Common vegetables to grow at your home garden

1. Ridge Gourd

Known as angled loof / Luffa acuntangula, Ridge Gourd is grown through out the year by seeds or transplanting.  Its hard dark green fruit is eaten as vegetable. Ridge Gourd’s health benefits include high fiber and water content, rich in vitamines, blood purifier etc. It is locally called by these names –  turai (Hindi), Beerakai (Telugu) , Peerkangai (Tamil)

2.  Beet Root

Beet root (Beta vulgaris) is crimson red root vegetable. Its tap root are used as vegetable. It can be grown any season in the year through seeds.

3. Bitter Gourd

Popularly know as Karela, Bitter Gourd is grown through seeds through out the year. It’s juice is very good for the body.  Check out its detailed growing tips here –

4. Brinjal

Another popular vegetable in Indian cuisine, known as Baingan in Hindi. Eggplant, Aubergines are some of its other names. It is also very easy to grow and take care. Its color ranges from purple, white to green yellowish white. This vegetable’s growing technique can be checked outhere.

5. Potato

Known as Aloo in Hindi, Potato is world’s most home grown plant. It is a tuber type vegetable means food is stored in tuber shaped roots. Best season to cultivate potato is October to March. Potato is grown through potato seeds which are small sized potato parts having at least one eye (growing point) on them. If you are planning to grow potato at your place then check out this post.

6. Tomato

Tomato / Tamatar is used to enhance the taste of food. It can be grown easily in container/pot in balcony or roof top through seeds in any season of the year. Here is its detailed growing technique.

7. Beans

Bean ( Vigna sesquipedalis ) is another popular vegetable grown through out the years from seeds. Its long, green to red fruit is used as vegetable.

 

8. Pumpkin

Popularly called as Kaddu, is very good for health. Pumpkin is very rich in fibre, vitamins like A,K,C and minerals (iron, magnesium, potasium). It is cultivated through out the year with seeds.