A Series of Lectures By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Former DG Agriculture Extension KPK , Provincial Project Director CMP II MINFAl Islamabad and Visiting Professor the University of Agriculture Peshawar Pakistan

2. Kitchen Gardening Introduction
A Series of Lectures
By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Former DG
Agriculture Extension KPK , Provincial
Project Director CMP II MINFAl
Islamabad and Visiting Professor the
University of Agriculture Peshawar
Pakistan

3. Kitchen Gardening
Introduction
 What is a
vegetable?
 What is a fruit?

4. What is a vegetable?
 A vegetable is typically,
an ________________
plant used for the main
part of a meal.
 A vegetable is defined
by use of the plant part
and not by some
common botanical
characteristic

5. What is a fruit?
 A botanical definition for fruit is the
mature __________________ of the plant,
consisting of the seeds and their
coating
 A more general definition for fruit is the
______________________ part of a plant; the
seed of plants or the part that contains
the seed

6. What is vegetable gardening?
 Gardening is the
___________________
of vegetables (food)
for one’s own
___________________

7. Why do people vegetable
garden?
 Utilitarian reasons
 It is a way to produce
fresh food
 Other reasons
 Utopian reasons
 Gives chance to
control nature
 Other reasons

8. Gardening philosophies
 Approaches range
from organic
approaches to
“________________”
approaches

9. Organic gardening
 The are a variety of ways to define
 The underlying approach

An approach to gardening that relies on natural
_______________ and soil process to produce
vegetables and manage ________________

Key on:
 Natural community processes
 Soil biological activity

10. Organic Gardening
Define by what practices are used:
 Crop rotation
 Crop __________________
 Composts
 Animal manures
 Legumes
 ______________ manures
 Mechanical tillage

11. Organic Gardening
Define by what does not
use:
 Synthetic fertilizers
 Synthetic __________
 Growth regulators

12. Synthetic Gardening
Uses synthetic (man-made) chemicals to
supply the ________________ requirements
of the vegetables and uses synthetic
___________________ to control pests

13. Organic vs. Synthetic Gardening
Which method is best?
There is __________
general agreement.