When we moved in to our own house in Hosur early last year, I and my wife were very excited for many reasons. One of the reasons was to be able to have a garden. Well, why wouldn't you be, when you have more than 250 sq ft just for this. So much was the excitement that we somehow wanted to stuff in three coconut trees, a pomegranate tree, a gooseberry, a sita tree (sugar apple/custard apple) along with two hibiscus and other vegetable plants like tomato, ridge gourd, finger (okra) etc..
Soon we found ourselves working in our future garden. To begin with, we had to remove all the stones, that were laid in the garden each weighing over 50 kilograms. We soon found that what lay beneath the stones was just sand with lot of building debris like broken bricks, concrete blocks, stones etc. We wouldn't have proper fertile soil before digging out the top one foot. Even though this slowed down our progress, it didn't deter us from going to the nursery and buying plants and seeds that we thought could have in our garden. To boost the growth, we added organic fertilizer and also compost in some pockets.
By the time we got rid of the paved stones, enough space and made the soil ready, there came the rainy season. And along with it came a period of 4-6 months where our new garden won't get sun light. Sounds weird? Well, this garden is adjacent to our two storied house on the northern side. And this means, the sun will be behind the house (wrt to the garden) for a good portion of the year. We realized we had a serious problem on our hand.
What shall we do? Obviously, we can't move the garden or the house. And of course, not the Sun. We thought of trying plants which don't need much sunlight, like radish. But that didn't work either. Then I came up with a brilliant idea - to mount a big convex mirror that will reflect sun light on to our garden. Of course this will have rotate as the sun goes about his path. Unfortunately, like most (of my) brilliant ideas, many questions were raised and soon it was left as impractical. But I still get tempted to steal one of those mirrors they have in parking lots when I have an opportunity.
Now, we are in March and the Sun God has finally turned his one eye on us; Or on our garden, to be more precise. Nowadays, the sun is right above the head, which means we are direct sun light on a considerable portion of the garden. The roses and Hibiscus are blooming and few baby tomatoes are gleaming. The goose berry is racing ahead (vertically, I mean) and the coconut tree is not far behind. And guess what - we get few visitors too - butterflies!
And so, we will make some green while the sun shines on us.
Soon we found ourselves working in our future garden. To begin with, we had to remove all the stones, that were laid in the garden each weighing over 50 kilograms. We soon found that what lay beneath the stones was just sand with lot of building debris like broken bricks, concrete blocks, stones etc. We wouldn't have proper fertile soil before digging out the top one foot. Even though this slowed down our progress, it didn't deter us from going to the nursery and buying plants and seeds that we thought could have in our garden. To boost the growth, we added organic fertilizer and also compost in some pockets.
By the time we got rid of the paved stones, enough space and made the soil ready, there came the rainy season. And along with it came a period of 4-6 months where our new garden won't get sun light. Sounds weird? Well, this garden is adjacent to our two storied house on the northern side. And this means, the sun will be behind the house (wrt to the garden) for a good portion of the year. We realized we had a serious problem on our hand.
What shall we do? Obviously, we can't move the garden or the house. And of course, not the Sun. We thought of trying plants which don't need much sunlight, like radish. But that didn't work either. Then I came up with a brilliant idea - to mount a big convex mirror that will reflect sun light on to our garden. Of course this will have rotate as the sun goes about his path. Unfortunately, like most (of my) brilliant ideas, many questions were raised and soon it was left as impractical. But I still get tempted to steal one of those mirrors they have in parking lots when I have an opportunity.
Now, we are in March and the Sun God has finally turned his one eye on us; Or on our garden, to be more precise. Nowadays, the sun is right above the head, which means we are direct sun light on a considerable portion of the garden. The roses and Hibiscus are blooming and few baby tomatoes are gleaming. The goose berry is racing ahead (vertically, I mean) and the coconut tree is not far behind. And guess what - we get few visitors too - butterflies!
And so, we will make some green while the sun shines on us.
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>>And so, we will make some green while the sun shines on us.
What a timing for the above
statement!
And so, we (IBM) will make some green (money) while the sun (Sun) shines on us.
Haha... I hadn't realized. But oh yeah, the timing couldn't have been more appropriate :)
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