Saturday, January 18, 2014

Fresh weekend - Rainy doha

Its been a great weekend after a long time. What I mean is a cool weather , no cooking , and u know what's next , yeah it gardening time.

Woke up at 630 am fed little h and wanted to sleep, when dh said lets eat out , don't need to cook this afternoon ,relax. Wohoo , my sleep went off woke up fresh LOL brushed fast and went to my comfort place , my backyard where my plants are.. ok so I decide to clean up the place . Picked all the dried plants , dead plants etc . Replaced pots with  soil etc took me a solid 2 hour . H woke up and I went back to ma routine .

As dh said we had a great lunch , came back for a quick dress change , and went for a movie .The rains had done the rest of the job. Cleant the plants from the dust and pest.

Next day my weekend starts with usual routine , and my BIL Gandhi  comes up with an idea of growing broccoli , lol American broccoli ..don't know what difference it makes ...

Was imagining Harirams broccoli so fresh , o yeah another great green thumb in OTG.

He was also teasing that we don't have to go for shopping vegges later since we are progressing in growing some vegges that we consume.hmm thou that's a long way through, but its good if we can self sustain. Just imagine picking up greens when you want , all fresh...

Ok so in the afternoon when I had a world war two, to put my little one to sleep and didn't succeed ..decided at-least we can sow some seeds. He'll enjoy some open air play time.

H was driving cars and me sowing brinjal, long-yard beans , winged beans , moringa , chilli, bitter gourd , and lastly Bil's wishlist of broccoli .. but an Indian one ...guess he doesn't know that the production rates of this vegge is around 32 % in India and just 3 % in America .. FYI _ And that's one of the vegges I haven't cooked so far ..need to search recipes now ..

Google guru said that broccoli is a good detoxifying vegge , a family of cabbage and it had a ton of Vitamin C and fiber , good for eyes , skin blah blah .. whatever the reason is, thou it also says that it needs a cool climate with rich soil etc , i had sown seeds and left it to the nature to take it up and the eating part left it to BIL and some pests when it grows ..

Drops of rain and we rushed in...hoping the rest will grow soon.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Sharing is Caring !

Thinking how to get some good seeds from India , so i can see my beautiful Qatar being green - of course not the whole part - but they say drops of water make a ocean, LOL quotes right yah !So here i am thinking how to sustain and go green in Qatar by working in my little space at the backyard , thaaaada OTG and people !  put a quick post asking if someone could help .And there she goes Aparna george raising her helping hands ! 

Was happy to see the post , trust me i didn't expect someone sending seeds all the way from indian to qatar expecting nothing ! Dam do such people still exist ? I forgot about that post later ...managed to get some seeds and started growing the possible vegetables available in Qatar.

New year i get another message saying that she will send seeds and she got ma address , frankly speaking i was over excited , but calmed down ,thinking if it will reach here, because when my marriage invitation was sent by a courier by my parents to Dh , it took a whole two months and by then i was married and i was settled here , Dh teases me always .

Here you go , surprise - Dh calls and says there's a parcel ! and your seeds are here ! I didn't believe thought he was teasing me - asked him to send a pic .Wohooo right on time , its going to be weekend and guess what, ill be in a seed mode again !