For a kitchen garden , a gardener with limited skills and time should consider planting different kinds of pulses and bean seeds. Most other types of seeds do not germinate quickly and the plants do not survive for a long period of time. For example tomato seeds will germinate and grow only during specific times of the year, when the weather is not too warm.

In contrast most of the pulses will germinate fairly quickly and the germination rates of the seeds remain high. Within a month, these plants will flower and beans will be growing in the kitchen garden, which can be used for cooking or replanting. However the seeds are usually smaller the commercially available seeds indicating that some fertilizers are being added.

Compared to other countries a large part of the fresh agro produce, vegetables like brinjals, tomatoes, onions, cucumber, fruits like bananas, papayas, oranges, chikoos, seafood like fish, crabs are wasted due to poor food processing systems and lack of storage facilities which require refrigeration. Firms and individuals providing information, technology, expertise, supplying equipment on how to preserve and can food can send their details for a free listing at canning and preserving. Specifically interested in suppliers of aloe vera processing equipment

Looking for low cost suppliers of different kinds of quality flower seeds for home gardening. More details of the flower seeds required are posted online. Dealers and distributors may also contact with their offers.

It appears that tomato plants flourish when temperature are fairly low. During the first few weeks of 2016, the temperatures in panaji, goa were less than 25 deg C and the tomato plants were blooming, with many yellow flowers.
Now the weather has changed in panaji, goa and the temperatures have increased. No new flowers have been observed on the tomato plant in the last week.
However there is a white fungus/mold like growth on the tomato plant

The tomato plants were grown from seeds a few months ago and took some time to bear flowers
One tomato plant had many flowers, four tomatoes, while another small tomato plant had one tomato. The tomatoes will grow big to their maximum size fairly quickly in a few weeks and are light green in colour.
However they will take a long time to ripen when allowed to remain on the plant taking another two weeks to become red in color.
Ideal for senior citizens, older people who find it difficult to cross roads for daily shopping.

Compared to mumbai, it is far more difficult to purchase plants in Goa as there are almost no shops selling plant supplies in the locality and they are also far more expensive.
So for an experiment a tulsi plant was carried from mumbai to goa in the container it was supplied with. Plastic packaging was used to cover the plant. Due to human rights abuses in Panaji, Goa causing great pain the container was not retrieved immediately .
After nearly 22 hours, the plant was retrieved and it does not seem to be affected by the journey or transportation. So it appears that plants can be transported over a long distance without affecting them. During the next trip more plants will be transported from Mumbai

A major problem with the plants easily locally available in goa are that they are mainly flower plants which only have show value. Most people will pay far more if they can get a vegetable or fruit plant to reduce their shopping bill and time to some extent.
For a change a vendor had lemon plants in stock for sale, which were fairly big and bearing small lemons. However the price quoted remained fairly high at Rs 350 per plant which not many people can afford.
Selling fruit and vegetable plants can be lucrative if they are priced right.

A single tulsi or basil leaf plant in goa will cost at least Rs 30 and they are not easily available as there are no streetside vendors selling items in Goa . On the other hand, there are many roadside vendors selling tulsi and other plants in mumbai and they also inexpensive.

A container with three tulsi plants was costing only Rs 10 in Mumbai while in goa it remains difficult to purchase tulsi plants and other plants locally at a reasonable cost due to the negative attitude towards business owners, who are considered second class citizens

One of the simplest plants or crops to grow at home remains wheat grass. The wheat can be purchased from any store, and sprinkled in a pot with some mud in it. In a few days time, the wheat grass will sprout and grow quite rapidly. The wheat grass can then be cut and used for cooking , chewed to improve health, cure different ailments. The wheat will grow in all weather conditions, even when temperatures are relatively high.
After some time, the wheat grass will wither away if not transplanted to a larger pot. However in some cases, wheat may grow on the plant, and some wheat was observed on a small wheat plant at home.
Anyone interested in wheat grass can send an email to nkinf@hotmail.com

Some time ago, the price of tomatoes had reached Rs 80 per kilo, so growing tomatoes at home in a kitchen garden can be a way to save some money. Tomato flowers are quite small, yellow in color and a typical tomato plant will have at least 15-20 flowers. In Goa, till mid december 2015 the temperatures were fairly high, so the flowers would blossom, wilt and fall off. However in the last week of december the plant was watered regularly, repeatedly and the temperatures also reduced.
Initially one tomato was growing, now another small tomato has grown on the same plant, which is growing in size quite rapidly.
However the first tomato which grew on the tomato plant, seems to be growing very slowly, remains light green in color and also not ripening on the plant.
Photographs of the tomato plant and tomatoes are being taken to keep records