Ideas to have a garden at home

Organic garden

There's nothing like grow your own vegetables. Fresh, organic. If you dare to have a garden at home, you will be able to enjoy a noble task while having control over the entire procedure, from which soil to use to the quality of the water and the selected seeds.

More and more people have a orchard at home in order to take advantage of the benefits of organic vegetables, free of chemicals and pesticides. On the other hand, the products go from the garden directly to the table, avoiding long transfers and their consequences. On the one hand, vegetables lose part of their nutrients during the time they travel while trucks and vehicles used for transportation produce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.

Ideas to have a garden at home

Undoubtedly, there are valid reasons to grow vegetables at home but if you do not have a large area there are viable alternatives that you can put into practice.

One option is place the cultures in glass jars which in turn can be hung on wooden slats on the walls so as not to take up space. Place it in a bright place, near a window. Another alternative is to create a vertical garden with pallets or any other element that you can recycle in order to have a surface on which different herbs and some vegetables such as lettuce can grow. Shoe organizers also work very well in these cases because you can fill each space with soil and thus cultivate in an organized way.

Garden in jars

Some vegetables do not require much space, so if you have a small balcony or a couple of meters of soil, take advantage and go for it. broccoli, carrot, tomatoes, spinach, or pepper.

There are people who cultivate their vegetables in window pots thus taking advantage of the airspace and the sun's rays. Window sills are ideal spaces for deep, wide pots to grow vegetables.

Vertical orchard

Collective cultivation

Lastly, there are some community gardens where neighbors get together to plant their crops or share a garden in a home. In this case, you can choose any crop you like to enrich your daily diet.


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  1.   trelly99 said

    Excellent! Thanks for sharing.

  2.   Josefina Gomez said

    Very good article.