Home gardening in a limited space:
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| Home Gardening |
Home gardening may be anything, depending upon the individual's interest like growing vegetables, flower plants, lawns, fashion plants, indoor plants, etc. If there is a shortage of space needed to carry out gardening work of your choice, and the available area is not supporting all of them, then here are some ways of achieving it.
If your house is built as per the construction code, then you can fully utilize your terrace for growing plants in bags or in containers. It is also said rooftop gardening. Soil, compost, sand, or coir peat, were mixed in a required proportion before placing them in the containers or bags. All the essential nutrients will be added to the plants at regular intervals to achieve healthy growth of the plant.
1. Terrace gardening:
If your house is built as per the construction code, then you can fully utilize your terrace for growing plants in bags or in containers. It is also said rooftop gardening. Soil, compost, sand, or coir peat, were mixed in a required proportion before placing them in the containers or bags. All the essential nutrients will be added to the plants at regular intervals to achieve healthy growth of the plant.
Make a connection for your overhead tank separately to tap the water for the terrace gardening. Even you can add a drip irrigation system on a smaller scale so that you can save water and time.
It is nothing but growing plants in a vertical space in different types of plant holders. The shape and the arrangement of the plant holder can be anything of your creativity as shown in Fig. Mostly pyramid shapes are preferred because all the plant gets sufficient sunlight and nutrient for their growth.
2. Vertical gardening:
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| Vertical gardening. |
It is nothing but growing plants in a vertical space in different types of plant holders. The shape and the arrangement of the plant holder can be anything of your creativity as shown in Fig. Mostly pyramid shapes are preferred because all the plant gets sufficient sunlight and nutrient for their growth.
If you provide vertical space for the indoor plants, they give you an aesthetic look & help in building more positive energy in the home.
This is the soil-free method of gardening, where the nutrient is added to the water and supplied to the plant root. Sometimes, the plant may be supported by gravel, perlite, rock wool, clay pellets, etc.
3. Hydroponic gardening:
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| Hydroponic system |
This is the soil-free method of gardening, where the nutrient is added to the water and supplied to the plant root. Sometimes, the plant may be supported by gravel, perlite, rock wool, clay pellets, etc.
In the indoors or in the outdoors you can set up such a system, which gives 30% more production in the same given area of soil gardening. When the nutrient level gets exhausted in the water it is replenished by recycling water with fresh plant food.
4. Aquaponic gardening:
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| Aquaponic system. |
This is the extension of hydroponics, where aquaculture is added to the system. The water from the fish tank is recycled for the plant as it contains fish excreta, which is the best nutrient for the plant's growth. From this method, you can grow both the plant and the fish without any wastage.
5. Container gardening:
This is one of the common methods where instead of using the ground area, you can grow plants in any materials like pots, buckets, barrels, bags, etc. You can place them wherever you want such as on the balcony, canopy, nearer to the window openings, pathway, etc. But while placing them you have to check for the sunlight availability for outdoor plants.
All these five methods occupy limited space & help you to grow fresh food or flowers as per your choice.
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