The main secret of growing food at home is the medium you use in your pots. Never use garden soil for this. Start with a simple mixture of dry leaves and cow dung manure, and then keep layering it with more dry leaves and more manure over time. This keeps the medium soft and allows the roots to grow faster and pass on the required nutrition quickly to the plant to start fruiting. Hard soil doesn’t allow that and that’s why most home gardeners get disappointed with their efforts.

Growing strawberries at home is not difficult at all. Prepare the medium as suggested in one of the videos and fill grow bags to produce organic fruits without any chemicals. Strawberry plants don’t need much sunshine and if you have space on your balcony or terrace, Oct – Jan is the best season to start planting and start getting your fruits for the season. Each plant can give you at least 10-12 fruits during the season.

Don’t use soil to grow plants at home! Just use dry leaves and manure mix and keep topping it up with more dry leaves and manure in turn regularly. This will keep your plants happy and healthy all seasons. Soil pots can hold water and also capture diseases easily! Dry leaves and manure medium keeps it soft and your plant roots are always happy to grow without any friction.

It is quite easy to grow fruits in pots at home. Once the tree starts growing, you may have to keep shifting it to bigger pots for more growth and more harvest. When we transfer to another pot, we don’t need to add any more soil, instead we can just use dry leave to fill the additional space and add natural fertilizer for the growth of the tree. This is a real organic way.

This short video demonstrates how by just adding dry leaves you can protect your terrace pots from summer heat and keep them cool. This also helps you save water. The added leaves convert into manure in the process and it works in every which way for your plants.