A college graduate named Indira of Sankarankovil city in Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu is growing several vegetables on the terrace of her house. Currently, she is cultivating spinach, white eggplant, tomato, coriander, mint, green chilli and rose plants in the upstairs garden. Spinach is one green leafy vegetable which can be easily grown with the help of the Sun and the appropriate amount of water. To balance her daily diet with spinach, Indira decided to grow this vegetable in her home.
While interacting with News18, Indira said that any type of lettuce can be harvested within 15 to 20 days of sowing. To grow spinach in a pot, you have to first prepare a soil mixture. It should contain 30 per cent of sand, 30 per cent of vermicompost and cow dung. The 40 per cent cocoa beet is also added to the mixture, she added.
The next step is to sow the seeds in the prepared soil mixture which is harvested within 15 days. You don’t need to add anything like fertiliser to this, you can harvest up to 5 times in the first soil mixture, added Indira. Once harvested, the soil should be mixed well and spinach can be cultivated again in the same soil mixture.
While explaining the requirements of the plants, she said the spinach should be watered daily for 15 days. Due to the inclusion of cocoa beet in the soil, the plant doesn’t require a high amount of water to grow. Indira is growing different types of lettuce like Ponnanganni lettuce and Dandy lettuce in her garden upstairs.
During the COVID-19 times, several people picked up gardening as a hobby and started to cultivate vegetables in their homes. One of them was Deepak Nakum of Rajkot. The teacher-turned-farmer resorted to terrace farming and also encouraged others to grow vegetables at home during the ongoing health crisis. He used the Hydroponic farming technique under which the soil was not used and it required only 10 per cent water. He also claimed that the production is three to four times more than that of normal soil-based farming.
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