Vegetables can be grown in our home garden even in a small pots also.
Started planting few used in our kitchen for our day to day use. Tomato is the one we'll be in need for most of our recipes.
1. Tomatoes (தக்காளி)
Tomatoes seeds can be collected from farmers or from agriculture university near by your place. Based on your need or taste you can buy native tomato seeds or hybrid one. Generally native tomato plants are more resistance towards insects and pests.
In the previous post we have seen how to make good soil for plantation. Next step after filling the soil in the pot, make a small hole for 1 cm depth (we can use our pen), put a seed inside and cover it with the soil. Leave some space and do the same for other seeds as well. Initially I kept around 10 seeds. Finally once the plant grown properly for an month, we can leave 1 or 2 plants maximum in the pot with 1 feet diameter. If we do so this plants will get proper quantity of water, sunlight and organic fertilizer from the soil.
Two weeks later:
Seedlings started emerging out.
After three weeks:
Growth around 5 cm height.
After an month:
Growth seen around 10 cm height. Plant is healthy too. Now we can keep 1 or 2 plants and remove the other plants to plant in different pot based on your need.
Maintenance:
Need enough sunlight at least an hour per day if you are keeping in the balcony.
Sprinkle water daily in the morning. Excess water will come out and stored in the base plate which can be cleared once in 2 to 3 days.
Vegetable waste, egg shells, tea powder after preparing tea can be buried inside the soil so that it these will get decompose and will get organic fertilizer with zero cost.
If any leaves found infected can be plucked out.
Fifth week:
It's grown around 15 cm and looks healthy.
For further update please watch this space.
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