Projecting the Home Garden

WHAT IS A HOUSEHOLD AND WHAT ARE YOUR ADVANTAGES?

The home garden is the cultivation of food for household consumption and is achieved in small spaces that can be used very efficiently. The advantages offered are the availability of healthy and nutritious food and savings when producing them on the farm itself. Today we will talk about the advantages of a home garden.

The orchard must be programmed with a Cultivation Plan that includes practices such as crop rotation, intercropping, step planting and associated crops.

Crop rotation consists of not planting crops of the same family in the same place over and over again. This practice decreases the incidence of pests and diseases. An example of crops from the same family are: tomato, potato, chili and eggplant that are all solanaceous.

They can be rotated with legumes such as beans and peas, or with crucifers such as cabbage or cabbage and cucurbits such as ahuyama or zapallo. Also, try to rotate leafy vegetables with root or fruit vegetables. This lowers the populations of pests as the supply of food to them is suspended for a time.

Intercropping consists of alternating rows of two or more species in order to make better use of space, control pests and diseases by not providing monocultures, controlling weeds by covering the soil, among others.

The stepped planting consists of having crops of different ages to ensure a constant supply of their crops.

The associated crops are the sowing of two or more crops that help each other. The most common example is that of the vine bean with corn in which the corn cane serves as a productive support for the bean.

The home garden is not just vegetables. Aromatic, medicinal and condimentary plants are also sown that serve not only for human consumption but also because of their allelopathic effects in the orchard, driving away plagues and avoiding diseases.http: //www.fincaycampo.com/2015/02/las-ventajas-de -a-kitchen-garden /

NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF HAVING A HOME GARDEN.

Although the garden is for many a very pleasant activity, it also has its cons.

1. Time
Caring for an orchard requires a lot of dedication. Every day we have to spend a bit of our time: removing weeds, controlling pests, watering and many other tasks are important depending on the crops we have.

2. Pests
Yes, the plants are very nice: But they always attract bugs! Of course, insects are fundamental in the garden. In fact, they are the ones most responsible for the pollination necessary for the fruits to appear. But not all of them are pleasant to us. A butterfly is not the same as a bee, is not it? Https: //www.vix.com/es/imj/hogar/147755/los-pros-y-contras-de-tener-una-huerta-en-casa