You can make more than one
That’s the things about how to make a simple vegetable garden in the yard, but the steps above are the simplest way to make a simple vegetable garden in our home. Hopefully, you can try it and make your own vegetable garden, don’t forget to tell me if you already create your garden…
Thus the information we can convey about how to make a simple vegetable garden in the yard of the house. Hopefully, all of you can invite your neighbors, family, and relatives to do their own cultivation. Good luck.
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