How to Go Green for less than a dollar!

The last Green post made me to deeply think about becoming a more serious container gardener.  Fortunately, there is about 10m by 2m (30 feet by 6 feet) of unpaved bit space in the backyard of my apartment complex.  Actually it was intentionally left unpaved for just such an eventuality.  At present there are a few saplings in it -

• a Guava tree which is about 6 years old and starting to fruit,
• a Bael sapling of similar age,
• a Curry Tree almost 12 years old,
• a Henna plant almost 10 years old (update: died in the summer heat of 2012),
• a Bauhinia sapling of about 6 years (species B. tomentosa) (update: died in the summer heat of 2012)
• couple of Banana plants, re-growth of the original plants,
• a recently planted Drumstick Tree, (update: did not survive the summer of 2013);
• a recently planted Mango plant, (not the Will and Kate tree)
• and a couple of Jamun Plants, (update: died in the summer heat of 2012).

You can’t see the Curry Tree, Henna plant, Drumstick or Jamun trees, but rest all are here.

The Papaya tree blogged about earlier, and before that, has died out;  Its place has been taken over by the Drumstick Tree.  Just after the Well which you see at the end, I hve planted a couple of Sugar Cane cuts - on seeing the cut growing shoots on the Terrace (update these did not survive beyond 2012).

This week is time to clean up the rubbish you see, square and level up the ground and plant some vegetables like climbing beans, french beans, ladies finger and brinjals.  And unlike earlier, I am not going to use kitchen discards or refuse for seeds.

I managed to locate a seed seller locally and have bought a few packets of seeds, which I plan to use both in the back yard and on all those pots you see in the picture.  The pots are to be shifted to the Terrace to power up the Terrace garden.



Watch this space!

Oh, BTW, the whole lot of 8 packets cost Rs. 40/-; which is where the dollar comes in!

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