Grow your own food
By Anu
@arpita_onlinejob (508)
India
January 19, 2016 12:58am CST
I am into Organic Kitchen Gardening from past 8 years. I grow veggies at home and compost the kitchen waste. None of my kitchen waste leaves my home and so, does not land up in the landfills. I sweat a lot while gardening and it is an amazing, therapeutic indulgence!
Many of them must be wondering what can of topic is this. In todays world where every food is adulterated, our health is at risk. Just imagine what will be the condition if we keep eating such food. How will our kids grow stronger.
What is your one step towards going organic? Do you also grow your own veggies?
Try it out!
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15 responses
@allknowing (130066)
• India
19 Jan 16
I also compost my kitchen and other waste and use it for the garden as a whole. I do not have many vegetables but have several fruit trees.
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@arpita_onlinejob (508)
• India
20 Jan 16
@Always smiling , sounds great, I too have a few fruit plants back in my native but now in a big city I am growing in my balcony. hopefully I get a good piece of land where I can grow :)
@allknowing (130066)
• India
20 Jan 16
@arpita_onlinejob We gave up our glamour life so to say and shifted to a semi rural town just so that I could give vent to my gardening passion.
@softbabe44 (5816)
• Vancouver, Washington
19 Jan 16
It's a reasonable to look into.
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@arpita_onlinejob (508)
• India
20 Jan 16
@Peggy baker yes its reasonable as there are two benifits one being organic food and other is fun growing.
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@softbabe44 (5816)
• Vancouver, Washington
21 Jan 16
@arpita_onlinejob Yea could be lots of fun getting it done.
@arpita_onlinejob (508)
• India
20 Jan 16
@Morning Girl, tats nice, What do you generally grow. I grow more greens like coriander, lettuce, fenugreek, mint, dill and many more. I generally keep experimenting.
@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
20 Jan 16
I also love gardening and all our food waste goes in the compost. Just vegetables though, no meats.
It's winter here and we have about 2 1/2 feet of snow. I save it up in a 5 gallon bucket and when the buckets full, dump it on my compost. I also put any cardboard without ink in my compost because that attracts worms.
I also enjoy companion planting so I don't have to use pesticides.
I'm very excited about this years growing season, I'm hoping to have a road side vegetable stand in the fall.
I'll be ordering seeds tomorrow and will be ready to start them in Feb.
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@arpita_onlinejob (508)
• India
20 Jan 16
@whatshername sounds interesting. I am still exploring about companion planting. Through all my experiments I have found that garlic and onion if planted helps to keep away many insects.
@arpita_onlinejob (508)
• India
20 Jan 16
@sishy, Yeah good for me , definitely. Do you too grow plants at home?
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@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
20 Jan 16
@arpita_onlinejob My husband does - he has some chili plants and we also have lemon trees on our backyard.
@arpita_onlinejob (508)
• India
20 Jan 16
@willmah, thank you for the kind words. I was first skeptical about composting as to it will smell and where do i keep it as I have a small place. I first tried in a plastic bucket and failed . Then tried in an earthen pot and it didnt smell at all. I finally realises the smell of fully done compost at the end is divine.
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@wiLLmaH (8801)
• Singapore, Singapore
22 Jan 16
@arpita_onlinejob wow! thanks for sharing that.Btw, what do you mean by this " I finally realises the smell of fully done compost at the end is divine."?
@youless (112108)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Jan 16
Since I don't have a garden or balcony at my home, so I can't grow my own vegetables. Although I am quite interested in it, but I don't have the proper conditions to do so. Some time ago I bought small pots with some herbs. But they grow slowly and don't grow so much. It is not enough for me to cook anyway.
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@arpita_onlinejob (508)
• India
20 Jan 16
@youless I understand, But dont give up. When I started, I started off with flowers later slowly moved on to veggies. it was demotivating to see my plants die but I learnt and learnt in due course what to grow in what season.
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@arpita_onlinejob (508)
• India
20 Jan 16
@Sreekala, Its a good start with two pots. But for me space is never a constraint. I have created many handing pots to plant many plants but generally they r many greens in my balcony.
@arpita_onlinejob (508)
• India
20 Jan 16
@pahak627 yes leafy vegetables are easy and fast to grow. I wish you all the best.
@cherriefic (10400)
• Philippines
21 Jan 16
As much as I want to do my gardening, I don't have much space where I am right now.
@arpita_onlinejob (508)
• India
20 Jan 16
@Judy Story, Do post a pic once your hubby plants a garden I would love to see it :)
@LeaPea2417 (36438)
• Toccoa, Georgia
22 Jan 16
Yes, I like to garden and the more organic it is , the better.
@Kboy26 (143)
• Columbia, South Carolina
19 Feb 16
I am not a gardener, but would like to try it in the future. I think it is cool to grow your own food.
@Scindhia (1906)
• India
20 Jan 16
I'd love to grow my own vegetables, but there is no space. We live in an apartment and everything is shared space here. But my mother does what you say. She grows her own vegetables in our kitchen garden. It is definitely a great experience.
