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Home Garden, Market Garden

Home garden, market garden. Simply, means every home or house must have a garden, a backyard or front yard garden. And every garden is a market -- market for fresh and cheap naturally grown vegetables. This is my humble proposal and recommendation to address sustainable nutrition issues as well as household economics.

You know, everybody can be a gardener -- a successful gardener. Everyone can eventually earn few centavos from gardening. Look, in one of my project sites where we train rural communities about this, a 15-year old dalagita with her younger sisters cultivates a garden about 3 meters by 4 meters in size. She grow 4 hills of ampalaya, 4 hills of eggplant, 2 hills tomatoes, sitaw, okra among others. The plants are well arranged in such a way that they don't interfere each others growth. There are also additional 2 box-type garden plots which are planted with petsay. Believe me they were able to earn about 460 pesos a week when she started harvesting from her garden. Other households also cultivate the same concept of garden -- a la bahay kubo and they also earn 60-80 a day. The gardens does not only provide them opportunity to earn but also provide them fresh and safe vegetables.

Do you know that in a thousand square meter of land suitable for garden, you can be able to plant about 10 thousand hills of pechay? Suppose each pechay sells for 1 peso then you earn 10,000 or so! A pechay can be harvested  about 30-34 days from planting. Imagine that.

It is not difficult to grow garden vegetables. You can plant from left over containers of ice cream, milks and biscuits. Or from noodle soup Styrofoam. You can also plant in used plastic grocery bags or even old rice sacks or cement bags. What is important you can contain appropriate amount of soils for your plants.

 

 

 

Coming up to this blog. How to make a simple backyard garden and how to make home-made natural fertilizers and pest-a-side... or you can email me...

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