2 - I planted beans but I didnt know that these were the climber variety so I made some home-made supports, will see how long it lasts!
3 - some tomatoes have started to ripen
4 - shows the whole plot - I have thakkali, kathrikkaai, pacha milagai, koda milagai, carrots, beans and kaaramana mexican pacha milagai.
போகுற போக்க பார்த்தா இந்திய காய்கறிகள் கடையே போட்டுடலாம் போல் இருக்கு...இன்னும் பீர்க்கை, முருங்கை, கீரை எல்லாம் போட நிறைய இடம் இருக்கே...களைகள் இல்லாம சுத்தமா இருக்கிறதா பார்த்தால் உன்னுடைய அல்லது பிலிப்புடைய உழைப்பு நன்றாக தெரிகிறது.... வாழ்த்துக்கள்...
பதிலளிநீக்குகரையான்.
Yes - kaaikari kadai would be nice. Well I actually go to the Farmer's market here that lasts for 2 months on saturdays where one can get fresh veggies and it is local produce. I like to support the local farmers and get good organic food. I wish I could have drumstick and peerkangaai and some keerai. The growing season is so short here - 3 months only so I go crazy every year. Philip dug the garden and his cousin built the fence but the planting, watering fertilizer treatment, building support and weeding is all my work. Thank goodness we have the fence or the rabbits and ground hogs will eat all the leaves. In addition to the main 100 sqft that the picture shows above, on the side by our back porch I have a 33 sq feet plot that I am growing cucumbers and zucchini squash - a variety of podalangaai family and more tomatoes and yesterday the rabbit got both the plants. The cucumber plant has no leaves! So now I am going to put some chicken wire around that. I love gardening, it is very relaxing, I can play in the mud for hours at a time!
பதிலளிநீக்குGujili
கடவுள் எனும் முதலாளி கண்டெடுத்த தொழிலாளி விவசாயி பாடல் நினைவுக்கு வருகிறது. வாழ்த்துக்கள் ....நமது ஊர் பெரு நகரங்களில் மண்ணே தெரியாத அளவிற்கு floor tiles மறைக்கிற வீட்டின் வெளிப்புறங்கள் இருக்க தொட்டிகளில் மட்டுமே செடிகள் தழைக்கிறது .இன்னும் கொடுமை வீட்டிற்குள் வாஸ்து மூங்கில் செடிகள் ரெண்டு inch உயரம் தேமே என்று ஒரு மூலையில் நிறைய வீடுகளில் காணக் கிடைக்கிறது .பார்த்தீனியம் செடிகள் மட்டும் கோடைக் காலத்தில் கூட பசுமையாய் எங்கும் விரிந்து வளர்கிறது அதிசயமாய் இருக்கிறது
பதிலளிநீக்குChocks
Gujili,
பதிலளிநீக்குYou must try hydroponic gardening. Lot of them available on youtube. I want to try this for fodder production. You can use the simple ones. Now in chennai terrace gardening is picking up. Many people are into it. Also try fig(aththi maram), i have one at home it keeps producing fruits 6 months a year.
karaiyan.
I agree with Karaiyaan.
பதிலளிநீக்குOn a recent trip to Chennai , I set out of my house to do the rounds of my relatives’ houses, as one is expected to do on such visits. At the house of one aunt, I enquired politely after the health of the flower garden in her front yard. “This is nothing,” she said, before grabbing me by the hand and leading me up the stairs behind the house. “The best things are here now,” she declared when we had reached the back terrace. On the cramped terrace lay 25 white sacks filled with fresh amaranthus, green chillies, tomatoes, brinjal, ladies’ fingers and green beans. “Try my vegetables,” my aunt said. “After that, your Doha vegetables won’t suit you.”
My aunt’s pet project had always been her flower garden; this passion for homegrown vegetables was new. But she wasn’t alone—I found that everyone I visited either had a vegetable garden, or was planning to start one. Vegetable plants had even become a hot topic of conversation, their growth, health and, sometimes, death discussed with the kind of excitement usually reserved for the rise and fall of gold prices.
In the last few years, these gardens appear to have become commonplace.
Bhai.
Thanks folks for all your comments. Space is not a restriction for me and we don't have flat roofs in our part of the snow. Due to the snow, the roof has to be pitched, so a terrace is out of the question. Indoor gardening with a greenhouse is done by farmers here and one of our professors in graduate school had it. Another issue is light. In the winter we barely get 6-7 hrs of day light with the sun hardly making an appearance. One will have to use grow lights and then it becomes more work than a hobby. During the summer we get 13-16 hrs of sun light so one can maximize the growing season. Hydroponic gardening is a great idea, but light is an issue 7-8 months out of the year.
பதிலளிநீக்குGujili
In hydroponics u can use the uv lights/ordinary light, not expensive. I agree that it is time consuming.
பதிலளிநீக்குKaraiyan.