Kitchen Garden & Horticulture

About This Guide

Grow more than you buy.

A well-kept kitchen garden feeds the family with fresh, safe vegetables and saves money every week. This guide shows how to plan the garden, build fertile soil with compost, raise healthy seedlings, grow the main Kenyan vegetables, water with little water, control pests safely, and sell what the family does not eat.

How to use this guide

• Read Chapters 1 - 3 to plan the garden and prepare the soil.
• Use Chapters 4 - 5 to raise seedlings and grow each vegetable.
• Use Chapters 6 - 7 for watering, pests and diseases.
• Use Chapters 8 - 9 and the sheets to harvest, sell and plan the year.

What You'll Learn

• 1Why a Kitchen Garden
• 2Planning the Garden
• 3Soil, Manure and Compost
• 4Seeds, Nurseries and Transplanting
• 5Growing the Main Vegetables
• 6Watering and Irrigation
• 7Pests and Diseases
• 8Harvesting, Storing and Selling
• 9Planning the Whole Year

Also inside: A: Plans and Records; B: Quick Reference.