While I was growing up in Goa, we had a little patch of land around the house that we cultivated. We had flowering shrubs, herbs, fruits and even some vegetables. So this year, as winter was giving way to spring, I decided to take advantage of the beautiful California weather and start a container garden on my patio.
Fortunately, part of my patio gets good sunshine for almost 6 hours a day and part of it is always in the shade. Thus, I could choose from plants that required full sun, part shade or full shade. I started with buying a few types of seeds, peat pellets for germinating them, potting soil, teracotta pots, fertilizer, watering can and gardening gloves.
I had never sown seeds in a peat pellet before and the whole experience was very exciting. I started with cilantro since it is low maintenance and has a quick ROI. I sowed the seeds indoors in a little container made for the peat pellets. The seeds started sprouting in about 7-10 days of sowing. When the saplings were about 2 weeks old, I transplanted them to a herb box. Here are some pics courtesy Pravin :)
...Just sprouting
...Waking up
...Little sapling
...First leaf
...Little plants
...Flourishing :)
4 comments:
Awesome! I am impressed!
Finally they are on the blog :) BTW people, we have started consuming that cilantro :)
Thank you, Smitha
Wow how did you buy time from your busy schedule to do all this. im sure you must be keeping an eye on it atleast a week and half. i did'nt see ant patio hobby in you when you were back then.
indeed a nice one!
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