What is Terrace & Kitchen Garden Farming?

The Terrace Garden (a.k.a. roof garden) is a small space in the home where green vegetables, fruits and flowers are grown on terraces, roofs and balconies. The terrace garden is gaining popularity in metro cities due to the need for greener environments and paucity of space. It’s quite a good idea to grow plants in the open rooftops in cities (except the summer season) as it serves an alternative space to grow a garden. What is a better way to use your terrace to grow nutritious food in a flexible manner?

A Kitchen Garden is an alternative place where you can produce vegetables and herbs. It is an inexpensive, handy and regular farming practice to develop fresh and nutritious vegetables. The kitchen garden has solved the problems of many families and continuously helping more families who have started a kitchen garden to meet the needs of green vegetables like palak, carrots, etc.

Demands of Terrace Garden and Kitchen Garden

Since the farmers have been using hybrid fertilizers and other chemicals to grow the vegetables and fruits faster, the quality of food is decreasing gradually. To consume quality food; many families have been started terrace and kitchen garden farming to cater to their daily needs. The daily need for organic food is being increased gradually but the production is being decreased and so, the prices for organic food are increasing. To meet the needs of daily organic green vegetables, the kitchen garden or terrace farming is a need of an hour. Join with Zeelco Farms and get your home rooftop, balcony and/or terrace a mini-farm.

Plants to Grow in Terrace Farming

Well, you can start planting something from your own kitchen that you use in daily cooking such as coriander, fenugreek, chili, tomato and cucumber. Once you get to know about the farming process and gain confidence, you can move onto other vegetables. Then after, you can also grow fruits like banana, pomegranate, etc. Zeelco farms are always ready to help in growing fruits and vegetables on your rooftop.

According to the survey, a person can grow around 4-5 vegetables per season and a single square meter of the terrace can produce 25 to 45 kg of vegetables in 12 months. The most important thing is that you do not need to have farming knowledge. You can start a terrace garden without a farming background. Enthusiasm and willingness are needed to start farming at home.

What should You Choose as a Container?

Well, in urban terrace farming, there are plenty of things you can use as containers. Some of them are plastic drums, grow bags, planters, Gamla and pot. You can easily grow plants in these containers. Once you become good at it, you can farm with complex techniques like planting in raised beds that deliver higher production than basic techniques. Soil plays an important role in kitchen gardening. The soil must be lightweight and nutritious to provide sufficient minerals to plants. Also, the soil shouldn’t get water-logged so, drainage is essential.

Crop Details

Under the net house, one can grow a variety of vegetables, fruits and other plants from which he/she can get higher profit. Here we have a list of vegetables, Zeelco Farms can help you grow and how much you can earn through it.

Benefits of Terrace Farming:

• Clean Air: In urban areas, air pollution is the main problem. As they are fewer trees in the cities, the quality of fresh air is decreasing. The kitchen garden will increase the quality of air and so, your family’s health will improve too.
• Healthy and Fresh Vegetables: Today, most of the farmers use harmful chemicals to grow vegetables and that why many people face a lot of health issues. While the vegetables and fruits through kitchen garden are 100% organic, healthy and fresh vegetables for your family.
• Brings You Closer to Nature: Terrace farming always brings you closer to nature and brings positivity in a family’s life.
• Temperature Control: Reduce the home temperature 6 to 8 degree down and so reduce the air conditioner cost. Exposed rooftops can increase the surface heat; farming on the rooftops can lower the overall temperature inside the home.
• Sustainable Food: Today, food is transported from a far distance and reach after 2-3 days from the production unit. While the food produced at terrace farming reaches your kitchen within an hour. You can have sustainable food that helps to improve your family’s health.
• Increase the amount of oxygen in the air and make the surrounding air clean and fresh
• Reduces the sound pollution and also reduce the heat absorption of home.

Are you excited and enthusiastic to start a kitchen gardening but do not have enough knowledge and technique to start it? Don’t worry, Zeelco Farms is always there to help you starting the terrace farm. To share your query regarding kitchen gardening; just share your requirements at info@zeelcofarms.com or simply call us today at +91 - 90669 06642.