If you want to make vegetable garden in Ghana, there are simple ways you can do it without wasting much money. This can be more fun activity to do with your family or neighbors. Here is how you can make vegetable garden in Ghana.
Steps to make vegetable garden in Ghana
1. Get your land space
You need to clear the land and prepare it to grow your vegetables. I understand perfectly your land space can be difficult to get but don’t worry. If you don’t have a backyard space you can use containers filled with soil to grow your vegetables.
2. Choose a vegetable
You need to select a vegetable to grow in your garden. In Ghana, I can recommend growing vegetables like tomatoes, pepper, lettuce, cucumber, carrots, spinach, and cowpeas. These vegetables are easy to grow and it takes two to three months for them to mature.
3. Get your seeds
After deciding the vegetable to grow in your garden, you can now walk into any agro-input shops near you to purchase the seeds. The seeds comes with intructions on how to nurse and grow them.
4. Nurse your seeds
Mostly these common vegetables like tomatoes and pepper need to be nursed before transplanting them. The instructions are listed on the seed containers or you can ask the agro shops for assistance in nursing the seeds this is because hybrid varieties of vegetable seed will require specific instructions to nurse them.
5. Watering
If you find yourself in the rainy season, you can ignore watering, however, if it is in the dry season you can water the vegetables but do not overwater them.
6. Control pest and disease
You can control weeds which results in controlling pests and diseases in your vegetable garden at home. Clearing weeds also prevents soil nutrition competition: hence, you don’t need to spend extra money on buying fertilizer for your vegetable garden at home.
Conclusion
Considering these factors, you can create a vegetable garden at home. For best practices, you can read about the vegetable of choice to know if it loves sunlight or shades.
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