And some bad news
Finally, the garden was giving back the reward of all the hard work done in November. If you have seen my last post, it was a lot of work to get the garden to this stage. And they ( the trees) have not disappointed at all. So let me take you through a photographic journey of how they reached here. This is how they started flowering.
As you can see, I could not get rid of the insects completely, and as I went away to my native for some time, they took advantage and tried to conquer. But after I came back, took a serious note and started feeding the tree well by preparing the organic Jeevamruta. I had been long searching for a right place to get the right cow dung that should have full of bacteria. And I found out a permanent solution though its a little far.
You always learn from experience - after tying out several places nearby and consulting the experts, I figured out the manure of the cow eating grass is most suitable. And the nearby places from where I was getting the manure was not very effective for that reason - they were barely getting grass. By chance someone came to ask to give milk and then after inquiring about the details, I figured out to try this few times and see if it always works. So far, its 3/3 - lovely growth of bacteria.
And see how the impact is.
Yay, they have discovered the place - our guests - honeybees have started coming. It gives so much pleasure to see this - the fulfillment of rewards for all the hard work.
As I said in my earlier post, I never thought, it would come this far after a rough start to the season. But its all rewards of that extra love to find out the right food for them. And when I was in my native, Mom asked to bring some rose plants so that she could plant them later. But knowing that, it will be a bit difficult for her, I brought and planted three.
Hopefully, they will grow well. Also prepared a mini bed for her to have coriander leaves.
The plants are not growing very well there, I did took the Jeevamruta and applied when I went this week.
While coming back I could not resist bringing few plants as there were some pots lying unused in the balcony. Yet to recover from the pain but as they say some habits never go away or may be Aadat se majboor(आदत से मजबूर).
And now some heart breaking bad news - today morning I was informed to remove all the plants from the roof top immediately. Upon asking I came to know that there was a general body meeting on the day of my accident and a it was decided to not allow any plantation on roof top here after and remove everything ASAP, so that they can carry out some maintenance work. They had circulated the notice in pdf format in the whatapp group, but I missed it and yesterday was the last day. Unfortunately, I did not know and even I went and brought the cow manure today and prepared the fertilizer. I even paid some amount to that person today and asked her to buy a new bucket to keep the cow urine clean. This came as a shocker. Plants of one other flat were being taken out - apparently she has bought a new duplex home where she is shifting them.
This made me panic and I went and met the Supervisor and asked if anything can be done. He said for the time being, I can keep them in our front park and use some place. But I have to get it removed - no one will be allowed. I have asked him to help by providing some assistance to bring them down - so this makes an end to my roof top gardening.
As of writing this, I am not sure, how it will end up in the ground - worst case, I may move them all to my native. But I will give a last try to see if I can make a small fence (if they allow) and continue doing the gardening. Should have some update by next week - my wife and son are trying to cool down me in every possible way - you can imagine my state.
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