The elaboration of a garden is synonymous with health for our lives of health. Its main meaning is to eat healthy without chemicals and preservatives, being natural and organic. It equals greater longevity in our lives here on earth. It also gives us a permanent supply of food, a symbol of an alternative option for our survival. The garden helps us to awaken in our life’s nutritional habits and new healthier styles. And the possibility of also improving our economic income, individual, such as family income.
It also strengthens and stimulates bonds between family members; Improving union and communication. When making a garden, you take advantage of the spaces in places: Urban, extra urban and non-urban; with the selection of recycled materials to give it an adequate use in the elaboration of the garden. The acquisition of wisdom or knowledge that we absorb, makes us improve our knowledge of our great-grandparents and grandparents for future generations in formation of each region of the world.
But before knowing how to make a garden you must first know some things so that you take it into account.
What is the Huerta?
It is an extension of land of 1.20 m x 1 m as minimum and maximum dimensions, measures 10,000 m² hectares. Where their main crop is legumes and vegetables, they are much larger than orchards with much less trees and more vegetables. In most parts of the world all the land is used for pulses, vegetables and vegetables.
Types of Gardens
- Soil gardens: This is a bit lucky or takes a little time for all the effort to bear fruit since the land you want to be used may have already been used recently and that the nutrients, they had will no longer be more effective but still gives the same result but with a little more time
- Pot gardens: This is seen a lot in urban cities because the land will not be the same as it was before becoming urban so pots are used with the soil transplanted from another place to be able to make the garden.
- Cultivation tables: Cultivation tables are orchards that are built inside tables, which have a certain height if you want the plants to be located at a higher height from the ground.
- Traditional agriculture gardens: this as the name suggests is to do it traditionally without having to use special tools such as chemical fertilizers, insecticide, among others.
- Orchards with agroecological techniques: They are ecological gardens in which only natural techniques are used within the cultivation process, without having to use any product such as organic and synthetic.
Now let’s continue with the procedures to make your own garden.
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Steps to create the garden
For the elaboration of a garden, you need certain characteristics.
- Location of the chosen land has to be clear in the aerial area where sunlight is not covering the place where you want between 8 to 10 hours of the day.
- Water for irrigation you have to have a rainwater storage pond and have your water supplies all year round.
- Having or elaborating a place where we can throw away the waste of the preparation of a meal or salad. By putting water, air and temperature to decompose, this constitutes a rich source of vitamins and nutrients for crops to prepare the land chosen for planting.
Characteristics of a garden to be productive
- The association of crops: It is to choose the crops that benefit each other, that do not fight for the absorption of nutrients in the soil.
- Crop rotation: An area of land where it was planted last year this year should be cultivated in another area that is already prepared with fertilizer. Not every year you have to plant in the same place because the quality and efficiency will drop significantly.
- The use of fertilizers is essential: Preparing the ground guarantees success in crops and optimal growth in legumes and vegetables.
Note: A fertile soil must have: Air, water, minerals and organic matter. It is important to restore the amount of organic matter in the soil, the area chosen for the garden.
Now that you can make a garden you can lead your healthier life and make the most of it. Having a good diet and vitamins in your life and that of your family. Without having to buy foods that have chemicals that damage your body in the long term as time goes by, you can also try selling your crops to increase both the income and production of your crops making it more nutritious and increasing its quality.