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Five vegetables you can grow in pots all around the year is one of the most viewed posts on the blog. And, another often searched item is ” how to grow tomatoes in pots at home”. I’m not surprised because the price of tomatoes varies substantially all through the years. Sometimes, they are available at throwaway prices and sometimes they are priced like gold. Nevertheless, becoming self sufficient for tomatoes, chillies has been a gardening goal for us. We have not bought papayas, pomegranates, lemons, basil, curry leaves and chilly from the market for the past year. I would like to soon get there for okra, beans, and tomatoes as well. In this post, I share my learning on what increased the size of my tomatoes, how to increase yield and grow tomatoes the organic way. Where to buy tomato seeds: I have compiled a resource of where to buy…

Winter is one time of the year when you can expect your vegetable garden to really thrive, from my experience. This post is a handy guide on what to grow in your kitchen garden in winter. Vegetables, flowering plants, and most herbs grow best in pots /containers at home in winter in India.  Also, make note of the tips on how to care for them. What you can grow in winter in your home garden There is very little that can go wrong. In summer, you face the risk of plants getting scorched or dried up if you forget to water them at least once a day. On the other hand, monsoon brings with it deadly tales of pests and creepy crawlies of all kinds. That’s why when it comes to gardening, I love winters. Vegetables are fresh in the market this time of the year, and the variety endless from carrots…

One Saturday morning, not so long ago, I attended the square foot gardening workshop at Daily Dump in Indira Nagar, Bangalore.  With just one objective: to unlearn whatever little I knew of gardening and growing vegetables/flowering plants in my humble balcony garden. 16 of us got together to begin the day with some yummy cookies. For the rest of the day, we were known not by our names, instead our identity was the vegetable/fruit of our choice. Over the past year, I parted away with most of my pots – some that had been with me for years; a few heavy ones that my father-in-law had painstakingly got upstairs. This was the last one to go, but it had to go for with no sunshine, thanks to dozens of tall Eucalyptus trees in the adjacent plot, all my plants were dying a slow death. It was sad to see the…