How to grow vegetables on your terrace and balcony

Growing vegetables on your terrace or balcony is now quite easy thanks to the mushrooming of nurseries. While it’s good to grow organic veggies at home, one can also make compost at home with the kitchen waste and use it for the plants. Here’s a look at how you can get a green veggie garden at home: 

What you need to do
The first thing you need to do when you decide to get a terrace or balcony garden is to figure out which veggies you want to grow. Chillies, tomatoes, eggplant and greens are some of the simple veggies you can grow and these are used most often in cooking. 

What you need to buy
Head to a nursery and buy some medium-sized flower pots (depends on the space you have) with three or four holes at the bottom for drainage. Get organic manure, soil, plant pseudomonas, neem powder, coir pith, vegetable seeds, and panchagavya as well. 

How to prepare the pot for planting
Take a pot and place stones at the bottom. The soil mixture needs to be one part coir pith, soil and manure. To this, add a few tablespoons of neem mixture and plant pseudomonas. Mix well together and put it over the stones in the pot. Plant a few seeds of one plant. Water the soil. The plant is ready. Now just remember to water it every day!
Once a week, dilute 30 ml of panchagavya in one litre water and spray this on the plants.

How to prepare compost
Compost pots are available in nurseries, but you can buy a regular bucket and do it as well. Take a bucket and make a few holes at the bottom. First add the wet waste (all veggie peels but no onion peels or cooked food) from the kitchen, then put soil on top. Over this, you can put dry manure and cover with a paper. Turn the compost every day.