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| Vegetables in an urban house's flower bed. |
Nothing is as satisfying as knowing that the food you are eating was grown by no other than yourself!!!
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Besides the food being organic, healthy, and delicious it also gives you this deep sense of responsibility.
Yes, the responsibility that I am in control of and have immensely contributed to what I cook and serve to my family for lunch, breakfast, or supper.
Many people have got enough pieces of open space in their urban yards that they are underutilizing or using for other nonproductive uses.
I will be giving you a good idea of how to make good use of those spaces by growing vegetables or setting up a small orchard
Below are pictures illustrating how to establish an urban garden
Make or buy wooden boxes of your desired sizes and shape.
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| Wooden planting boxes |
Start filling them up with all your kitchen and garden waste.
When the waste has decomposed and turned into compost you go to the next step.
The Next Step
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| Potatoes are grown in a planting box |
In these boxes fill the top with topsoil and grow compost depending on which crops do you want to grow.
I have given a good example of how you can grow potatoes in the above picture.
Once you have planted your crops of choice you can protect your crops from direct scorching sun, insects, and pests by installing the covering nets as shown in the picture below
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| Covering nets protects crops against pests |
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