The Sri Lanka Home Garden Guide

Buying this book is one of the best investments you can make. The Sri Lanka Home Garden Guide has a wealth of information. The knowledge within this book applies to all tropical countries. Learn the tricks to make an efficient garden while getting the best aerobic exercise. Learn what you can grow in a limited space and the fruit and vegetables that are filled with vitamins and minerals. You can do it for yourself and your family. Become more self-sufficient, generate better health, and save money. Beat inflation, reduce your grocery costs without sacrificing nutrition, and reduce your personal stress level by enjoying your home garden.The Sri Lanka Home Garden Guide explains expert techniques to grow over 200 vegetables, herbs, fruits, roots, nuts, and various trees in your home garden. Each garden vegetable and fruit have easy step-by-step instructions to produce quality, nutritious, fresh foods.. Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years. - Unknown. The first section of The Sri Lanka Home Garden Guide teaches anyone can create a basic, traditional garden with time-proven, inexpensive techniques, construct a grow box, and/or grow some food in containers on your porch or balcony, or hanging from a fence or wall. Sri Lanka has 1340 kilometers of coastline and an average elevation of 230 meters. Almost anything will grow and thrive within its shores.. The chapters teach to sprout seeds, how and when to transplant, garden with the phases of the moon, irrigation, fertilizers, and methods to grow crops in the dry and the rainy seasons, balance your soil's pH, and create compost. Although organic gardening is the best method, information about chemical deterrents and spraying is included.. The Sri Lanka Home Garden Guide is written for both the beginner and the experienced gardeners. Gardening is a continuing education and the next garden will always be better. As you become a dedicated gardener, you will become healthier and happier with more money in your pocket. . To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.~ Mahatma Gandhi. After describing various types of gardens, the other sections of The Sri Lanka Home Garden Guide details how to grow and use more than 200 various herbs, fruits, vegetables, beans, leafy greens, roots, nuts, vines, grasses, and trees. Every following chapter outlines a specific food, its origin with its history, tips on growing, nutritional value, homeopathic medicinal uses, simple, inexpensive recipes, interesting trivia, and its botanical/scientific name with how it's known in other countries.. We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. ~ Wendell Barry. Everyone, every family, can grow something, grow closer to each other, and grow closer to nature. This book's appendage contains a comprehensive calorie and nutrition guide that demonstrates what vegetables provide the best protein and various vitamins and the most minerals. It includes a comprehensive list of natural Ayurvedic-homeopathic medicinal therapies and describes how to make an herbal poultice, tea, salve, or a tincture. Sri Lanka is historically famous for growing herbs and spices used in Sri Lanka's equally famous Ayurvedic - homeopathic medicine. The very detailed glossary explains agricultural, nutritional, chemical, and medical terminologies. The essential vitamins and minerals necessary for good health are listed and defined.This garden book is our personal, minuscule attempt to help our planet's fragile environment survive. When you create a home garden, you reconnect with our fragile nature. Now, do your part.. My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer. ~ Brenda Schoepp