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May 2, 2024
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Grow vegetables and spices in your home

Who likes to cook? or at least eating? you will always prefer, for example, fresh basil to processed ones. But how do you get fresh vegetables and spices without having to go to the fair every day? An mini garden installed in your home can solve this problem. And don't even start with the excuses? But I live in an apartment? or "I don't have room to plant", because with simple and practical ideas anyone can grow spices.

Architect and landscape architect Adriana Provença explains that the space for mini garden it can be small and even unusual. • A window sill will perfectly serve to place four or five vases. A corner in your service area can also house the seedlings. Can you dare and make a vertical garden in a corridor?

But the most important thing is that the place receives direct sunlight (preferably in the morning), because the plants need at least four hours of natural light to grow. Also prefer an airy place that does not have a strong wind stream.

The materials to compose the garden are also simple and cheap. You can use small individual vases made of plastic, ceramic or clay. You can also use the rectangular plastic garden boxes and split several seedlings in one piece. These boxes are great when space is very limited.

And can you be even greener and more natural and reuse pet bottles or aluminum cans? chocolate milk or milk powder? to make your vessels. But beware of pot drainage, because if not drained properly, plant roots can rot and your work will literally sink down.

Then it's time to invest in tillage to ensure a healthy garden and constant. You can buy composted soil or make a mixture of two parts common ground plus one part organic compost and one part sand, which will facilitate drainage. With this cute mix the roots will find a way to grow.

Choose the seeds, which can be chives, parsley, basil, mint, fennel, lemon balm, etc. It all depends on your personal taste and your use as well. Settle them in the middle of the prepared earth and wait.

For maintenance remember that you need to water your mini plantation every day, but just enough to moisten the soil, no soak the pots. As you use the seasonings, maintain with the compost and also prune to remove wilted or bruised leaves. You will surely receive an extra compliment as you serve the meal.