Gardening Tips, Techniques, and Unique Ideas for Beginners

Gardening Tips, Techniques, and Unique Ideas for Beginners Introduction: The world has changed a lot these days and everyone wants to grow their own fresh vegetables, flowers, and herbs. This can be done in backyard or balcony or indoors. Many housewives are preferring terrace gardening it gives them fresh produce and stress busting experience. For better understanding of home gardening, container gardening, organic gardening, urban gardening, polyhouse gardening, hydroponic gardening, aquaponics gardening, terrace gardening, balcony gardening, one must be aware of basic steps of gardening. Here we will go through the how to design your garden for growing vegetables, fruits or herbs and flowers. If you are planning to grow plants from seed, you must be aware of Seed Germination Process. If you plan to grow plants from cuttings, you must be aware of how to choose healthy cuttings. However, you should also understand that you cannot grow all plants completely either from seed or cuttings. The process is different for winter gardening and summer gardening in India (of course in other parts of world as well). Let's get into the details of home gardening tips, small vegetable gardening tips, and unique vegetable garden ideas for beginners.

You should be aware of a typical plant lifecycle which include planting seeds, seed germination or sprouting, preparation of soil, Adding compost to soil, transplantation, plant care (such as pruning/stalking, controlling plant pests and diseases), flowering, fruiting and harvesting. However, growing plants in hydroponic system is different from growing plants on the ground. You can grow vegetables in hydroponics without soil, you

can grow some fruits such as Strawberry in Hydroponics, you can also grow herbs in hydroponics. Recent trend is growing vegetables in pots, growing vegetables on terrace, and people are also inclined to kitchen gardening ideas. Apart from this, you must be aware of How to Protect your Garden from Rats, Mice and Rodents. We also recommend you to know How to Build a Fence for your Garden.

As you know making vermicompost at home is very easy process in which you can utilize kitchen waste to input to Vermiculture process because of Vermiculture advantages for Organic Gardening. By using this vermicompost, you can grow vegetables in home garden. If you plan to grow vegetables in containers, or plan to grow vegetables on raised beds, or grow vegetables in apartment balconies, you should select a suitable pot or container with well drainage. Select best quality vegetable seeds for your home garden, you can easily find out fake seeds by soaking them in the water for 24 hours. The seeds which are floating are fake ones and you can remove them. Some plants may require re-potting for better growth. You can also grow vegetables and small rooted plants like herbs in aquaponics. Aquaponics is nothing but growing plants and fishes together. In case, if you are growing organic vegetables in pots or backyard, mostly you can use neem oil spray for controlling the any pests and diseases. You should always have a periodic check to see the dryness of plant basin, make sure you water them uniformly and try to maintain moisture. You can control moisture loss and weed control by adding any dry leaves or straw to the plant base. In a long run, this can decompose and work as a organic composting to your plants.

Every plant whether vegetables, or herbs, or flowers or fruits has different plant to plant spacing or seed spacing. For Example; Tomato Plant Spacing may differ from Mint Plant Spacing. You must know clearly plant spacing in cm or inches before you start seeding. Fertile soil is another important factor for growing healthy vegetables. You must follow some clever gardening tips and ideas to setup a home garden on your own.

The time for seed germination is different for each vegetables and herbs and other plants. For example Cucumber Seed Germination, Time, Temperature is different from Okra Seed Germination, Time, Temperature.

If you have small space, you can set up a vertical garden and you can learn here: Balcony Vertical Garden Ideas, Techniques, Tips. The vertical vegetable gardening is very easy to grow climbing vegetables. You should have creative gardening ideas to set up a home garden in smaller spaces like growing plants in hanging baskets or even in plastic bottles. Growing Gourds in vertical direction is an excellent option for vertical gardeners.

As part of initial gardening you can try growing guava in pots from seeds and cuttings, growing ginger from roots in pots, growing hydroponic lemongrass, growing turmeric in pots, growing microgreens in pots, , growing methi in pots on terrace, growing sweet potato on terrace. Well before this, you should be aware of best fertilizers for plants. You can also try making liquid fertilizers at home for garden plants and growing aloe vera in pots from cuttings.

You can try Container Organic Chilli Gardening, Organic Tomato Terrace Gardening, Hydroponic Organic Gardening, Growing Hydroponic Carrots. Instead of using pots, you can use decomposable bags for sowing seeds and later you can change them to bigger pots and plants. Never try to grow big trees in containers and try to grow small rooted plants in pots and containers. There are many exotic plants and fruits you can grow in containers or pots. The best example is Growing Dragon Fruit in Containers.

The easy herbs to grow for Organic Container Gardening are Mint, Coriander/Cilantro, Basil, Fenugreek leaves. You can also grow lots of spices such as black pepper, hot peppers, small cardamom, turmeric, and ginger.

My favourite tasks and what i am doing currently in my garden are: Growing Hydroponic Bitter Gourd, Growing Hydroponic Strawberry, Growing Tulsi in Pots, Growing Soilless Tomato, Preparing Soil for Vegetable Garden, Getting Rid of Ants in Vegetable Garden, Making Best Manures for Flowers, Preparing Best Manures for Flowers in the home garden.

You can also grow many vegetables and flowers in polyhouse garden. You can also set up a profitable plant nursery in polyhouse. You can grow and get more yields round the clock in controlled environment such as polyhouse and greenhouse. So try to grow capsicum in polyhouse and also try to grow green chillies, cut flowers and other herbs in polyhouse garden.