Make a Terrace Garden on your rooftop, it is easy if you’ll do this with some planning.Fresh home grown vegetables and fruits taste delicious, are good for health and safe from chemicals. You don’t need to acquire a regular garden to grow them, you can also grow these on a balcony or terrace. Daizz's tips:- There are some really interesting ways to incorporate the vegetable crops on the terrace. 1. Creating a vegetable Garden in Pots In containers you can plant almost any vegetable. Choose large and deep pots, avoid thin and poor quality plastic pots because they heat up quickly and drain poorly. Soil Using normal garden soil is a bad idea for growing vegetables in pots. Instead use good quality potting mix for healthy growth of plants and productivity. Vegetables for Pots Tomatoes Cucumbers Radishes Beans Potatoes Onions Carrots Beetroot Lettuce Garlic Chilies and Peppers Gourds Eggplant (Brinjal) You can also integrate a vegetable patch on your terrace and grow vegetable on the surface itself. But doing this is only good on large rooftops. Vegetable patch is similar to making a normal garden bed. 2. Integrate Vegetable Patch on the Terrace The integrated bed should be filled normally with soil like a regular garden bed. An addition of compost in soil is a perfect natural fertilizer for most of the plants. 3. Optimize Vertical Space terrace vegetable garden Your main challenge is how smartly you utilize your vertical space to double up the space you have on your terrace, make a plan on how you should do this, if you have walls, hang planters on it. Grow vegetable shrubs and vines like beans, squashes, gourds and tall tomato varieties near the walls and railings. This way they’ll not only get support but also grow outside and upward and you’ll save a lot of your space.Use old shelves, racks to keep pots and buy pot holders, put them around the corners. On these you can grow herbs to improve the taste of salads and cuisines you’ll prepare, you can also grow lot of flowers to appease ornamental views. Tips for the Prolific Terrace Vegetable Garden Fertilize vegetables regularly with good quality organic fertilizer. With some research and experience you’ll be able to find out which type of fertilizer you should feed to specific vegetables. Prune vegetable plants to keep them in good shape and in healthy growth. Look out for suckers, especially in tomatoes and pinch them off immediately if found one. For the vegetables, it is always good to grow them on the Southern or Western face, so the plants will have enough sun and can thrive easily. But too much sun is not good either. If you live in a warm tropical climate and the sun is too strong, it is advisable to provide afternoon shade to plants. Whether the vegetables growing in raised beds or in a pot, a certain care is needed. By your experience you’ll find out how, why and what you should do to grow them successfully on a terrace vegetable garden. In today’s day and age, not all of us are blessed with gardens in our home. But this must not stop you from bringing some nature into your home. Having trees on your terrace is a great way to do so. Here is a list of top fruit trees that grows best on your terrace. Guava Guavas are easy to grow in tropical and sub-tropical climates, hence suitable for India. Guavas are rich in vitamin C, making them great for your family’s health. They are relatively easy to grow and do not require rigorous care. Just make sure your plant has enough room to spread and receives ample sunlight. Water whenever soil feels dry. Pomegranate Pomegranates are extremely good for your health. Growing a pomegranate tree is not as intimidating as it may seem. Pomegranates love sunshine, so pick a spot that receives plenty of sunlight. Pomegranates require deep watering more that frequent watering, so deep water once a week. Papaya Apart from being great for your health, papayas are extremely delicious as well. With ample sunlight your plant will start flowering in 5 to 6 months. Make sure you have a bisexual plant, plant many plants just to be on the safer side. Protect your plant from cold winds and water occasionally. Amrapali Mango Also known as the best variety of mango, Amrapali mango is a great addition to your plant family. Mango plants require deep watering and plenty of sunlight. Apply nitrogen fertilizers every 4 months for a healthy plant. The thing with mango is that you have to be patient. A tree takes a year to mature and then eventually give fruit Trying to forget by https://soundcloud.com/vbnd Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/1xDl1q2_9IY A WAY FOR ME by Nicolai Heidlas Music https://soundcloud.com/nicolai-heidlas Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Q-yp9a8gKD8

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