Date Posted: 4/21/2012 9:27:34 AM
Posted By: SimonMburu Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 838
Urban life has become so expensive that it has forced many dwellers to surrender and retreat back to the village where life is a bit cheap. People living in urban bungalows have an advantage that can cut down the expenditures on food although most of them have not yet discovered how their backyards could be of economical benefit to their lives. Urban dwellers feel it is uncouth to grow vegetables at the backyard and instead they use the gardens for flowers, lawn grass among other outside beautification.With the economy opening its mouth for our pockets, we really need to find any possible methods of survival that can deliver us from the claws of inflation. The idea of turning the backyard to a small vegetable garden is one great remedy that will cut off the expenditure on vegetables which is sometimes on the rise especially during the dry season.Apart from getting savings benefit, one is also able to get fresh vegetables in plenty. If the backyard is a little bit big, one can also be able to produce in plenty and sell the products to the neighbors at reasonable prices hence earn little cash.The cost of putting up these gardens is not very high. All you need is several number of sacks for planting kales ('sukumawiki'), and a hoe for digging up the ground.Seedlings are available in the market at cheap prices of between 20 to 100 shillings.Watering the plants can be done once or twice a day depending with the season.These gardens are quite good since they don't need big agricultural expenditures example pesticides.The kind of vegetables ideal for the backyard garden include kales, tomatoes, onions, chillies among other small vegetables.Many people don't realize the amount of cash they spend on food, and it seems like a small issue but in reality food takes a bigger percentage of urban many budgets. Utilizing this alternative will enable one save a large amount of cash spent on food alone.
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