Organic fruit and vegetable commodities are getting expensive day by day, organic produce is also difficult to find as very few marketplaces offer organic produce. In these days of hardship in finding organic fruits and vegetables, people tend to grow on their own. Homegrown vegetables and fruits are a lot tastier and healthier; it also helps in reducing your grocery bills and save you from the hassle of finding organic produce. Making your kitchen garden is also an active trend these days the sales of fruiting plants is going much higher than the flower plants.
            There are different ways that you can opt. to grow your own vegetables and fruits, if you are new to kitchen gardening, we’ve got some DIY tips and tricks for you to remember.
  1. Find The Perfect Spot
The first step in making a kitchen garden is to find the perfect spot for your plants to grow, a place where sufficient sunlight and air are available for plants. Garden plants require three to six hours of sunlight daily, with plenty of air circulation.
If you have a garden then there’s no need to worry to find a space, or you can also grow inside your kitchen windows, small things like herbs.
If you don’t have any natural light source in your kitchen, use grows lights, these are artificial lights that help in plant growth by stimulating photosynthesis.
 
 
  1. DIY Container
If you don't want to buy clay pots or can't source one, make your DIY containers or pots. You can reuse plastic bottles, jars, glass containers, etc.
Cut your plastic bottle in half and draw small holes on the bottom for excess moisture retention, make sure to put some pebbles inside the container before adding the soil to prevent excess water drainage. The glass containers and jar should also be filled with pebbles up to 1 inch as they don't have holes in the bottom.
Remember to choose containers that are at least 6 inches and above taller.
 
 
  1. Growing from parts of fruits and vegetables
Making your DIY seeds is easy, or you can grow directly from the fruit. Here are some of the plants that you can grow from scratch.
  • Aloe vera: Take a leave of Aloe vera and cut it into small one inch pieces, and place them in a glass container filled with soil, the roots will grow back in a few days and after a few weeks the whole plant will start to root out from that small piece.
  • Tomato: Tomato is one of the easiest kitchen plants to grow. You can grow it with seeds, or simply just take a tomato cut it into round slices and place it in the container you want it to grow the plant will sprout in a few days, change the container as the plant grow bigger.
  • Cucumber: Take a cucumber, cut out the center part where the seeds are present, remove the seeds carefully and put them in a glass of water, swirl the water, the good seeds will sit in the bottom. Take out the seeds place them on a piece of tissue paper and let them dry. When the seeds are dried put them in the soil one inch apart and you'll have your cucumbers in weeks.
 
  1. Growing from seeds
Growing from seeds is also not difficult. You can easily get the seeds of any fruit or vegetable you want from your local gardeners. But as we are talking about the DIY ways, we are going to tell you how you can make your seeds.
Cut out the fruit you want the seeds of, remove the seeds gently, place the seeds on a clean paper towel, or tissue paper and let them dry.Later on, when the seeds have dried you can sow them in the soil, and voila you will have your plant.
 
 
  1. DIY Watering Can
The kitchen garden is made on a small scale and using big water can water the plants can be messy, so you can make your watering bottle just by taking regular sized water and making holes in the cap, fill the bottle with water and you are good to go. Or you can use a spray gun to water your plants.
 
Summing up
            Tell us what you think about making a kitchen garden, if you are attempting to grow your plants do follow the tips and tricks mentioned above.