garlic harvesting

pomegranate bearing flowers

After 2 yrs our pomegranate is bearing lots of flowers, not sure if we can get some fruits

our lime plant bearing fruits

After more than 2 yrs, lime and lemon plants bearing fruits

Onions almost ready for harvest

After 6 months, here is the current state of onions, they are almost there

Here is one that is almost dry and i just pulled out.

'll cure for 2 or 3 weeks.

our plants current state

New corn plants

Garlics planted in may, itsend of oct now

Beets, raddish

Lime flowering after 2 yrs

First strawberry of the season

Old telugu actress Jamuna garu in Hindi movies

Just watched a bit of Dharmendra's movie, "naukar biwi ka".

Jamuna garu played Dharam ji's mother, she is really good, did her own dubbing in hindi, amazing hindi fluency. 

how to copy 80s Hindi movie and remake it as "ghajini"

1980's movie called, "Pasand Apni Apni", directed by Basu Chatterjee,

Actors, the great Utpal dutt, Mithun Chakraborthy, Rati Agnihotri.

I felt so sad that A. Murugudas copied the entire story, including dialogues, screenplay, translated to Tamil and remade it as the 1st half of Ghajini, I cant comment on the 2nd half.

Its a pity that this Tamil movie was remade into Hindi, how strange. 

Ryan's new language skill

I have started teaching Ryan on Telugu writing, a year ago, his 2 months holidays in India helped him learn to talk telugu, mostly a different dialect that my inlaws speak.

Upon my inlaws advice, i started speaking to him in telugu since feb 2019, i think Ryan has been slowly registering the words in his dictionary.

Now he is back from holidays, he is showing all his learnings, he is reading telugu books with a bit of help from me though, i felt incredibly happy, that's the fruit of my labor.

I am proud to say that I am his first Teacher, we both have been reading hundreds of books since he was 2yrs, i know this will help him a lot in future.

notes from Ashtangahridayam by Vagbhat

Ashtangahridayam is an ancient Ayurveda text written by Vagbhat few thousand years ago

I started reading now, so updating my notes here.

1.Sutrastanam

 a. Prathamodhyaya

Sutra 14) states... 

 1. Swad, amla, lavan ras bring shanti to Vata dosha,

   Tikta, ushan, Kashay ras bring shanti to kapha dosha

   Kashaya, tikta, madhur ras bring shanti to Pitta

Rest of the notes will be uploaded as pics from my notebook

coriander in my garden

Finally, after a lot of struggle, i got little coriander

strawberries in my garden

Since we planted one small strawberry plant 18 months ago, it multiplied and crawled, this summer we got good harvest, and now towards the end of summer the strawberries are flowering rapidly and producing fruits in abundance with no help from me literally, nature ofcourse is doing its job, look at one of them, its huge. 

Experiment with growing Rose plants from cuttings

Our Rose plant in our front yard is growing branches quite wildly and bending over our neighbour's driveway, so i cut few branches and after watching few videos in Youtube found out how to plant the cuttings, they say we need to cover the planted cuttings with plastic or something similar to build moisture and protect from sun, I did that now, ll see what happens in a week's time. 

Here is the picture after a few months, i didnt monitor it properly, so some of them actually had small leaves coming out and eventually died as I didnt lift the cover.

Luckily two of them survived.

Here they are

Here are the latest pics of the surviving ones.

my experiment with growing Coleus from cuttings

Just bought two coleus cuttings.

Experimenting now with pots, this is day 1, i just put some soil from my garden into pots and planted the cuttings, ll update this post in a few days. 

lime, lemon, spring onion, lettuce, pomegranate plants from my garden

harvesting potatoes from my garden

First time with potatoes, but its so easy, they came up the soil and were calling me, so went and got them using a small shovel. Just added one more pic, big harvest today, 2nd round, moved little bit of soil away and there you go plenty now. 

Here are some pics

Here is the final harvest of the season, the plants died almost, when  i  removed frombthe ground i noticed many baby potatoes, i along with my son planted all the babies in the area where I grew beans previously, lets see what happens

Telugu movie Fun and Frustration (F2) copied scene

Watching Brahmanandam comedy and just noticed that Anil Ravipudi, director of F2 Telugu movie copied (or inspired from) one of old Brahmanandam's comedies.

Watch this video, Brahmanandam's mama garu's role is tbe same as Prithvi Raj's role in F2.

https://youtu.be/v8Thw9UCpWU

garlic from my backyard, only one bulb though