For a good health it is important to eat fresh and green vegetable which must be free from insect pests as well as pesticides residue. We can be sure about these if we grow the vegetables in our kicthen garden by sowing good seed, providing organic manure and kitchen waste and water - that all. No need to provide chemical fertilizer, insecticide, fungicides, viricides, bactericides, or weed killer.

Choose healthy seeds of a good variety and treat them with Tricoderma/vitavex etc. You can improve your soil condition by tilling the soil with sped and shovel after few days of light irrigation. First tillage is done at sowing time, second after 25 - 35 days aiming to bound the stem, eradicate the weeds and improve the soil physical conditions. Third or more tillage may be required as per type of vegetable grown. Soil application of bio-fertilzers such as tricoderma, farm yard manure, neem cake, oil cakes and kitchen waste all are good for kitchen gardening . All these are from the natural source and moreover it has the food in the right balanced quantities. Insect pests and diseases are well managed by applying slurry of cow dung, urine, wood ash, extracts of neem seed, garlic, chillies etc which are economic as well as safer. Remember that all insects are not pest some are beneficial, identify them and don't panic.

The detailed package of practices for aforesaid vegetables will be available to you within a short period.