bottle gardening: one of the best way to tackcle Plastic pollution

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BOTTLE GARDENING
Bottle Gadrdening refers to the process of planting plants either in plastic or glass bottle for different purpose like decoration,consumption etc.Here in this article we will discuss on cultivation practice of bottle gardening in plastic bottles.Bottle gardening can be used for the plantation of different types of shallow rotted plants vegetables, flowers,grasses etc. Crop like Onion, garlic , corriander etc can be succesfully grown.























Main Objectives
Reuse of the old ,torn out plastic bottle which are usually thrown out.
Grow useful plant either indoor or outdoor
Save enviromental degradation as plastic is non degradable.
For the decoration of garden wall.
In order to eat organic vegetables.
Requirement for bottle gardening
Old (porous) torn out plastic bottle (may be mineral water bottle, cold drink bottles etc)
seed materials for plant
fertile soil
scissor
Steps for bottle gardening
For bottle gardening at first we need to prepare bottle by cutting with knife of different size hole according to our plant in order to grow  plant.
After that soil is prepared .for the best combination would be  40%garden soil + 40% cocopit+ 20% vermicompost if they are not avilable then soil can be mixed with sand and small pore is made at the bottom of the bottle to prevent water lodging.
Now proper seed material for different plant is selected and planted like for onion bulb is palnted , for garlic cloves are planted , for corriander seed are selected etc. These seed material  are sown in bottle soil and are covered with soil too.
Proper care and mangement is required like cuttin onion stem if it grows long, proper water management.
      Hence in this bottle gardening of differnt plant can be done .
                                                                                                                                  GAURAV THAKUR
                                                                                                                                 BSC.Ag 3rd yr
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