Seede Backyard

What a Friday, this turns out to be .. Guess my backyard is the place where I could behold my emotions. After a period of togetherness with my co-sister , my pals going away back to her nest . Wishing her all the good .

Started planting the left over spinach stems, carrot seeds, sunflower, kanagambara ,tulsi .

Guess all plants will talk back for what reason I planted one day .

Updating plants as of Sep 02 (After 12 days of initial planting ) - in fact they are talking to me back , they look as fresh as my thouts .Have a look .

Sunflower

Some Carrot sprouting up ,
one of the larger pots have some plant coming up from compost 

Tulisi sprouted from the seeds mom kept for me ,
plus extra plant from compost.

kanagambara

Height's Of Ginger !

Yesterday One of my colleage turned up getting me some Parsel from Bangalore , First time Navratri Bomai that Mom sent throu . After the Little excitement for a new venture that i would take up during Dasara , wanted to share this Joy .

Went to my backyard and was checking what to grow, And yes , i remembered , the little Ginger poping up in my Fridge. 

Was digging the soil at 10 PM and chiya came out - its heights of ginger , come in and get back to sleep . Planted just below the surface of the soil, Forgot to soak it thou - lets see whats nature gonna give back thou .

Post update - 16 Sep 2013 - Almost 1 month after the initial post .

Its taking all its sweet time to pop up and say Hi . A complete one month to have a couple of  true leaves .

Coriander Friday .

Fridays are days that I wake up late take my sweet time and enjoy the weekend, today couldn't sleep after 5 am ,  energy to plant some more. 

Since couldn't have patience to see my garden grow,told you before got a couple of them from the nursery to give me some motivation. One of it was the Thechi poo , planted it and couldn't stop.

Had a pack of the coriander that I purchased from the family food centre before , planting coriander for the first time , opened that pack...ha it's normal daniya seeds , why did I have to spend qr 450 ? Have a lot of it at home for cooking ...don't know if it's the same thou..guess need to germinate them , not sure. Ok so I plant these seeds ...

Now got to wait and see how these little ones will come up, jeez I want them grow tomorrow .

    Coriander Friday ....








Updating As of Nov 19 - The above didn't grow.

Im going to try the store bought coriander which is available locally in the Indian super market .ill be Splitting them before sowing, just rubbing them in between my palms and that should do I guess. Need to check my growing media as well. Ill keep you updated .

It’s Okra Time

Okra / Ladies finger  - it is among the most heat- and drought-tolerant vegetable species  and will tolerate soils with heavy clay and intermittent moisture but frost can damage the pods – that’s the info that I got on the Google.

So what I did was got some seeds from the Floranaza Nursery located in Wakra near the Qtel roundabout, costed me around 4.50 QR.

Sowed all the seeds in a pot, around the end of June .

Since it was fighting for space, I transplanted it , when it has some leafs around the mid of July 

Transplanted on July 10 - 2013

Being a beginner and seeing the plants droop , lost hope and posted my first post in OTG , Many experts ,I would say, gave their comments .. Most of them did say the plant will pull up and don’t watch the pot boiling now!

So true it’s been a month now and I can say transplant works – Just add a bit of sugar water and make sure you don’t expose the roots to much of air and iyaṟkai (nature) will take care.

Still Growing - Aug 14 - 2013

Saw some lovely pearl /dew drop/sweats like thingy on the leaves – made me panic– so many people posting insects attack, this deficiency, that deficiency etc

 Don’t do anything its just making some changes, natural secretions from the okra plant through glands on the leaves and stems. This is a natural process of the plant and causes no damage. Leave it alone.

Okra Sweat's As you Sweat its normal !

But be careful not to brush too much against the plant or you’d have to deal with itchy skin.

Sep 01 2013 , first flowers blooming ...

Not a clear pic thou :) Need to develop some photographic Skills 

Oct 07 - After almost 6 to 10 flowers bloom - one of the okras seems to show 
up . That's when i get the whole concept , when it blooming , add the cows 
manure or some feed .
It took 3 months to grow from the initial sowing.

Hats of to the farmers who grow vegges in abundance , every time i say no to 
vegges while i eat , ill think of the patience , sweat , handwork , it took for the
farmers to grow each one of them ... 

My First Plants on Qatari Boomi

It’s been Eid , holidays - expected to get some time and do some gardening, But the painting work was pending in the backyard and Chiya was asking me to do it post the painting .

Didn't have patience – and started planting my very auspicious and loving plantain (last day of Eid -12/Aug/2013)

I was lucky got a plantain pub for 25 QR from the Paradise Nursery   few days back (planted it in the plastic trolley) and nature had given me another Pub , De-Pubed it and planted it successfully on the ground.

Baby Plantain

De-Pubed from the Baby Plantian

The painter turned up and had to cover the plants to avoid the nasty paints on my baby plants.

One of the little pubs were burnt in the scorching heat of Qatar and turned pale, crossing my fingers for the little one to grow. My soul parted seeing it turn pale. The other one seems to survive.

:( fingers crossed to see some miracle 

Transplanted the Bitter gourd plant which turned up near the plantain also – had some helpers (stick) around it – it looked pale also – added some sugar solution while transplanting .

Boomi giving me a surprise, Woke up this morning to see the Gourd taking the help of the bamboo stick

Gourd from the kitchen waste - Transplanted

Bamboo sticks got from the Omani souk QR 4 /per stick, Purchased around 10, each five feet long, some cut short to 2 feet, Lots of shops and we got to bargain – he said it was 8 riyals! And gave it half the price!  

These are small things being in India, but in Qatar it’s worth a note for sticks, stones anything isn't it! You know.

Gardening Experience in Qatar !

Jack of all trades, master of none , Here i go with a new experience .

Laid my hands in so many things to keep myself busy , but nothing so far have kept me feel complete ! My list after marriage would be sewing, Arabic classes, Yoga, belly dancing , swimming, Harivenkit website and list will go on. My husband (sri will refer as Chiya in my rest of the post ) stands with me for all this ! 

Got to See the OTG site on Facebook and my craze for gardening and growing vegetables have started ! 

Thankfully moving to a new house with more space for gardening allows me to do so .

My backyard is full of gravels and i started off with some pots for the time being , planted okra, tomato's , and Chiya agreed to get me a banana pub !

Gravel full backyard - pic before work .

Now its time to change the gravels in to a good safe garden so i can have Hari(Son) help me.

H is a active baby and is helpful in everything , he is just 3 and it amazes me to see ,how helpful he is .The liltte pots that you see  ,H helped me with it - Adding potting soil ,water ,planting - A good experience .

Started of work at the backyard , met the helpers, asked they to lay the concrete in a L DESIGN ,work started off at 3:30 in the morning since its Ramadan and ended up at 10:30 ,it was a saturday 3/Aug/2013 .

Work has completed after 3 days - concrete laid, soil(clay) with camel manure mix , added the green shade to avoid the scorching heat in Qatar ! 

This is how it looks ! 

Clearing gravel - pic after work.

Charges for the work : 2600 QR

(2000 for the concrete and soil etc , 600 for the labor for the shade - he excluded the work for the pipe he layed outside )

The walls are a bit dirty - he agreed to paint it ! 

Need to find time to plant the seeds that Appa purchased Amaranthus , Gelosia Mix, Aster Dwarf, Sunflower, Kanakambra , balsam 

from lalbhag . Just a word and its here  !

Chiya got me more seeds carrot ,coriander,watermelon ! 

I'm blessed with the people around . Appa ,Chiya ,H ....

PS: Its my first blog , with N Ramakrishnan inspiration ! hoping to continue ! i'm saying this because of the first liners in my blog !