Limited Growing Area Problem

[safi310]

Hi,
I wanted to know an effective technique or growing method so that I could grow various vegetables in a limited space.
Right now I have ready seedlings of Iceberg, cabbage and Brussels sprouts. The only problem is that I don't have much space to plant all of them. I am aiming that if i could plant them with less spacing or close enough and yet able to get yield. Please let me know how can I make this possible. One idea that I have right now is to fill that little space with a lot of manure so that soil beneath could become soft and plant could easily scatter its root system.

Please let me know about your Ideas too.

[M Farooq]

For more precise and useful replies from members you should post the (1) available area and (2) hours of sunlight exposure. Manure is good but over-usage will be bad.

regards.

[safi310]

It gets around 6 to 7 hours of direct sunlight. And the area is around (4.5ft x 6ft). I hope this might help.

[safi310]

It gets around 6 to 7 hours of direct sunlight. And the area is around (4.5ft x 6ft). I hope this might help.

[rafique]

It gets around 6 to 7 hours of direct sunlight. And the area is around (4.5ft x 6ft). I hope this might help.

google with the key words of square foot gardening .
You will find number of easy solutions for vegetable gardening in limited space.

[safi310]

Thanks

[newton]

Hi

There is an old saying "necessity is the mother of all invention"

Here are some examples of vegetable cultivation where water or land is a scares resource and the ways found to be the best to cultivate food right next to their cooking spaces. Personally I think the keyhole method is ingenious and the hydroponics system when copied can be useful in many places.

Keyhole Garden

A Keyhole Garden is a type of kitchen garden that recycles as it grows!

It looks like a keyhole from above with a central basket where compostable waste is placed and water is poured. These keyhole gardens are used in some African countries where it is very dry and hot. They are especially useful where the soil is poor. Water saved from the washing up is tipped into the basket. This then drains through the central basket taking the nutrients with it. The plants are fed from below instead of watering onto the surface where all the water would quickly evaporate

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Some youtube videos describing the process step by step. the constructions can be adapted to include locally sourced materials. The first one is from Bangladesh including small bamboo trellis fro growing vines. The second is from Uganda showing how little material is required and the construction in step formats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktg9Z1tGGcI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykCXfjzfaco

Advanced Hydroponic Rooftop vegetable gardening supplying a large restaurant in New York, no soil is used and the vegetables grow a lot faster than normal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5tnHfikb64

Growing in a bag like this to increase the planting area four fold so in essence from 4 feet planting area to 12 square feet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5tnHfikb64

A genuine smile and a very big bag of onions, 24 in fact

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When the technology is cleaned polished and represented it is called a Phytopod http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIVJj_ya ... ZgDtq9x2gA the Americans apparently love them for their apartment style gardening claiming to get 20 square feet from 4. these examples cost around $65 dollars ....phew (I think the African girls have got it sussed right)

Im not advocating that you should follow these suggestions but they are some ideas to start the thinking process "out of the box" for our members with small cultivation spaces. There are also similar ideas for cultivation involving recycled plastic drinks bottles.

Regards
Ifzal

[muhsinmalik1]

Assalam o alaikum Everyone,


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Kindly inform us from where we can get these plants.

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