Children have neither past nor future; they rejoice in the present.
Jean de La Bruyere
It was a fabulous gardening session I had, early this morning with Bhuvan, Gautam and Chinmay ! And how could I forget Disco. He gave us good company too...
It's Dasara vacation and the kids are free in the mornings. I had called them at 6.30 and Gautam was so eager, he landed up at 6.10 itself ! We used our half-done leaf compost as a base for the pots and added the potting mix over that. We transplanted cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli seedlings and sowed some bush beans and gulugayi/pointed gourd seeds. And now they are looking forward to tomorrow morning for another session...
We plan to rope in more kids, get back on our early morning "Nature walks" and collect more dry leaves this season. We hope to increase the amount of our leaf compost this time. And then we also have the "Copper-trees-of-Spring" to follow soon...
16 October
And the MAJJA continues...
This morning it was sowing "Mixed-Greens" all the way.
The compost got over, or we would have filled up more pots and sowed more seeds... I'll get more compost from Mum's place today and we can keep the rest of the potting and sowing for tomorrow morning.
17 October, 2015
"Our challenge isn’t so much to teach children about the natural world, but to find ways to nurture and sustain the instinctive connections they already carry.”
Terry Krautwurst
And it was another fun-filled morning of sowing and more sowing... grin emoticon
Jean de La Bruyere
It was a fabulous gardening session I had, early this morning with Bhuvan, Gautam and Chinmay ! And how could I forget Disco. He gave us good company too...
It's Dasara vacation and the kids are free in the mornings. I had called them at 6.30 and Gautam was so eager, he landed up at 6.10 itself ! We used our half-done leaf compost as a base for the pots and added the potting mix over that. We transplanted cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli seedlings and sowed some bush beans and gulugayi/pointed gourd seeds. And now they are looking forward to tomorrow morning for another session...
We plan to rope in more kids, get back on our early morning "Nature walks" and collect more dry leaves this season. We hope to increase the amount of our leaf compost this time. And then we also have the "Copper-trees-of-Spring" to follow soon...
Adding the half-done leaf compost at the base...
Topping
it with my very simple potting mix of equal parts of soil and
vermicompost (Got from Mum's litt;e vermicomposting factory) and some
neem cake powder.
neem cake powder.
Taking a break to goof around. Here we have Bhuvan trying to imitate Disco... That's the difference between working with children and adults...
Disco, lost in his own world, yet giving us company...
Disco, lost in his own world, yet giving us company...
Introducing them to seedlings and transplanting...
16 October
And the MAJJA continues...
This morning it was sowing "Mixed-Greens" all the way.
The compost got over, or we would have filled up more pots and sowed more seeds... I'll get more compost from Mum's place today and we can keep the rest of the potting and sowing for tomorrow morning.
17 October, 2015
"Our challenge isn’t so much to teach children about the natural world, but to find ways to nurture and sustain the instinctive connections they already carry.”
Terry Krautwurst
And it was another fun-filled morning of sowing and more sowing... grin emoticon
Sowed more bereke soppu/mixed greens, peas, bush beans, bhendi and
finally got to sow some of the seeds that were so generously gifted to
me by Vani and her team, when they visited Dharwad. Thanks a tonne Hariram, Jani, Claire, Ramya H, Jyotika, Ramesh Damodaran and Uma.
You guys are amazing !!
You guys are amazing !!
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