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Which plants to grow in your kitchen garden? 🌱
The #1 question everyone worries about is what to start with in the garden? Should it be vegetables 🥗, flowers 💐 or perennial plants 🌳? Well, the choice is really up to you. I wanted to try growing my own vegetables and slowly am starting to grow some flowers to liven up the spaces. So […]
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The Backyard Kitchen Garden – Part 2
This is a series of posts I’m writing as I grow a food forest in my backyard. You can read the first part of the backyard kitchen garden here.Starting a Backyard Forest in my Apartment – Part 1 It’s been a week since I started work on our apartment kitchen garden and we’re already starting […]
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Starting a Backyard Forest in my Apartment Complex
While I’ve been growing vegetables for an year in the house, there’s been an itch to really grow the operations. So, as I wait for the opportunity to start ‘real’ farming, I’ve taken to setting up a kitchen garden in my apartment complex! I like calling it a backyard forest 🙂 It all started with […]
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What is Zero Budget Natural Farming?
ZBNF or Zero budget natural farming is an all natural way to grow crops without chemical pesticides, fertilisers, and requires no additional money for other inputs. This was popularised by Subhash Palekar in India. ZBNF is very similar to the natural farming concepts of Masanobu Fukuoka who in his book, the one straw revolution, talked […]
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Subhash Palekar’s website archive
While I was going through the web, I found a ton of information on zero budget natural farming, or zero budget spiritual farming, which was conceptualised and popularised by Padma Shri Subhash Palekar. He has a wealth of insight into this farming method and had written some amazing content on his website. As of today, […]
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How I water my plants when I’m away
Leaving your plants when you have to travel for a while can be heart wrenching for true green lovers. While plants survive even summers for a couple of days without water; any longer can lead to deterioration in health. Jump to The old Bottle-In-The-Pot Trick (Recommended for 1-3 days watering)The Rope Trick (Recommended for 1-3 […]
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The Comprehensive Indian Vegetable Calendar
Want to find which vegetables grow the best in which months, we outline the months in North and South India along with the vegetables you can sow to get the best yields!
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Home-made nutrients for your hydroponic forest!
When I got started with hydroponics, the thing that kept irking me most was the fact that while I was growing my own vegetables, I still had to rely on storebought nutrients for my plants to grow. We all know the drill – buy the A, B type nutrients, mix them with water and make […]
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