Gardening Update: Look After and Restoring Garden 🏡

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It's me @amjadsharif
From #pakistan

Welcome to my gardening blog. I have been working in my garden for a few days. Due to the heat, the soil has become very dry and hard. I want to soften the soil around the plants I have planted. I will use cow dung fertilizer, which is also called organic fertilizer. When I soften the soil, I will mix organic fertilizer in it so that they can get their food with the help of roots.

As you can see, the plants are getting dryer due to the heat. You must be able to guess by looking at the condition of the leaves. In addition, after harvesting the vegetables that I had grown, a lot of roots had grown, which I needed to destroy. The first thing I have done is to soften the soil of these plants and remove or collect the weeds that are there.

The soil is quite hard. The tool I use to soften the soil is called Heo in our language. This tool is not the latest, but it is easy to use. I have water in the evening before using it. This will bring moisture to the soil and it will be easier for me to soften the soil.

Now you can see that I have softened some parts of the garden (ground) with the help of Heo. The weather is very hot to work in, and that, too, is not so easy with Heo. If you soften the soil with the help of Heo for 10 minutes, you will get thirsty and then you have to drink water.

After resting for a while, I started digging again because I wanted to clear the entire area of weeds and it took me about 10 to 15 minutes to loosen it. When this process was complete, I thought, why not reduce the size of the ditches that I had made around the garden to water the plants When I water with my water pump? A lot of water is wasted in this ditch, so I was thinking of reducing the size of this ditch. I thought that I should complete the whole process the next morning.

Before sunrise in the morning, I prepared a watering can with the help of Heo to water the plants. A lot of effort and energy was spent in preparing this watering can. It took me 40 to 45 minutes to prepare a small area beautifully. After preparing the watering can, I watered the plants with the help of a water pump and completed my work. In addition to fruit plants, there are also some vegetables in my garden. As you must have seen, I have destroyed all the weeds, so there may be nothing in it, but that is not the case at all.

Vegetables have definitely grown, but their number is very small. Among the vegetables, there are three to four tomato plants and three chili plants. Apart from this, I have not grown any other vegetables yet. Today, I planted some cotton seeds in it and I have also planted sesame seeds. This is just to see whether these plants will bring beauty to the garden or not. This is my first experience, which we have to see in the next two to three months. If these plants were there, they would enhance the beauty of your garden, like some people have done. Corn plants are planted, which add to the beauty of the garden. Similarly, I have also planted cotton and sesame plants. After that, the plants will grow and after the plants, they will bloom. The flowers will bring beauty. So we are waiting until they grow and start blooming. Tomato plants are being harvested, which are used in my kitchen daily. Pepper plants are just starting to bloom, and after that, maybe a month, the peppers will start to grow.

I have planted a grass plant. It is called lemon grass and it has many benefits. I want to tell you about it so that you, too, can grow this grass in your garden and get medical benefits from it. This grass helps remove stomach acidity, reduce mental stress, relieve physical fatigue, relieve fever and colds, and cleanse the skin. This grass can be boiled in water and drunk as lemon grass tea. You can see more plants in my garden, including lemons, grapes, etc. These are fruit plants and I am taking good care of them so that they can provide me with solutions. I also ask for your permission. See you in the next blog.

Who is amjadsharif

Amjad Sharif is an experienced farmer, educated agricultural expert, amateur gardener, and tourist person. He specializes in modern and natural ways of agriculture. He presents his experiences and highlights of rural life in a simple and informative manner on Hive.

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