A Vegetable Garden or Patch is a garden that exists to grow vegetables and other plants useful for human consumption, in contrast to a Flower Garden that exists for Aesthetic purposes. It is a small-scale form of vegetable growing.
With worsening economic conditions and increased interest in organic and sustainable living, many people are turning to vegetable gardening as a supplement to their family's diet. Food grown in the back yard consumes little if any fuel for shipping or maintenance, and the grower can be sure of what exactly was used to grow it. Organic Horticulture or organic gardening, has become increasingly popular for the modern home gardener.
The kitchen garden has a year-round visual appeal and can incorporate permanent perennials. The kitchen garden may serve as the central feature of an ornamental, all-season Landscape area. It is a source of herbs, vegetables and fruits but it is often also a structured garden space.
Growing kitchen vegetables has been a craze for me lately. Last year, we had so much tomatoes that we did not buy them from the market for good six months. We had only four plants. It's true what they say: The best-tasting tomato is always the one you grow yourself.
This Patch has again three Tomatoe plants and plenty of green Onions. Besides it has green Black Grams, two potato plants. Harvinder just picked a few pieces of Black Grams and sowed them. It is very exciting to see green gram plants emerging along with their fruits. All of us in the family are looking forward to enjoy eating Rice Pulao full of green grams with.
Will it not be yummy?
This Patch has also one Pea plant brought by Jania from her School.
It is amazingly growing fast and flowering from original 2" to 2 ft. Jania is having Bio practicals at home.
This is very favorite patch for Jania as it has Strawberries. Last year, she had a full bowl of Strawberries everyday for a couple of months during harvesting season. The berries are quiet soft & sweet and just melt in your mouth. Rest of the space is occupied by Fenugreek (Methi). Harvinder used her 'Methraas' from her kitchen store and sprinkled it in this patch. They are now grown into a foot long plants full of fragranted soft leaves which are good for diabetese.
New Patch with Tomato and Bell Pepper (green & red) and Chillee Plants
This Patch has Squash, Cucumber, Basil and Corn plants
This Patch has Squash, Egg Plants, Water Melon, Cantaloupes, and Corn
Getting encouraged, We have planted nine more Tomato plants this year. We have also enhanced more cultivaiable areas shown above by adding three more Vege Patches on Eastern side. Incidentally these patches get 6-8 hours of Sun which is good for Vegetable produce. The new Patches are proving to be more productive.
Besides these Tomato plants, we have also planted 7 Corn plants, 3 Basil plants, 8 Bell Pepper plants, 4 Egg Plants, 10 Squesh Plants, three Water Melon Plants, 2 Cantaloupe Plants and three Cucumber Plants.
Corn
Cucumber
Bell Pepper
Squash
Egg Plant
Tomato
Mint
The plants are like kids and we have to take care of them really well, save them from insects, fertilize them, irrigate them very regularly on time and make sure the drainage of excess water is being effective.
Let's hope we eat our home grown organic vegetables while simultaneously educating our grand kids the art of Kitchen garden. The entire 7 Corn plants have been planted by Shiv. So inspite of his tight office schedule, Shiv does visit the Veg patches every morning when in town to watch the growth of his Corns.
OUR FRUITS
Some of the fruit tree are shown below. Our Cherry had bumper crop this year but the black fly deserted the entire crop. I would be wiser to treat it next time.
"Abb Pachhtaaye kiya hot hai,
Jab Chiriya Chug gai Khet"
Meaning it is useless to repent now when the fruits have already been eaten away by the birds. The black birds in hundreds came and enjoyed the fruits, but that was last year, this time black flies diseased it.
Enjoy the fruits as they look today:
Nectarine
Mulberry
Pomegranate
One of the twenty Lavender Plants
The Fruit season starts with Cherry, Mulberry, Apricot, Nectrine, Peach, Almonds, Pear, Asian Pear and parsiman
In the end.
Let's all enjoy! Our friends and readers of this blog living nearby are welcomed to pick the fruit of their choice with free compliments from Kapoor family.
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