Cleaning,Pruning and weeding out

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." 

Mahatma Gandhi

Last month got a chance to clean one corner patch in our garden. This corner hosted one lone chilli plant that had come on its own and even gave 4-5 chillies. There were a couple of volunteer manathakali(black nightshade berries) plants too nearby it.But the residing ant colony in this corner never let the plants be at peace. And later on it became like this..

It was high time this corner get cleaned and prepared for the upcoming season.When I started cleaning it, I found this Veli mul(Prosopis juliflora) which is the most-hated weed on my list. In my opinion, this weed should be removed from all of our lands.It is very invasive and drinks water aplenty and does nothing good for the prosperity of the land. And so it was vengefully pulled up from the ground.

Then there was this good fortune of finding dried seed pods from the plants that you have grown. Than the seeds bought from the shop, the seeds obtained in this natural way is more effective and leads to good growth.

The seed pods that I found was completely dried and so they were duly collected and preserved straight away.

I will soon show a picture of what the cleaned up corner is currently hosting. Await this space.

On the other end, the December flower (Barleria) bush has stopped flowering by May and so they were trimmed and bound together neatly.

Since they are hedge plants they would survive well when tied together. Upcoming months will be used up by the plant to put in good growth and sturdy stems to start flowering in the winter.

A glimpse of the beetroots

Its actually more like a glimpse of the beetroot foliage to be honest. One of our favorite vegetable to eat is beetroot and more than the roots I like the leaves. The beet leaves taste delicious when they are made into a stir fry. 

Our first attempt to grow beetroots from the seeds bought from the Sunday market resulted in a naught. Not one seed germinated despite waiting almost for a month. Beetroots have the reputation of slow germination rate but a month is the maximum time to expect them to germinate.

Then we resorted to the brand company seeds and within five days all the seeds sprouted. But I made a big mistake of transplanting a few saplings when they were almost a month old. This decision to transplant was taken due to over crowding of the saplings in the pot but the transplantation was not a success.

Most of the transplanted saplings died or the ones that survived stayed the same size even after many days. Lesson learned and will be carried on to the next seasons.


The ones that were not transplanted are healthy and going strong.

The roots are beginning to form.









It is not yet time to pull the roots, but I am eager to harvest the leaves to make the stir fry. 

A glorious ball of Sunshine

From a tiny seed to this..

..time and again nature's proof that nobody can beat it at its game.