You can grow vegetables on your backyard especially leafy. It is simple, so long as you have the interest and dedication to do it says an agriculturist experts. You can grow vegetables in backyards using wooden or bamboo boxes instead of pots. For root veggies, like carrots and radish, the depth of the boxes should be a foot to give more room for the roots to grow. For leafy, like petchay, lettuce, mustard and others, the depth of the boxes should be only half a foot.

More Yield

According to agriculturist you can expect more yield by following these instruction:

Watering plants. Always water after fertilizer application. So water plants in the daytime where there is sunlight. Use Triple 14, a complete fertilizer which has the three required food elements of the plants which are nitrogen, potash and phosphorus.
Garden shed plan. Your garden shed should be built in such a way that its roof is movable. The roof stays to protect your vegetable when the rain comes and when the day is fine there is a good sunlight.
Canal garden. Canals should be made around the garden shed so water would not be stagnant inside it.
Water vegetables. Water your veggies especially the leafy daily; but for other vegetables, water them only when the soil is parched.

Natural pest control

How to control pest

By practicing natural control against pests and disease, a gardener or farmer would be saving a lot in his production input aside from avoiding the ill effects of synthetic insecticides. According to the Bureau of Plant & Industry the following natural ways can be done to control pests:

Vegetable spray. Spray your vegetable with a soap-water mixture twice a week. Spraying should be done early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Never spray at noontime when the sun is too intense; water on the leaves will magnify the heat and will leave brown spots on the leaves.
Worms in vegetables. Once you spot a worm or two or any insect in your vegetables, do not hesitate to immediately kill them off with your hand. Manual control is more effective when the worms and other pests are still few in numbers.
Insects pests. When insect pest are already present in vegetables, you cut into pieces a tobacco stem, brewed and mixed it with water. It can be a good spray to your plant. This is effective on tomatoes, eggplant and pepper.
Pepper spray remedy. Choose common red pepper since it has its own substance that prevent control insect pests. The flowering plant, the common marigold locally called "Amarillo," does wonders in protecting the vegetables from pests. It has it's own inherent ability to prevent pests from attacking vegetables like tomatoes, bell paper and eggplant.

Natural controls against pests and diseases in plants are safe and environmental-friendly. Do use them instead of the expensive commercial pesticides and fungicides which are poisonous when not properly handled.

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Women's Today, Gardening

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