Bloom with the spring garden

Bloom with the spring garden:

As the sun starts to come up in the sky early morning, spring is in the air, birds are chirping and flowers are blooming, it is time you know that it is spring time. 

In few weeks, seeds sprout, new saplings emerge and in few weeks time, plant starts to grow with new branches and leaves. And within no time, new buds emerge and there after beautiful flowers start to bloom whether it be for your flower plants or vegetable plants. As flowers bloom, the spring air is filled with sweet fragrance of flowers. It attracts beautiful butterflies and birds.

Here are some good ideas for container gardening during spring time:

Vegetable Garden:

Bush and Pole Beans for easy and bountiful harvest of beans.

Summer Squash

Tomatoes for variety cooking

Fenugreek or methi for becoming free or control sugar/diabetes problems

Spinach for health

Lettuce for summer salad needs

Flower Garden:

A beautiful, fragrant flower garden is desirable. 

Lilies for beautiful bloom

Geraniums 

Jasmine or mogra for sweet fragrance, relaxation and Puja flowers.

Herb Garden:

Herbs are easy to grow and can be easily grown indoors. 

Parsley for flavorful vegetarian pasta 

Thyme

Cilantro for flavor, health and garnishing tasty Indian vegetarian curries

Spice Garden:

Spices are healthy and are heavily used in Indian cooking and used around the world for cooking. 

Red pepper

Cayenne pepper

Cloves for tooth pain and to make good flavorful tea masala

Bloom with your beautiful spring garden!!!

                              

                                  Jasmine or Mogra from your flower garden for Puja flowers

                                

                                            Bumble Bee attracted to fragrant Jasmine or Mogra

                                                             Container Methi

                                                    

                                                                    Cilantro in bucket

Grow tomatoes for tangy, tasty and healthy foods

Tomatoes for tanginess, taste and health

 

Grow tomatoes for tangy foods, taste and health:

Food festivals are held in India and around the world, many of those tasty vegetarian snacks and foods have tomatoes in them as a ingredient in some or other form. While there are many vegetables that have importance in many ways but tomatoes are one of the most important ingredients in all foods, specially in Indian vegetarian curries, vegetarian dals/lentils and tasty Indian snacks. Foods/snacks that are made with home grown Organic tomatoes can be very tasty and healthy. 

From tangy snacks whether it be Indian or American snacks tomatoes add that special flavor that can make snacks very tasty and can be a mood changer. It is myth that only non-vegetarian foods can become comfort foods, even vegetarian foods can also change the mood and can make one feel good. Thus even tasty vegetarian foods can satisfy your hunger and change your mood without having to eat meats or eat more. Following are some of  the vegetarian foods that use tomatoes in them which can be change the mood and can be good for depressing weather: 

Indian snacks: masala papad and other snacks like bhel puri, sev puri.

Indian vegetarian dishes: Vegetable curries & vegetarian lentils/dals. 

Vegetarian Pizza's: Healthy Italian, American and Indian vegetarian pizza's including preparation of pizza sauce.

Vegetarian baked beans

Pasta's: Vegetable pasta & pasta sauce

Tomato pickle 

Healthy vegetarian Salads: Indian, American, European and mediterranean salads also use fresh tomatoes which are healthy.

You can grow tomatoes in containers/pots be it a ceramic container or plastic container, choose the right container and right size. Tomatoes thrive in warm/hot weather.  You can choose a good organic potting soil for your tomato plant. You can add support/tomato cage for the  plants in the initial stages before it grows big, it will help become strong. While growing, you can prune it few times, it will help it's growth and ultimately help developing flowers and fruits. Tomatoes can take some time to mature on the vine, you can regularly apply the tomato fertilizer along with some epsom salt. This will help mature the tomatoes sooner.  

Harvesting and maturing tomatoes off the tomato vine:

Tomatoes can be harvested when they are mature and red on the vine. Tomatoes need lot of sun shine days so that tomatoes ripen. If for some weather conditions if the tomatoes are taking longer to ripen, you can harvest them and then place them in paper bags for few days, this will help the tomatoes become mature/ripen from Green/brown to red. 

Some of the common remedies for your green tomato plants:

You can spray the tomato plant with Neem oil spray on the tomato plant leaves regularly. This will keep some of the garden pests away and keep the plant leaves shiny. Tomato plants are easy to grow and need little care except for in hot summer places, pests can become a issue. Using neem oil spray can help save the leaves and fruits. 

Banana peel powder is a good fertilizer and helps is producing bountiful flowers and tasty tomatoes. 

Ginger is warming, Indians normally use ginger for making Indian chai and while making this, ginger peels that remain from this can be used for making ginger water for the plants. If the peels from your cooking/tea/chai are too little, you can add more ginger to it for making boiled ginger water. Boil water and ginger for 20 minutes and then let the water cool down for sometime. Once cooled you can use this boiled ginger water for your green chilies. This is a excellent remedy for the plants in winter time when the weather outside is cold. We have seen it has helped the plants to keep producing vegetables/flowers through cooler weather. If you live in a country where the temperatures drops to freezing, it may be a good idea to move the plants indoors and still feed it with boiled ginger water, it may still help producing green chilies through cold temperatures.

Share your harvest or food:

Today hunger is one of the most crucial problems in the world whether in India, America or Africa. In India, for the hindu's, giving food or Anna Daan is considered to be a good act. Hence if you are in a position, grow your own food and share your harvest or food among the needy whether you live in India, America or any other country in the world will be a good thing to do. 

            

                                    Healthy vegetarian pizza using home grow tomatoes

                                                        

                                                            Roma tomatoes

                                                         

                                                               Indian tomatoes

                                                               

Container gardening as a therapy

Container Gardening as a therapy!

In these days where stress is prevalent everywhere, people are facing so many issues like alcohol abuse or drug abuse or tobacco abuse, it is very important for one to engage in activities that are constructive and can help relieve stress and give joy to yourself and others at the same time. Drugs abuse can be life threatening and can take away many things away from your precious life if not controlled in time. Hence it is better to say "No" to drugs(brown sugar, cannabis, cocaine,Heroin, Marijuana) the first time whether you are school going, college going, higher education, working, without job, frustrated, please say "NO" to drugs the first time itself so that you don't have to look for therapy like this one mentioned in this blog. 

Container gardening is one such good physical and mental activity that can engage body and the mind in a constructive way. Container gardening can give immense happiness and relaxation after long and stressful day even though it may be simple things like watering plants, picking your harvest, spraying plants with natural insecticide like neem spray.

While container gardening is good for all ages, it can particularly be a good thing for young kids as it can help them develop wide range of interests at a young age when their minds can get easily distracted into other things, specially for school going kids.  It can help them develop good character and if they take this further in the community, it can develop curiosity in young minds which will help them sharpen their mind. 

While gardening is a good therapy overall, in this blog particularly we are focusing on container gardening as it can be implemented at a very small scale, it could be small gardening area, small apartment terrace, balcony with only a few pots. 

Container gardening can also be a therapy for transforming anger, one forgets oneself when he/she is with nature.  It does not matter whether your garden space is small or big, it will be a good idea to spend some time with your container garden and plants.

                                                           Container gardening as a therapy

                                              Container gardening as a therapy

Promise to keep a Healthy Heart from Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day Promise:

Promise to keep a Healthy Heart from Valentine's Day!

There is nothing better than promising a healthy heart  from valentine's day to your loved ones. During the current times, stress is prevalent at work place, schools and colleges. While there are many ways to relieve stress, container gardening for keeping a healthy heart is one of the many ways. Container gardening can give immense happiness and relaxation after long and stressful day even though it may simple things like watering plants. Growing your own food is becoming more and more important these days for multiple reasons, container gardening can be a good hobby for few or it can be health making for others through healthy vegetable growing. Freshly grown vegetables are health givers, it can make a difference to once's overall health if eaten properly. Please consult your doctors if there are any restrictions. 

Select the vegetable or vegetables that you would like to grow in your garden space. The garden space can be a small terrace area in your apartment or balcony area of your apartment, or a garden area around your house. If your garden space is limited, you can grow simple herbs or simple vegetables like green beans that can be grown easily in smaller containers.

Growing vegetables can start with simple vegetables like green beans, bell peppers, green chilies and tomatoes. It can also be used for flower plants like Marigolds, Jasmine and Hibiscus. While flowers are important and give joy to people around the world, in India for women simple thing like growing their own Puja flowers in their balcony, terrace, apartment area or garden area around your house can bring lot of joy, happiness and relaxation.

Thus be it valentines day gift or marriage anniversary day gift, container gardening gift can certainly be one of your choices as this can bring long lasting happiness to your spouse. 

Thus from this valentine's day, you can keep this promise to your loved ones first and then also spread the joy to others around you!!!!

                                                        Jasmine or mogra for relaxation

Grow Methi or fenugreek for life long happiness free of sugar or diabetes problems

How to grow fenugreek or methi in container pots for life long happiness free of sugar or diabetes problems:

Starting with this famous quote of Mahatma Gandhi "A nations culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people". India is a sweet loving country with sweets made specifically for Indian festivals like Diwali, Navaratri, Makar Sankranti or be it the Maha Kumbh Mela festival at the Triveni sangam of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers. There are variety of sweets ranging from methi ladoo's, kaju katli, kalakand,jalebi, gulab jamun, kheer, rabri, ras malai and many more. Like India, sweets are enjoyed by people around the world like Americans enjoy different types of pies, Italians like tiramisu, middle eastern baklava is very famous and British like enjoying tea with cookies. With stress all around us in the current world, sugar is first place where people run towards. High sugar consumption consistently can cause high blood sugar and lead towards diabetes. Fenugreek or methi is bitter in taste and is very good for health, especially for people who are diabetic or have high blood sugar problems. If eaten regularly in some form or the other, it can reduce these problems to good extent and keep them well in control.

Fenugreek or Methi is very widely used in cooking Indian and in some mediterranean dishes. Dried methi leaves are called kasuri methi, this is used often in Indian cooking. Fresh methi leaves, methi powder or methi seeds can be used along with other Indian spices for cooking different recipes like Dal methi, Aloo methi subzi, methi mattar malai, chole/chickpeas masala with methi, tomato omelet with methi or methi powder, dosa or masala methi dosa, methi thepla or methi paratha. Methi can also be used in sweets itself like methi ladoos or others which can add health along with celebrations during festivals. Methi can be used for making vegetable patties with methi mixed into it for giving flavor to the pattie. It can also be used in American dishes like vegetarian pasta with fresh fenugreek leaves or even dried leaves(kasuri methi) to give flavor to the pasta. It can be used to make healthy vegetarian burgers with sprouted fenugreek or fenugreek leaves into it. For middle eastern dishes fenugreek can be added to hummus to make it healthy.

Methi seeds that are soaked into warm water overnight and consumed are very healthy for high sugar and diabetes patients. The same water can be used for your daily cooking and also for your plants.

Grow methi in pot:

Growing Fenugreek or methi in your container garden is very simple and easy to grow. You can grow fenugreek or methi in containers/pots be it a ceramic container or plastic container, choose the right container and right size. You can choose good Organic fenugreek seeds, good organic potting soil for growing your fenugreek.  Put the soil into the pot and plant the seeds about ½ inch depth and cover it with soil. You can also soak the methi/fenugreek seeds into warm water first for 4-5 hours and then use these seeds to plant them into the soil instead.  Water the soil after planting it and then wait for 2-3 days for the sprouting to happen and seedling to come up. In a 2-3 weeks time, you have delicate/tender methi/fenugreek leaves ready for harvesting. Depending on your consumption of methi, you can have one or more methi pots that you can harvest and repot with methi seeds to get the harvest continuously.

Some of the common remedies for your fenugreek/methi plants:

You can spray the fenugreek/methi plant with Neem oil spray on the fenugreek plant leaves regularly. This will keep some of the garden pests away and keep the plant leaves shiny.  Fenugreek/methi plants are easy to grow and need little care except for in hot summer places, pests can become a issue. Using neem oil spray can help save the leaves and fruits. 

India which has used methi for ages for various different health reasons and is now using it also to fight/battle diabetes using it in various different ways through Indian vegetarian cuisines. Like India, fenugreek(methi) can be used by different cultures around the world and incorporate into their vegetarian food habits in their own way to fight sugar or diabetes problems. 

To conclude like the above quote at the start from Mahatma Gandhi, his teachings of health and culture can be inculcated in every culture to make it better no matter where you are, like methi in the Indian culture that is widely used, different cultures around the world can use fenugreek(methi in India)  to live a long happy life free of sugar or diabetes problems.

If used regularly in some or the other form in your diet, it can become a kamadhenu which can keep fulfilling your families wishes of a healthy life. 

Note: If you are diabetic or have high blood sugar, please consult your doctor before making any diet changes. Fenugreek or methi can be used to control or proactively avoid sugar or diabetes problems.

                                                         

                                             Fenugreek or methi grown in small pots 

                                                      Fenugreek or methi in sunshine 

    

                             Fresh home grow fenugreek/methi for diabetes or sugar problems

                                                                        Dal methi 

                           Vegetarian pasta with fenugreek leaves for sugar or diabetes control

                      Vegetarian roti pizza with methi in crust and toppings for sugar control

                                

Grow Jasmine or mogra plant for sweet fragrance, relaxation and puja flowers

Grow Jasmine or mogra plant for sweet fragrance, relaxation and Puja flowers : 

Jasmine plant can be grown in most parts of the world, depending on the weather conditions and season. In India, it is widely used at home and in temples where puja is performed. Jasmine fragrance is sweet and relaxing, it can revive mood easily. It is used commercially in variety of ways ranging from soaps, diffusers and herbal teas. It is a very useful plant for your vegetable container garden as well as it can attract pollinators like bumble bees, honey bees and different kinds of butterflies including white butterflies. Flowers produced are white and have sweet fragrance.  

Jasmine or mogra flowers have sweet smell. It is symbol of love, in India it is used to prepare flower garlands which are called gajra's that are used for daily puja or puja ceremony in temples. Mogra flowers, garlands and mogra attar, mogra incense or dhoop sticks can all be prepared from mogra and used for pujas. The same mogra garlands are also used by women in India on their head. 

You can easily grow jasmine in small to medium sized containers. Select the correct potting soil for your jasmine plant and good plant food for your jasmine. Organic potting mix, organic plant food along with organic fertilizers are always good to use for your container gardening as they will provide you with a healthy plant and flowers. 

Some of the common remedies for your container garden:

You can spray jasmine or mogra plant with Neem oil spray regularly. This will keep some of the garden pests away and keep the plant leaves shiny. Using neem oil spray can help save the leaves. If you see diseased or dry leaves, you can trim/prune the plant and remove the older/diseased leaves. New leaves will then produce fresh flowers. 

Banana peel powder is a good fertilizer and helps in producing bountiful flowers.

You can also use boiled water with coriander seeds, fennel seeds and cummin seeds together and feed them to the plants in summer time, we have seen that it helps beans during the summer time. It is a good remedy for plants in summer time.

Ginger is warming, Indians normally use ginger for making Indian chai and while making this, ginger peels that remain from this can be used for making ginger water for the plants. If the peels from your cooking/tea/chai are too little, you can add more ginger to it for making boiled ginger water. Boil water and ginger for 20 minutes and then let the water cool down for sometime. Once cooled you can use this boiled ginger water for plants like like Marigolds, Jasmine and Hibiscus. This is a excellent remedy for the plants in winter time when the weather outside is cold. We have seen it has helped the plants to keep producing flowers through cooler weather. If you live in a country where the temperatures drops to freezing, it may be a good idea to move the plants indoors and still feed it with boiled ginger water.

Thus Jasmine or mogra is one of very must have plants for any container garden be it flower butterfly garden or vegetable garden.

                                                                    Jasmine/Mogra Plant

Grow Green chili plants for spice and life

How to grow green chili plants for spice and life:

Green chilies have life giving antioxidants substances called capsaicin that can avoid cancer. Green chilies can add spice to any dish be it Indian, American or any other. In India, food is incomplete without adding spice to it and nothing better than green chilies. In depressing winter weather chilies can add warmth and life. Many Indian dishes add green chilies for adding flavor to it and with right quantity it makes the dishes healthier and tastier. In winter green chilies can add warmth to hotly prepared meals, be it vegetable soups like vegetarian lentils,vegetable curries or even vegetarian baked beans. It can also be used to make coriander and coconut chutneys which have green chilies in them that adds flavor to chutneys which then can consumed along with your meals. Green chilies in chutneys which can be added to different vegetarian foods are good for cancer as they reduce cancer risk. 

Green chilies are of many varieties but some of the popular varieties of green chilies are Jwala, Teja and lavangi.

You can grow chilies in containers/pots be it a ceramic container or plastic container, choose the right container and right size. Green chilies thrive in warm/hot weather.  You can choose a good organic potting soil for your chili plant. Chili plants can be grown from seeds or if you plan on buying a plant from the nursery, you can plant it in the pot. You can add support for the chili plants in the initial stages before it grows big, it will help become strong. While growing, you can prune it few times, it will help it's growth and ultimately help developing flowers and fruits. 

Some of the common remedies for your green chili plants:

You can spray the chili plant with Neem oil spray on the chili plant leaves regularly. This will keep some of the garden pests away and keep the plant leaves shiny. Chili plants are easy to grow and need little care except for in hot summer places, pests can become a issue. Using neem oil spray can help save the leaves and fruits. 

Banana peel powder is a good fertilizer and helps is producing bountiful flowers and tasty chilies. Chilies can be harvested early and fresh if you want them to be mild. If you keep them longer on the plant, then it makes them more spicier.  

Ginger is warming, Indians normally use ginger for making Indian chai and while making this, ginger peels that remain from this can be used for making ginger water for the plants. If the peels from your cooking/tea/chai are too little, you can add more ginger to it for making boiled ginger water. Boil water and ginger for 20 minutes and then let the water cool down for sometime. Once cooled you can use this boiled ginger water for your green chilies. This is a excellent remedy for the plants in winter time when the weather outside is cold. We have seen it has helped the plants to keep producing vegetables/flowers through cooler weather. If you live in a country where the temperatures drops to freezing, it may be a good idea to move the plants indoors and still feed it with boiled ginger water, it may still help producing green chilies through cold temperatures.

Harvesting Green chilies:

Green chilies can be plucked or cut from the plant when chilies become green in color. If you want the chilies to be spicier, you can let them be on the plant in the summer weather for longer time until their color changes to dark green which makes them spicy. Further in few more days they turn red and become spicier. Thus you can harvest green chilies spicier by keeping them longer on the plant. 

Thus add green chilies in some form or other to your food, spice up your life and live healthy.

                        

                                        Healthy veggie pizza with green chilies and vegetables

                                                             Indian Green Chilies

अपने छोटे से बगीचे में अपना भोजन उगाएँ

आजकल कई कारणों से अपना भोजन खुद उगाना बहुत ज़रूरी होता जा रहा है। कंटेनर गार्डनिंग कुछ लोगों के लिए एक अच्छा शौक हो सकता है या यह स्वस्थ सब्ज़ियाँ उगाने के ज़रिए दूसरों के लिए स्वास्थ्यवर्धक हो सकता है, यह लंबे काम के दिन के बाद कुछ लोगों के लिए आराम का ज़रिया हो सकता है। ताज़ी उगाई गई सब्ज़ियाँ स्वास्थ्यवर्धक होती हैं, अगर इन्हें सही तरीके से खाया जाए तो यह आपके समग्र स्वास्थ्य में फ़र्क ला सकती हैं। अगर कोई प्रतिबंध हैं तो कृपया अपने डॉक्टर से सलाह लें।

वह सब्ज़ी या सब्ज़ियाँ चुनें जिन्हें आप अपने बगीचे में उगाना चाहते हैं। बगीचे की जगह आपके अपार्टमेंट में एक छोटा सा छत वाला क्षेत्र या आपके अपार्टमेंट का बालकनी वाला क्षेत्र या आपके घर के आस-पास का बगीचा हो सकता है। अगर आपके बगीचे की जगह सीमित है, तो आप साधारण जड़ी-बूटियाँ या साधारण सब्ज़ियाँ उगा सकते हैं जिन्हें छोटे कंटेनरों में आसानी से उगाया जा सकता है।

चाहे आपका कंटेनर गार्डन स्पेस छोटे अपार्टमेंट की छत हो या आपके घर के आस-पास का क्षेत्र, अपने बगीचे को तूफ़ान/हवा से सुरक्षित बनाना सुनिश्चित करें। हल्के बर्तन/कंटेनर उड़ सकते हैं/गिर सकते हैं, लंबे पिंजरे ठीक से सहारा दिए बिना गिर सकते हैं।

अपनी सब्ज़ियों के लिए सही पॉटिंग मिट्टी और अपनी सब्ज़ियों के लिए अच्छा पौधों भोजन चुनें। ऑर्गेनिक पॉटिंग मिक्स, ऑर्गेनिक  पौधों भोजन और ऑर्गेनिक फ़र्टिलाइज़र हमेशा आपके कंटेनर गार्डनिंग के लिए अच्छे होते हैं क्योंकि ये आपको स्वस्थ सब्ज़ियाँ प्रदान करेंगे। 

कंटेनर गार्डनिंग एक आनंददायक शौक है जो एक बार नियमित रूप से करने पर आरामदेह हो सकता है। यहाँ तक कि रोज़ाना पौधों को पानी देने जैसी छोटी-छोटी चीज़ें भी आपको आराम पहुँचा सकती हैं।

शाकाहारियों के लिए हरी बींस

                                                                स्वास्थ्यवर्धक सब्ज़ियाँ

                                                                           हरी बींस

What Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak, Green Beans and Ganesh Utsav can teach the world

In today's fast-paced, globalized world, Tilak's teachings hold significant relevance. His call for self-reliance echoes in the "Make in India" and "Atmanirbhar Bharat" initiatives. His emphasis on education and ethical living finds resonance in contemporary discussions on holistic development and sustainable living.

In India, the Ganesh Utsav was started by Shree Lokmanya Tilak with the single intention of uniting a very diverse nation. In today's fast-paced, globalized world, Tilak's teachings hold significant relevance. His call for self-reliance echoes in the "Make in India" and "Atmanirbhar Bharat" initiatives. His emphasis on education and ethical living finds resonance in contemporary discussions on holistic development and sustainable living.

Growing one's own food is becoming more and more relevant and important in today's world, this will improve self-reliance if done in mass and ensure sustainable living, it can be as little as growing vegetables that last for 1 or 2 meals in a week depending on weather conditions and place where one lives. Beans can be easily grown very easily in small garden spaces anywhere in the world. Below shows how beans can be easily grown.

Grow your own food using Container Gardening: Grean Beans for vegetarians (vegcontainergardening.blogspot.com)

Below are the names of some Green beans recipes from different parts of India, they are cooked with similar masalas but they differ in flavors but all can relish and enjoy these simple vegetarian dishes. In Maharashtra and Goa, it is called Farasbi, in south India it is called Poriyal, in Gujarat it is called Fansi nu Shaak, in Bihar it is called Bihari Green Beans, in Andhra Pradesh it is called Beans Vepudu, in Punjab it is called Aloo Beans Sabzi and in West Bengal, it is called Green Beans curry.

Similarly vegetarian green beans dishes can be made anywhere in the world, In America, it can be Stir fried green beans with garlic, Thai green beans in Thailand, in Italy it can be Sauteed Italian Green Beans, in middle east it can be middle eastern green beans salad or it could be Nigerian green bean and rice in Africa.

To conclude, his teachings of self-reliance, holistic development and sustainable living practices can be inculcated anywhere in the world like growing green beans.

                                            

                          

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Grow Green Beans for vegetarians using container gardening

Grow Green Beans for vegetarians using container gardening:

Green Beans are one of the most popular vegetables in all cultures, be it in America, Europe or India. In India it is one of the most popular and healthy vegetables that is used in many Indian vegetarian cuisines, specially in vegetarian dishes. 

There are many types of green beans that one can grow. In this blog, we will talk mainly about two different variety of beans, Pole and Bush beans.

You can grow beans in containers/pots be it a ceramic container or plastic container, choose the right container and right size. Picking good Organic Non-GMO Beans seeds is the first step, using Organic and Non-GMO is always a better choice, it will provide you with healthier produce. If you are growing pole beans, choose a bigger container/pot as pole beans can climb very tall even up to height of 8 feet as seen in the below picture. Choose the right potting mix for growing beans. Beans like cooler weather to thrive.  For pole beans, you will need a good cage for the beans to climb or you can build your own trellis. Make sure that the trellis that you build for your beans are sturdy. If they are not sturdy, then the beans flowers may drop at early stages and fruits may never develop. If you are using a tall cage for your pole beans, be sure to provide it adequate support so that the tower does not collapse when there are high winds or a storm. If you are planting seeds, plant them one inch deep and 3-5 inches apart in medium to large pots. For pole beans it is better to use larger pots compared to bush beans, as they can grow very tall and produce lots of beans. Bush beans produce beans quickly and can grow even in medium pots and even smaller pots as can be seen in the picture below. 

Some of the common remedies for your vegetarian beans plants:

You can spray the beans plant with Neem oil spray on the bean plant leaves regularly. This will keep some of the garden pests away and keep the plant leaves shiny. Beans plants grow very fast, they are easy to grow and need little care except for in hot summer places, pests can become a issue. Using neem oil spray can help save the leaves and fruits. If you see diseased or yellow leaves, you can trim/prune the plant and remove the older/diseased leaves. New leaves will then produce fresh flowers and beans. 

Banana peel powder is a good fertilizer and helps in producing bountiful flowers and well formed tasty fruits which in this case are beans. 

You can also use boiled water with coriander seeds, fennel seeds and cummin seeds together and feed them to the plants in summer time, we have seen that it helps beans during the summer time. It is a good remedy for plants in summer time.

Ginger is warming, Indians normally use ginger for making Indian chai and while making this, ginger peels which remain from this can be used for making ginger water for the plants. If the peels from your cooking/tea/chai are too little, you can add more ginger to it for making boiled ginger water. Boil water and ginger for 20 minutes and then let the water cool down for sometime. Once cooled you can use this boiled ginger water for beans plants. This is a excellent remedy for the plants in winter time when the weather outside is cold. We have seen it has helped the plants to keep producing vegetables/flowers through cooler weather. If you live in a country where the temperatures drops to freezing, it may be a good idea to move the plants indoors and still feed it with boiled ginger water.

Harvesting beans fresh is important and harvesting them regularly will also help the plant keep on producing new beans, giving you bountiful harvest throughout the season.  

                                                    

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Grow your own food using container gardening

Growing your own food is becoming more and more important these days for multiple reasons.  Container gardening can be a good hobby for few or it can be health making for others through healthy vegetable growing, it can be relaxation for some after long work day. Freshly grown vegetables are health givers, it can make a difference to once's overall health if eaten properly. Please consult your doctors if there are any restrictions. 

Select the vegetable or vegetables that you would like to grow in your garden space. The garden space can be a small terrace area in your apartment or balcony area of your apartment, or a garden area around your house. If your garden space is limited, you can grow simple herbs or simple vegetables like green beans that can be grown easily in smaller containers.

Whether your container garden space is small apartment terrace or a area around your house, make sure to make your garden storm proof/wind proof. Lighter pots/containers can fly/topple, tall cages can topple unless supported properly. 

Select the correct potting soil for your vegetable and good plant food for your vegetables. Organic potting mix, organic plant food along with organic fertilizers are always good to use for your container gardening as they will provide you with healthy vegetables. Using Organic Non-GMO seeds for growing your food is always a better choice.

Some of the common remedies for your vegetarian garden:

You can spray vegetable plants with Neem oil spray regularly. This will keep some of the garden pests away and keep the plant leaves shiny. Using neem oil spray can help save the leaves and fruits. If you see diseased or yellow leaves, you can trim/prune the plant and remove the older/diseased leaves. New leaves will then produce fresh flowers and fruits. 

Banana peel powder is a good fertilizer and helps in producing bountiful flowers and well formed tasty fruits. 

You can also use boiled water with coriander seeds, fennel seeds and cummin seeds together and feed them to the plants in summer time, we have seen that it helps beans during the summer time. It is a good remedy for plants in summer time.

Ginger is warming, Indians normally use ginger for making Indian chai and while making this, ginger peels that remain from this can be used for making ginger water for the plants. If the peels from your cooking/tea/chai are too little, you can add more ginger to it for making boiled ginger water. Boil water and ginger for 20 minutes and then let the water cool down for sometime. Once cooled you can use this boiled ginger water for vegetable plants like beans, bell peppers, green chilies and tomatoes. It can also be used for flower plants like Marigolds, Jasmine and Hibiscus. This is a excellent remedy for the plants in winter time when the weather outside is cold. We have seen it has helped the plants to keep producing vegetables/flowers through cooler weather. If you live in a country where the temperatures drops to freezing, it may be a good idea to move the plants indoors and still feed it with boiled ginger water.

Regarding container gardening itself, it is a joyous hobby which can be relaxing once you start doing it regularly. Even little thing like watering plants daily can relax one. 

Container gardening is good for people who are doing it for relaxation, want to grow their own food for better health or for people who want to start learning gardening. 

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