How To Start Home Gardening in Kano

Introduction

Home Gardening is a method of growing garden crops, (fruits, vegetables or ornamental plants) at home by using the little available land or using various containers filled with good soil or soilless mixes that can support crops if land is so scarce. Kano State is one of the most populated cities in Nigeria due to the rapid urbanization, and farmlands are also destructed for residential and industrial purposes. So Home Gardening must be highly popularized for raising populations to have access to fresh and healthy fruits and vegetables year round.

In this post. We will bring you concise and detailed information about how to home gardening in kano state.

Getting Started with Home Gardening in Kano. 

Getting started with home gardening in kano is very simple, but reaping the fruits and vegetables from home gardens requires one to get some knowledge on what home gardening is and how to practice it especially here in Kano State and also to follow certain steps as highlighted in this post.

1 Identify the Available Space that You Have. 

The first thing is to consider the available and space that you have around you. One of the most commonly asked question is 'I don't have any space around me' but the answer is that, there are many spaces that can be used to grow crops around you, but it needs some level of creativity to explore them. 

2 What Time and Energy Can You Sacrifice.

Having a healthy green plants growing around your compound throughout the year requires some level of sacrifice in term of time and energy, because are also living things, so they need to be taken care of by some daily management practices like watering.

3 Prepare Your Land or Space for the Crops.

The next thing after getting your land is to get it well prepared to support the plants. Make the soil well prepared by adding a well decomposed manure or compost to the soil. If you are to plant the crops in the containers, make the soil mix well prepared by mixing the best proportions of the potting soil ingredients which are sand, soil and well decomposed manure or compost at a ratio of 3:2:1 respectively.

4 planting. 

Planting can be done anytime but preparably when the weather is suitable for the intended crop. But before you plant any crop to your garden make sure the soil is wet because this will fasten the germination of the plants. It is advisable to grow different groups of plants with different lifecycle in home gardens because this will widen the harvesting periods. 

 5  Post Planting Management.

Management of home garden crops is sometimes more complicated than field despite the fact that garden crops are mostly cultivated in small area of land compared to field crops;  this is because garden crops are easily attacked by pests and diseases, so proper measures should be adopted to lessen the effect or pests and diseases. Another management practice that need to be taken care of is watering, because plants as living things can't survive without water, and home gardening is to be practiced through the year, so during the dry season one should water his crops regularly to maintain their healthy growth. 

5 Harvesting.

Garden crops can easily be harvested when the reach the intended maturity level because the usually consumed as soon as they are harvested, unlike most field crops that need to stored for a long period of time. Harvesting can be planned so that the crops will be available throughout the year.