Kitchen Gardens - a way to grow vegetables for home

Kitchen garden or home garden or nutrition garden is primarily intended for continuous supply of fresh vegetables for family use. A number of vegetables are grown in available land for getting a variety of vegetables. Family members do most of works. Area of garden, lay out, crops selected etc. depend on availability and nature of land. In rural area, land will not be a limiting factor and scientifically laid out garden can be established. In urban...

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Sword beans - Native seeds

Sword beans which belongs to a beans family. It is mainly cultivated as a grain crop. The seeds are highly nutritious. The seeds are highly rich in fibre content. Canavalia gladiata, the sword beans or scimitar bean, is a domesticated plant species in the legume family Fabaceae. It is used as a vegetable in interior central and south central India, though not commercially farmed. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The...

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Recharging Borewells

This is an article on Recharging Borewells. The ground water level is decreasing. When we recklessly draw water water from the ground which has limited rain water catchement sources, we need to think on how it can be compensated. Atleast to reduce the impact on ground water level, there is a need to revive the rain water harvesting catchments.      Here, let us discuss on how recharging borewells in the farm can help to increase...

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Preparation of Vermi composting

About Vermi Composting                   Vermi Composting  is the process converting wastes into compost by use of earthworms. Good Quality compost is produced in short period depending upon the number of earthworms. In other words 4-5 kg of wastes composted by 1000 earthworms (approximately 1 kg) in a day. The commonly used earthworms like Eudrillus sp. Perionyx sp., Eisenia sp, or any locally available surface feeding (epigeic) earthworms can be collected from the nearby soil and then used in...

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Millet Movemet

MILLET Movement With ground water level going down rapidly, there is an urgent need to revive them. There are few ways to sustain. There are few crops which requires less water and they are drought resistant. They can also be grown in rainfed irrigation.  Millets like foxtail millet, finger millet, kodo millet, little millet, porso millet, barnyard millet, pearl millet etc ... Which are grain based crops which can be grown.  The...

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Sweet potato grown from root slices

Finally succeeded in growing sprouts from the sweet potato cuttings. Failed in few attempts. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Method we followed to grow sweet potato sprouts: * Purchased sweet potato from the local farmer market nearby. * Made sweet potato into few pieces with nodes using knife. * Folded the sweet potato peices with wet gunny bag. * Left it until we saw little green sprout on the nodes. * After...

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Farm update February 2020

Farm update The prices of the vegetables including bottle gourd decreased. Few resources say it's due to coronavirus. Thus, no exports or imports. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Bottle gourd price decreased to 60 RS per bag. The arrival of bottle gourd to Retail vegetable market also increased. Would not able to sell a bag to 60 RS in local markets. Seed Saving This February saved Brinjal and Okra seeds. Extracting...

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Experience on supplying farm grown vegetables to local farmer market.

From the past 1 month, we have been supplying Bottle gourd. Don't know where to start from...! Would like to share our experience in supplying vegetables to local farmer market. We planted bottle gourd seeds on the end of October 2019. It started yeilding from January 2020. Here, we used organic (poultry manure) as well as chemical fertilizers (N:P:K). Thus, it is semi organic. The bottle gourd is harvested for every two days once. That is only one day intervel between the harvests. The price of bottle gourd were down. The farm gate price of...

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Sowing different seeds in the same row

Sown few Desi variety seeds in a small canal. Irrigation : drip pipe Manure: Didn't applied any manure. In the same place, before I sown bottle gourd and pumpkin seeds. The vines spread over and suppressed the weeds. The dried leaves became black compost. Cleaned the vines and sown the below seeds. Would not able to upload all images. Storage space error. Will correct the errors and update soon.... Please refer Facebook page htttp://facebook.com/abcdfarming/ Yellow...

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Must know Airlayering, a way for Afforestation

Airlayering is a procedure to grow the roots on a stem or branch of a particular plant or tree. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Tried Airlayering on henna plant. The pictures are listed below. •  Firstly, removed the outer bark of the henna plant using knife. •  Before removing, make sure the knife is clean. •  After that scratch untill you find the dark and centre of the branch. •  Then clean it...

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Solutions for slugs to avoid consuming sprouts

Solution for slugs Sown different types of native variety seeds in a single row. Sprouted well. But the slugs consumed the sprouts.  Searched solutions to eliminate the slugs from farm.  Tried sprinkling salt around the plants but in vain. Nearby neighbour was using snail kill, a chemical product to get rid of slugs.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Using a chemical product was not my aim. I tried...

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About Beema Bamboo

About Beema Bamboo • Beema Bamboo is a throneless variety. • The Bio mass and Rigidity is more compared to other Bamboo varieties. • The hallow in the middle of the Bamboo is less. • Yeild of the Beema Bamboo is nearly 50 tons from 4th year consecutively. • After 4th year you can harvest Beema bamboo every year. The yeild increases in consecutive days. • As it is a thornless variety, harvest made easy. Below is a image of Beema bamboo cut...

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