Grow your own vegetables and live healthy!

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MSB’s experimental ‘Square Foot’ garden is now yielding a regular crop of tomatoes, herbs, okra, spinach, turnips and beans!
Square Foot gardening is an intensive cultivation method specifically suited to small urban spaces, that maximizes crop yield in the minimum amount of space

We’ve used recycled wood crates, a lightweight, water-retentive coco-compost based soil mix and a completely organic set of pest repellents and fertilizers.

Tags: Grow your own vegetables, kitchen gardens, MySunnyBalcony, Square foot gardeing, square foot garden

Permalink | Comments (14) | February 20, 2011

14 comments on “Grow your own vegetables and live healthy!”

1. Madhur on March 1, 2011 at 5:01 am said:

   Great to read up on the square foot gardening concept. Do you also have these wooden crates for sale? I have always wanted to grow vegetables, but the whole process of going hunting for these accessories, soil, medicines is painful and i give up on the idea..
2. Andrew A. Sailer on March 1, 2011 at 11:31 pm said:

   Thanks for sharing these kind of wonderful threads. As you all already know, it is practically gardening season again! And I really don’t know about you, but I am fired up. As I prepare to get my own vegetable garden growing, I have found a excellent all new guidebook that I wanted to pass down to every body. It’s called, “Your Beautiful Garden: Gardening Advice and Tips for Everyone.” What an awesome powerful resource. This is definitely the type of book that is going to remain with you for many years to come. Go on and find out about it right here: Gardening, composting, rose gardens and more! Go there now!
3. chandan on March 3, 2011 at 2:00 am said:

   very interesting

   recently i missing our vegetables which we used to grow

   after started building our home other portion
4. Karishma on March 16, 2011 at 12:28 am said:

   your work is so truly inspiring! love your concept of mysunnybalcony and the projects you have been working on!!
5. Sheeja Krishnan on July 3, 2011 at 11:16 am said:

   I am new to terrace gardening and would love to start my own kitchen garden. Can I come and visit you guys at your new home and will you be able to help me? I come to IISc daily and anytime between 9am to 5pm is fine with me.
6. Priya Anand on July 15, 2011 at 1:55 am said:

   Very interesting. Ive grown tomatoes, chillies, capsicum and bitter gourd in my balcony with decent results. I like the wooden crates – where and how can I buy them also the compost based soil mix and the organic pest repellents, fertilizers etc. Also do you provide training on growing vegetables and setting up a balcony garden. I am a greehorn who recently started gardening, would love some tips on gardening
7. sumi on July 31, 2011 at 6:04 am said:

   Read about you in the papers and its been inspiring. Its so good to see so many pics on your website. keep up the good work
8. Deepti on March 1, 2012 at 3:49 pm said:

   Hi,

   This is a great blog with amazing pictures. Congratulations ….I do grow a couple of veggies and flowers on my sunny terrace……
   So, this will be a good blog to follow….:)
9. divya on March 6, 2012 at 8:26 pm said:

   Hi,
   Lovely site and even more lovely gardens you ‘ve there. Congratulations on the good work.

   I am totally new to gardening and am very interested in owning one…. I have a 15 feet x 30 feet terace area with loads of sun light, looking out from my family room, upstairs and i would love to convert it into a garden. I would like to build a vegie cum flower/green garden which requires minimal maintanance and I ‘ve no clue how to begin. I tried tomatoes in a pot and the plant grew a foot tall and the leaves seem to be drying up now I ‘ve no clue what went wrong. My queires are:
   1. Do you conduct any classes? I would love to make the garden myself.
   2. Do you sell all the requirements/accessaries to build a garden?
   3. When would be a good time to drop in to visit your nursery?
10. sarita on March 27, 2012 at 5:15 pm said:

    i have a backyard. 250sq ft. for the next 5 to 6 months, i get sunlight their. So i want to do veg gardening. What are the vegs which will grow faster. Please tell me how to go about it.
11. prasanna on April 20, 2012 at 2:38 pm said:

    Hi,

    I want to grow my own vegetables like tomata, spinach leafy vegetables, lady finger, turnips etc.. in my small balcony of 4ft x 6ft leaving space for walking in between. could you give me some suggestion as i get plenty of light

    Thank you
    prasanna
12. admin on May 11, 2012 at 11:45 am said:

    Thanks Deepti!
13. admin on May 11, 2012 at 11:51 am said:

    Dear Divya,

    Your tomatoes probably need to be pollinated. When flowers appear, shake the plant gently so that the pollen from one flower falls on another. Blooms are likely to appear only around late spring/summer.
    1. Yes we do, we’ll keep you updated on the schedule
    2. We’re trying to! We’re opening a garden shop in Ulsoor, Bangalore starting next week. You’re welcome to drop in anytime.
    3. We are a garden accessories and landscaping company and do not have a nursery. However, we tie up with a large number of responsible local nurseries to source plants for our projects and for the shop.
14. admin on May 11, 2012 at 12:25 pm said:

    Do check out our Square-foot vegetable crates Prasanna. You can email us on msbstore@mysunnybacony.com or more details