What Is a Kitchen Garden?
A kitchen garden can be any space big or small where you can grow your own food. In the urbanscapes owning a kitchen garden is a luxury owing to limited open spaces to grow plants. Although the Kitchen garden doesn't need to be huge to fulfil your needs for fresh and organic food, it can even be a kitchen window sill, your balcony, or your terrace. With modern urban farming techniques growing your own kitchen garden in the cities is much easier than ever!
Growing In Small Spaces
You can grow green veggies and herbs even in the smallest of spaces at home and get fresh and organic food from farm to table. Hydroponic farming empowers you to grow a multitude of veggies without soil and without having to compromise on space.
Portable Hydroponic Tabletop Kit
This Portable Hydroponic Kit allows you to grow Leafy greens and herbs like lettuce, bokchoy, spinach, mint, coriander, rosemary, basil, oregano and many more. The planter allows you to grow crops without any water circulating systems, just add nutrient-rich water and you are ready to grow. your favourite veggies!
Being lightweight and portable, you can place multiple such kits on your kitchen window to grow a variety of greens.
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2. Portable Hydroponic Micro Farm
This Setup allows you to grow a variety of different herbs and leafy greens in a tray. This setup also doesn't require any motor or pump, just add nutrient-rich water and you are ready to grow.
The Hydroponic Micro Farm Setup comes with 20 grow holes, giving you the freedom to grow your kitchen garden in small spaces!
Link: https://www.farmstorey.com/product-page/farm-storey-2-in-1-herb-and-seed-starter-setup
Growing In Large Space
If you have the luxury of a terrace or a backyard, there are multiple different methods you can adopt to grow your own veggies. You can go by the traditional farming method in soil, try vertical farming with Hydroponics and Aeroponics
Traditional Method
To Grow in a traditional method you can opt to go DIY to make the most of old buckets and tubs in your home. You can reuse old paint buckets, fruit crates, Plastic tubs, coffee mugs etc. to make your own kitchen garden. Drill multiple holes in the base of the containers, add some gravel in the bottom, and then add a potting mix of vermicompost/organic manure, coco peat and well-drained soil to it. This way you not only recycle but will also be getting a fresh supply of healthy greens and veggies.
Make sure you place your pots in an area that receives good sunlight.
2. Hydroponics
Hydroponic farming allows you to grow more in less space without soil. Plants are grown in nutrient-rich water that circulates through the pipes enriching the roots with the required nutrients. With hydroponics, you can grow 10 times more plants in less space with 90%less water!
3. Vertical Garden
Another way of vertical farming is by hanging pots vertically on a wall. This way you can not only get more healthy greens but also a decorative wall that will enhance your home!