Most people would think the terrace is their only option and too only if
the housing society is forgiving. Try this for an idea. Use your
windowsill to grow some vegetables. One of the biggest requirements to
grow fruits and veggies is sunlight, something the city is amply blessed
with. Patil has also cultivated a full-fledged kitchen garden at her
home in Dockyard. She adds, "At least, you are certain that they are not
growing along the railway tracks. Being able to smell fresh fruit and
vegetables is an added incentive. It's a rarity in cities these days.
Not to mention the asset home grown vegetables provide. We won't face
dearth of vegetables like we do today if each home takes the onus of
growing their own veggies to a partial extent."
Recycle and reuse
At the outset, you don't need to invest in fancy or earthen pots.
You can even make use of plastic bottles, buckets and bathtubs to
grow vegetables. Take a medium sized bathtub; fill it with soil and
home compost to grow cabbages, cauliflowers, capsicums, radish and
onions.
Make your own soil
The most important step in kitchen gardening is to make Amrut
Mitti (nutrient-rich soil), which has abundant and diverse microbial
life that support healthy plant growth. It is simple to prepare and the
results are extremely effective. "Start with what you have. There's no
need to buy earthworms or any other stuff. Simply convert your kitchen
waste into resource," says Patil. Keep sprinkling some red earth in the
pots from time to time.
Always mulch your soil
Keep it covered with a layer of dry crushed leaves or sugarcane
baggase. If the waste becomes too wet, add newspaper, dry leaves and
soil to cover it. This helps in reducing loss of water due to
evaporation. It insulates microbes and organisms in the soil from direct
heat and also provides food for them.
Add a dose of amrut jal
Add a dose of Amrut Jal every 15 days, after you have sown the
seed. Amrut Jal is essentially a liquid solution comprising cow urine,
fresh cow dung (available outside temples), organic black jaggery and
water. If organic black jaggery is unavailable, replace it with six ripe
bananas/jackfruits, or two glasses of plain sugarcane juice. » Mix
together ten literes of water, one litre of cow urine, one kg of fresh
cow dung and fifty grams of organic black jaggery. » Keep this solution
for three days. » Stir this solution twice or thrice a day — stir it
twelve times clock wise and anti-clock wise. » On the fourth day, the
concentrated solution is ready. » Mix one part of this concentrated
solution with ten parts of water and Amrut Jal is ready. Add a fistful
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