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Kitchen Garden:
These are the garden in which different kind of vegetable crops are grown for different purposes.
Types: - Barley (1949) classified the vegetable garden into 2 broad categories:-
i. Home scale production- It is meant for supplying vegetables for household consumption.
ii. Commercial production- It meet the requirement of the local market, distant market & export
market.
Later on Thompson & Kelly (1979) classified the vegetable garden into 7 different categories. They are:-
1. Kitchen Garden: As the name indicates these gardens are located adjacent to the kitchen yard.
The garden provides fresh vegetables for consumption of one’s own family members
throughout the year. So intensive care is taken to utilize every inch of land both in time and
space dimension. The garden provides nutritious vegetables to a family throughout the year
without searching for vegetables from outside source. So the nutrition balance of the family
members is maintained. That’s why kitchen garden is otherwise known as nutrition garden.
Generally kitchen garden uses the waste water of the bathroom and kitchen with or without tap
water.
Advantages:
i. The garden occupies unutilized back yard space of the residential building.
ii. It is a place of recreation and healthy occupation of all ages of family members.
iii. It cuts down the vegetable bill of the family.
iv. Vegetable production from these garden are fresh and nutritious.
v. The vegetable are free from residues of insecticides or fungicides.
vi. It cuts down the water bill of the family as it uses the waste water of bathroom and kitchen.
Location:
Design:
Largely depend on availability of land. While designing the following principles should be followed.