Weekend @ the Nursery

I did exactly what I have been planning on doing for the last few weeks. Go to the nursery., buy veggi seeds and a couple of flower seeds and plant away for weeks. Ahhh!

Here's my haul at the local nursery. I also bought a sprinkler.... Just like that.

My Flowers- to- be

Vegetable Delights

Im not quite sure what kind of bean this one is...

Or this.... Its a native vegetable here and I only know the local name which is ' Gavar'

Isn't this a pretty sight?

More Garden Central

This is a new bed I'm preparing for the Leeks. I have to transplant them and it's way too hot to place them anywhere except under the shade. This area is always covered, always damp and at least 5 degrees cooler than anywhere else in the garden. The mulberries keep dropping to the ground and I don't bother to remove them because they decompose and act as natural compost . Also, all the clippings and dead leaves I remove from the other house plants, I dump on top of the soil. It acts as mulch, I haven't gotten any weeds in the last couple of months!

, This was an experiment gone wrong. A plastic pedestal , which totally killed all the mint I planted. I'm just going to use it for regular flowering plants now.

My Baby Papaya tree!

The sun is wreaking havoc on my plants. This applies even for the Chillies which love sun. :(

My grand Mulberry tree. Provides beautiful shade and nice fat fruit twice a year.

Preparing pots with compost.... an experiment

This is a bit unconventional, but since I'm still experimenting , I guess it's okay. So I had bought these cement pots ages ago and had a lovely underwater ecosystem flourishing, complete with fish, underwater plants and snails... but despite the thermostat, nothing survived the winter.
So, I decided to use them for my gardening.

What I did was, I used the shells from when I had the fish to line the base....hoping it will act like gravel.

Then , I put in a layer of all the dead leaves and cuttings and vegetable scraps from the kitchen, that we would normally use for compost. I also tend to put in used tea bags before I put the soil, especially for tomatoes, chillies and other Nitrogen loving plants.

Lastly, I put in soil. Planted the seeds, watered it just a bit and that was that!

Organic Me

Finally, pictures of my organic garden!
Enjoy....

Lemon Grass

Leeks

Onions

Celery

Curry leaves... The tree

Organic spread sheet

So this is my excel sheet for all the veggies im growing or going to grow. Have a look.