Winter calling … join the fest!
Once again winter is here at our doors with its festivity call.
It is time to revamp our garden and prepare the beds and pots, collect seeds and saplings – decorate our roofs, balconies. It is time to think about the colours we want to bring in to our lives. To update myself along with my readers, I have spent almost half a day in a nearby nursery to see its preparation. The activities centring around the winter needs of the plant lovers is like preparing for a fest!
Be with the planting vegetables of this season or with the seasonal flowers, winter offers everything. Some beds are in the making, some are just showing the birth of the young plants – sprouting out from the seed shells and some beds are just ready for the new home. The peeping faces of the young saplings are so inviting I am sure nobody can resist their calls – take me home!
I am speaking about the nursery – many of you already know about it. It offers a wide variety of plants of all types – ranging from mango to tulsi – the popular herb (winter essential to curb cold and cough!). A wide variety of popular winter flowers, cuts and saplings are ready in different sizes. Look at the tiny saplings of winter special corolla, lau (gourd) or egg plants or green chillies; you just decide and pick. For a veteran plantlover,I do not need to impart anything new, you are the expert when it comes to supporting and motivating others. But for a new comer, it's like bringing a child(ren) in the family. We need to set our mind and have our family ready to welcome the new comes. Do the preparatory work i. e. learn and educate, then have the right kind and size of containers (earthen, plastic, metal –drums) fitting to the individual need. The planting soils, require fertilizer and insecticides along with garden equipment, shovels, water pipes or jugs, pruning scissor, buckets or baskets and they are allto be ready.
Last week, I spent half a day in the nearby nursery – many of you perhaps already did the same.This is one of the government supported nursery adjoined with the Gulshan Lake view park. The park and adjacent lake, the walking tracks put added value to this nursery. Besides the regular joggers, people of all types, whoever goes there at least, spend sometime in this nursery. During the weekends, lots of expats bring their children to make them familiar with greenery. The staffs are trained and are available to provide you extra support (home visits). The saplings are sold at a government rate. Before I conclude, I must make you aware that you must collect your containers and fertilizer from another nursery during the preparatory phase and then go to this nursery.
Photo: Laila Karim
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