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    Growing a Home Garden
    Growing a Home Garden
    Growing a Home Garden
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    Growing a Home Garden

    By Harshita Joshi

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    Gardening may be pursued either as a hobby or as a career. To the modern urban world, gardening is a hobby, a relaxing escape from the pressures of an urban environment. To a vocational gardener, gardening may be an enjoyable vocation. Whatever may be the reason behind the gardening activity, undoubtedly, growing flowers, fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits, provides a great sense of joy, relaxation and accomplishment

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAgrihortico
    Release dateMar 15, 2021
    ISBN9781393486749
    Growing a Home Garden
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    Harshita Joshi

    Harshita Joshi is an agribusiness consultant and a freelance writer. She holds Bachelor’s Degree in Horticulture and Post Graduate Diploma in Agribusiness Management. Horticulture is one of her areas of expertise and writing is her passion.She publishes her writings on horticulture with the help of agrihortico.com,a leading portal in horticulture knowledge dissemination services.

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      Growing a Home Garden - Harshita Joshi

      Growing a Home Garden

      A Simple Guide for Beginners

      Harshita Joshi

      All Rights Reserved. No parts of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of agrihortico

      © 2012 AGRIHORTICO

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      Growing a Home Garden

      Content

      Gardening: Meaning and Importance

      Types of Gardening

      Home Gardening: An Introduction

      Types of Garden Plants

      Annual Flowering Plants for Home Garden

      Herbs for Home Garden

      Vegetables for Home Garden

      Fruit Plants for Home Garden

      Indoor Gardening

      Benefits of Home Gardening

      Planning a Home Garden

      Preparation of Growing Media

      Growing Practices for Garden Plants

      Lawn for Home Garden

      Garden Tools for a Beginner

      Pest and Disease Management

      Bibliography

      Gardening: Meaning and Importance

      A garden, as per Oxford dictionary, is a piece of ground used for growing flowers and vegetables, and gardening is the activity of growing flowers and vegetables on a piece of ground. However in broad term, a garden may be defined as a piece of land that is used for beautification and utility purposes. A garden may be beautified by landscaping and by planting flowering and foliage plants. It is made useful by planting vegetables, medicinal and culinary herbs, and fruit trees.

      Gardening may be pursued either as a hobby or as a career. To the modern urban world, gardening is a hobby, a relaxing escape from the pressures of an urban environment. To a vocational gardener, gardening may be an enjoyable vocation. Whatever may be the reason behind the gardening activity, undoubtedly, growing flowers, fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits, provides a great sense of joy, relaxation and accomplishment.

      In horticulture, gardening is defined as the practice of growing and cultivating plants. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance, while other useful plants such as root vegetables, leafy vegetables, fruit plants, and herbs are grown for consumption purposes. There are certain other plants that are grown for use as dyes, or for their medicinal or cosmetic properties.

      Types of Gardening

      Gardening may be specialized or generic. Specialized gardens focus on growing a specific category

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