so yeah to continue it…I came back home and after three months built huge square pot kind of a thing with bricks and cement and planted varagu seeds in it. It grew pretty well and after this there are no sad stories of failure. =) it grew very well…oh yeah I forgot to mention all these are organically grown with no additional fertilizers and not even compost. As I said before it’s a 4 month crop and it’s almost ready for harvest now another 15 days or so then I can harvest them. I am feeling so excited right now.
What’s fascinating is that a single seed can yield so many seeds when planted!!!. Watching the process of crop growth is very exciting and I learnt many things during the process like how much water to pour during the different stages and other plants which can be planted with that. I avoided planting millets and other crops because this was the first time I was seeing the plant. I had only seen the seeds at krishna’s farm. So will let u guys know when the varagu is ready for harvest….
This is one happy story…..by the way krishna’s crops failed for 3 years consequently but the forth year his whole farm was blooming and this farm had the highest yield =D..that’s another happy story.. will keep you updated..
bye bye for now
sangee
Monday, May 28, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Varagu Experiment School Part 1
yes yes i thought varagu deserved a little praise since it's growing so nicely now.
varagu is an indegenius crop which used to be there even before rice came to india (yes rice is not native to india). It's very hardy doesn't need much water, needs good sunshine yeilds a lot and also the growth period is 4 months. the most suitable crop for india.
It all started when I met krishna of auroville. i was very inspired by him and my love for growing plants and gardens grew soo much that i wanted to do farming. i was speaking to krishna abt this and he gave me organic seeds of varagu, horsetail millet, 3 kinds of corn and bean seeds. anant and karthik were also interested in growing varagu so on the way bak to chennai in the bus we were talking abt this and we were discussing about a good place for planting these. it hit me that school was the best place possible because all three of us had to come the daily. the others also thought it was a good idea and we went abt clearing a space for varagu. Sadly K lost interest in growing varagu with myself and anant i dunno the reasons i just felt sad. so anyways ant and myself went abt planting varagu in skl, we planted a little late. varagu finally let out abt 15 small shoots 20 days after planting. it so happens that the crop failed because the soil was not good enough for varagu (there was only a layer of soil, we had chosen a dump area). i was feeling a bit down after this i spent loooong hours thinking abt it and how ppl easily change due to peer pressure and all this hey i am too tired to write the second part of the experiment will write later
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varagu is an indegenius crop which used to be there even before rice came to india (yes rice is not native to india). It's very hardy doesn't need much water, needs good sunshine yeilds a lot and also the growth period is 4 months. the most suitable crop for india.
It all started when I met krishna of auroville. i was very inspired by him and my love for growing plants and gardens grew soo much that i wanted to do farming. i was speaking to krishna abt this and he gave me organic seeds of varagu, horsetail millet, 3 kinds of corn and bean seeds. anant and karthik were also interested in growing varagu so on the way bak to chennai in the bus we were talking abt this and we were discussing about a good place for planting these. it hit me that school was the best place possible because all three of us had to come the daily. the others also thought it was a good idea and we went abt clearing a space for varagu. Sadly K lost interest in growing varagu with myself and anant i dunno the reasons i just felt sad. so anyways ant and myself went abt planting varagu in skl, we planted a little late. varagu finally let out abt 15 small shoots 20 days after planting. it so happens that the crop failed because the soil was not good enough for varagu (there was only a layer of soil, we had chosen a dump area). i was feeling a bit down after this i spent loooong hours thinking abt it and how ppl easily change due to peer pressure and all this hey i am too tired to write the second part of the experiment will write later
this is sangeetha saying tata
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