A Beginner's Guide To Starting An Organic Vegetable Garden

Описание: The thought of having your own blooming veggie patch is an enticing one. But how do you actually go about setting it up and nurturing it? In this episode of Rootmaps, Akshayakalpa Organic's Shashi Kumar walks us through the basics of setting up a raised bed and growing your own produce. He shares simple, practical steps on how to prepare soil, make organic manure, and choose the right vegetables to begin with. The end result is a small but sustainable space at home, a miniature of a real farm!

Chapters

00:00 Setting up a vegetable garden
05:05 Steps to build Raised Bed
07:36 Preparing soil for the crops
11:17 Sourcing the soil
12:46 Methods of Growing Crops
15:01 Different crops grown
17:15 Daily activities in the farm and tracking system
20:33 Companion cropping
27:08 Variety of Crops Cultivated
29:09 How to prepare manure
31:53 Jeevamrutha
32:48 Earthworms
33:48 Moringa
34:58 Trap crop
35:47 Normalising farming model
37:00 Setting up boundaries for raised bed
38:37 Sourcing seeds
40:36 Sunken bed
41:34 Tamarind
42:29 Work with nature
43:56 Grow for yourself
46:01 Lemon
47:17 How to handle slugs
48:57 Harvest and takeaways


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