And I am losing interest
As stated in my last post, the society had given an ultimatum to move all plants from roof top and I had no other option. At one point, I thought, I would just take everything to my native, but then they allotted a small place in the front garden, which I could use. Given that this was at least a breather, I decided to see if this would work out permanently. Moving so many pots was not an easy task, so I had to hire two people to move almost 50 pots / containers.
I made sure to be personally present and look after how they move these with care, so that no harm is done to the plants. It was like I was part of the three member team - delegating the heavy lifting to these two people. Taking pots to the ground floor at one stretch and then taking them again to the front garden, took almost 2-3 hours. But given that these are our society workers, they charged reasonable amount. Hiring external people would have cost me a lot more.
Before taking the curry leaves plant, I cut out the stems , as my wife had asked to prepare a hair oil, in which it was used. Will post about it in another post, but the main reason to cut was I knew they won't survive in the public place.
This is how they were put up - the roof top was giving lot of freedom to these plants as well as easy for me to work. I could drag them and nurture, but here they had to be kept like orphans. Given that this was the best option I did not loose heart and determined to give them proper care.
And they did not disappoint as well. Giving them the right care, makes me happy, but its a lot of work, because I have to lift each container and bring to the open area and then again keep back. It was a lot easy on the roof top, just drag out and move in - no heavy lifting.
I have found out two places, one here and one at my native, to prepare the organic Jeevamruta using the cow manure - the cow must eat grass. It's a bit of work, but what disappoints me is that, people are mercilessly taking the flowers, as its kept in a public place. This makes me rethink if I should continue doing this or stop for ever. They have said NO to take them back to roof top, so this is my only option. Though I complained to the society and they also feel bad about it, its difficult to prevent such irresponsible people steal flowers. It takes countless hours of blood and sweat to grow these lovely flowers, but when someone mercilessly takes them all, leaving the plant bald, it gives a big pinch. I am not able to decide if I should give up and stop pursuing my hobby, but if this trend continues, I will probably move them forever to my native place. One other option that the society has given is to encroach the area with some kind of boundary but that also is going to cost a bit in terms of time and money. I will be watching this season, and decide next steps by end of this winter, but honestly I am loosing interest. Watering these plants is not easy as well, I had to put up some extra pipe for that, but taking the pipe near the pots itself is difficult. It is manageable now, as its needed once in 2-3 days because of winter. But in a month or so, will have to water them daily. So lot of cons at this new place - if this becomes more burdensome over time, I will have to find out an alternative or put this to end.
One other option is to take over the responsibility of entire area, and manage the garden, but that's a huge task. It would require lot of time and commitments, but will explore that as well.
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