Garden Affair : Autumn Harvest

 Autumn Season is a transition season in my garden as winters will  be arriving shortly and monsoon season has  just  passed  thereby there is  drop in temperature consequently which is favorable for collecting harvest of summer and monsoon. 

Harvest season in my region here in the Northern India  is observed  majorly two times in  a year i. e.  Spring and Autumn , the summer and monsoon grown are ready for harvest and are available  till the end of Autumn season. 

Lemons are ready for harvest after prolonged monsoon season 

                                                             

Colocasia or Taro root is a  tuberous vegetable its leaves and tube is prepared to make delectable curry or even for snacks.                                                                                                                                     

Colocasia ready for harvest 

Eggplants are omnipresent throughout the year in my garden 

The hard pruning did wonder to the   pomegranate bush this year 

It is the beginning of Tomato season 

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Garden Affair : Summer Harvest

                 Summer season is taking a backseat as Monsoon rains are about to arrive in some couple of days. While it will take some time to bring back greenery in garden which will be only possible after a good downpour . The silver lining is the spring grown veggies are all ready to harvest.                                           

                                                                                 Lady Finger   

                                                                 Tomatoes

Green Chillies

Capsicum

                                                                    Cucumber 

Brinjal 

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Harvesting season

 The spring is reaching its end as temperature is soaring high and when spring blooms are fading away the fresh organic harvest is what I am looking up to this time in my Garden

Tomatoes

                                                                    

                                                           

Lettuce

                                                                      

Potato harvest

                                                            

Pepper

                                                    

Phlox blooms in late spring

Meanwhile a Green Bee eater bird was spotted

                                                                     

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Growing inverted Tomato plant in bottle

 It is always a fun experience to grow your own veggies which are organically grown at your space. I have been growing all varieties of Tomatoes from past many years. This year I tried a very unique way of growing Tomatoes and I was fortunate to succeed in my first attempt. 

I tried growing inverted Tomato plant in a Recyclable Plastic Water Bottle.

This is a old Plastic bottle whose base has been removed to fill the soil mixture 

                                                                         A 1000ml  empty bottle

The base of bottle is removed for filling soil mixture

Tomato seedling inserted from the cap side

                                              And after 2months the first tomatoes appear

                                                 Tomatoes ripened and ready to be harvested

Things to remember growing inverted Tomatoes plants in bottles

- Tomato seedling should be gently inserted in bottle without damaging root system of the plant

- Soil mixture should be light and fertilizer rich so that plant gets its strength and food adequately

- Watering should be done moderately when the plant requires it otherwise the plant will rot eventually.                                                                                                                       

The spring summer transition is always a happy time in the Garden as there is a freshness of leaves and flowers can be felt in the Garden                                                                                                      

JATROPHA FLOWER

Meanwhile when Mobile camera does the justice to capture stunning purple sky

                                                      Brahmin Mynas spotted in purplish evening sky

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Garden Therapy

Gardening is just not a hobby it is a passion that can help  you come out  from depression and stress.

It is my personal experience that merely looking to the garden can elevate the mood of distressed and working with the plants can lighten up and even demolish your negative thoughts completely.

 Ask the people who like growing plants and feel bundle of joy when their first seed grown tomato gets ripened for harvest. This year has forced the world to stay at their home and the situation can not be ruled out anytime soon. It is best time to get involve into the gardening to bring optimistic approach in this stressful period of our life.

     This is the Tomato harvest from my last spring and I can tell you that my excitement for it's harvest was exactly the same which was a decade earlier.

                                                               

        Benefits of gardening for the people who have to isolate themselves from the society owing to the pandemic

                                                         

  

It is a fact that elderly people have to stay at home as they are more prone to the pandemic thereby they can start gardening in small or large spaces which will help them relief from stress and anxiety issues. It helps in improving physical as well mental health of a person.

It does not let you feel alone and gives you rewards for your hard work.However it is just not plants presence of birds,bees in the garden makes us feel happier also .

                                                                   A Peacock captured in a Park

And off course who doesn't like flowers and don't stop by to smell it and adore its beauty

Carnation Flower

Winter Morning sky