Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Experience with growing spinach

Wr got four different spinach plants, even after two and half months they look small, the baby spinach is still like a baby (closer to the shade compared to others) ofcourse the others are growing now, not big but producing leaves, i started cutting them and using, they are very strong in flavor so didnt like it so much in my sandwitch.
Unitially the leaves had lots of holes so caterpillars or aphids might be eating, i got an eco friendly insect oil, i used only once and its all good now, may be i have to use more.

Monday, November 26, 2018

Experience with growing chillies

We had two aussie chillie plants (may be thai), they took time to grow, all our plants were planted in early september, i think 2nd week as that's when we finished our landscaping and I paid half the amount from my prev. company's final pay.
The plants started bearing chillies in early Nov, so around two months.
My indian chillie plant initially looked like its not growing, but after days one flower came and then one chillie.

Pests: none dared to touch so I am happy, not even slugs, caterpillars, aphids.

Watering: they dont need a lot of water, i made a mistake initially by watering daily and that impacted a lot of plants, now i am watering once in two days, i think once in 3 days should be fine as i got sugarcane mulch around all my veggies.

Location: two of the plants are in the southern side, they get plenty of sunlight, one which is next to strawberry plant is producing a lot of chillies, yhe other which is next to beens just started.
And the other plant on the west of the house gets sunlight only in the afternoon, may be that's why the indian chillie is growing slowly with only one chillie at yhe moment which i plucked and used yesterday.

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Spinach from our garden

I cut around 8  leaves from each of our three spinach leaves and had in sandwich, they are really so good with strong flavour.

Monday, October 29, 2018

Things to benefit my plants

Chicken poo for tomatoes, egg plants
Epsim salt solution, potassium feed for chillies.
Seaweed emulsion for citrus
Nitrogen for plants with nitrogen deficiency

Friday, October 26, 2018

Slugs in my garden

They are eating my marigolds, have compeletly spoiled my ranunclus flowers,0 whole plant is dried now.
I just bought a snail and slug killer, its name is multiguard, this is eco friendly as it has iron chelate and not methaldehyde, and this product is gentle on soil and it dissolves into soil.
I now understood how difficult it is to grow our own food, people take their food for granted, only if they work on growing their own they would understand the efforts that go in producing the food that we eat.

Snappeas in my garden

For the first time ever, 26the oct 2018, we have our first baby snap pea, i didnt cut yet, waiting for more so i can have a fry on one day, so happy to see our efforts.
After all we spent $4200 to setup our backyard and around $600 for plants

Saturday, October 13, 2018

First time eating my own grown food

This has to be remembered,
For the first time ever, on 13th oct 2018 at 9:25 PM i used curry leaves from my garden to make a veggie stir fry, i am so glad that i had food from my garden, this has been my dream and I fullfilled it finally.

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

New Dillagi hindi movie song copied from Frank Sinatra's

Another instance of plagiarism,
"Ha ha yeah pyar hai" song from dillagi movie, starring sunny deol, urmila and bobby, composed by Jatin Lalit is a direct coptbof "I love you Baby" from Frank Sinatra.
I used to like Jatin Lalit's compositions and especially this song but after knowing this I stopped listening to Dillagi and instead listen to Frank Sinatra's.

Thursday, May 24, 2018

About Garikapati narasimha rao gari pravachanalu

Its a treat to watch garikapati gari videos in ABN and bhaktu tv youtube channels.
He explains our epics and puranas, advaita sidhantam, sloka by sloka and at the same time commenting on the bad things happening in the society, i encourage everyone to listen to his videos and learn more about this life and god.
Garikapati variki naa padabhivandanalu.

About Mahesh babu's sreemanthudu movie story

I noticed that Mahesh Babu's  "sreemanthudu" movie story has resemblence to his father's old movie, "ramarajyam lo bheema raju".
Not sure if the director, koratala siva might've got inspired after watching super star krishna's movie.
I am a fan of the great Krishna garu and I watch hils movies when I get time.

In this movie, "ramarajyam lo bheemaraju", krishna bets with his father that he can survive without his wealth and goes to a village, he stays in sridevi's house helping all the villagers and fighting the village head, rao gopala rao
Its a nice movie and I liked it.

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

My name to Ryan

I dont think anyone has uttered my name, "chaitu" more than Ryan, he calls me at a minimum 500 to 1000 times on a weekend day and probably around 200-300 times on a weekday.
And he is 5 now, by this time he might've already crossed my mother in calling my name, I am sure she would've called me more until I reached a certain age and after that the communic tion lessened.
I think its a similar story with everyone, the interaction between parents and kids reduces as the kids grow, the main reason being that we would have other people to talk to.
I noticed the other day that Ryan was calling my name in his sleep, I think I am truly blessed to experience this.

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Pillsbury Gold Atta

A day before, 8th jan '18, I opened the new packet of pillsbury Atta Sharbati 100% gold, i cannot forget the taste of the roti that I made, it was one of the best roti that I've ever had.
The roti was so silky and smooth, I could sense it while mixing and preparing the paste, i added rice bran oil, water and salt to the mix, and ofcourse added some ghee while making chapatis on the pan.
I wish I know the farmer who sowed these wheat seeds and the name of the river on which these crops grow.