This book provides comprehensive information about the vegetable gardening practices for all the months and establishment of Nutri-Garden. Now-a-days commercial agriculture, vegetables and fruits play a significant role in human health. Vegetables and fruits production operations range from small patches of crops, producing a few vegetables and fruits for family use or marketing, to the great highly organized in industrialized countries. Vegetables and fruits based Nutri-Garden is the richest source of nutrition and can play an active role in eradicating undernutrition. Vegetables and Nutri-Garden hitch cultivation practices remain an indispensable programme in Tamil Nadu. Production of vegetable and Nutri-Garden crop is an effective strategy that always keeps pace with changing Agri-horticultural ecosystem to the growing demands of consumers for safe and healthy vegetables, fruits, increasing urbanization and demands of time. Vegetable gardening practices for all the months in the schedule will be extremely useful for the vegetable growers, gardeners for doing it in right manner by following the calendar of activities. Establishment of Nutri-Garden helps to build the knowledge of men and women farmers in integrating nutri-rich and biofortified plant species in their existing systems and it was also marketed in the best manner even the unskilled might follow. Scientists have flourishingly brought up this book "Vegetable and Nutri-Garden Practices" in Tamil Nadu to impart knowledge for the scientists, farmers, growers on latest vegetables and Nutri-Garden practices.
Dr. M.S. Aneesa Rani Professor and Head Vegetable Research Station Pular-607102, Cuddalore Dt.
Dr. S. Jaya Prabhavathi Associate Professor (Ento) Regional Research Station Vridhachalam-606001, Cuddalore Dt.
Dr. G. Sathish Assistant Professor (Hort.) Department of Fruit Science Horticulture College and Research Institute Periyakulam East-625 604, Theni Dt.
I. Vegetable Gardening Practices
1. Importance of Vegetable Crops ...................................................... 1
2. Vegetable Gardening Practices for January Month .................... 5
3. Vegetable Gardening Practices for February Month .................. 9
4. Vegetable Gardening Practices for March Month.....................13
5. Vegetable Gardening Practices for April Month .......................15
6. Vegetable Gardening Practices May Month...............................19
7. Vegetable Gardening Practices for June Month ........................23
8. Vegetable Gardening Practices for July Month .........................25
9. Vegetable Gardening Practices for August Month ...................29
10. Vegetable Gardening Practices for September Month..............33
11. Vegetable Gardening Practices for October Month ..................39
12. Vegetable Gardening Practices for November Month..............43
13. Vegetable Gardening Practices for December Month ..............47
II. Establishing Nutri-Garden
14. What is Nutri-Garden? ...................................................................53
15. Why we need Nutri-Garden?........................................................55
16. Principles in Planning Nutri-Garden...........................................57
17. Establishment of Nutri-Garden.....................................................59
18. Propagation by Specialized Plant Parts ......................................67
19. Management Practices of Garden ................................................71
20. Maturity Indices for Important Vegetables ................................95
21. Harvest and Make a Healthy Plate ..............................................99
Conclusion ......................................................................................101
References .......................................................................................103
