Last Sunday, the kitchen garden day was a great success. The meet up was after noon so most of them had enough time to attend many other events happening in and around Bangalore in the morning. . I had packed all my seeds, labeled them and was all set for the meeting to begin at 1 PM.
Exactly at 12:55, I get a call from the early birds regarding the meet. I was excited and motivated because of their punctuality. I received them and we went to the meeting hall. While we were discussing, a few more entered. More introductions happened. In just a matter of minutes all the seats were taken and we were house full 
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After an initial round of introductions, we started discussing about everyone’s garden and what they were growing. Slowly it became a full-fledged question and answer’s session which was good. I took this opportunity to give a short session on how to start a terrace/kitchen garden. This session, woven with questions and answers took a good couple of hours.
There were seeds and plants on display. Some of them swapped and others bought the seeds. The most sought were the strawberry plants brought by Asha. I had a tray full of Parsley, tomato and coriander seedlings to giveaway. After the talks, we went to the greenhouse for a short guided tour.
We had fun! Look at the picture below.
To all who made it to the event, Thank you so much for making it a memorable event. I really appreciate people who came all the way from other side of Bangalore such as RT Nagar, Yelahanka, Jakkur etc… It shows your passion towards gardening.
Thanks once again!.
To those who missed, not to worry. There will be more such events in future, so watch this space.
As always, Happy gardening!
GG
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Dear GG, I wish I’d been there. Unfortunately my trip to Bangalore didn’t materialize. My mother-in-law attended the event though; she told me that it was indeed a grand success. Wishing you many such successful events.
Dear GG, Great work! I wanted to see your green house! I missed it too, could not make it on that day. Hopefully you would have another event soon… Congrats for this effort.
Congratulations to all for the grand success.
Hi GG,
Really nice to see ppl coming from such far away places. Congrats to you!
On my side, i have moved to Taipei,Taiwan for a new job opportunity.
Have given my house on rent
I have a small terrace garden here too but haven’t done anything serious till now. The house owner just has some fancy plants on the terrace. Hopefully will start my kitchen garden soon.
Regards
Raja
Hi Raja
Nice to see your comment after a long time. With your passion I am sure those fancy plants are gonna be replaced by veggies
.. we do miss your action in the gardening front. do keep me posted
gg
Hey GG,
I had a nice time, though I did come late – I’m so happy to have another set of seeds which I’m looking forward to plant. Bokchoy, Cherry & Carorich tomatoes, Lettuce, Leeks… what I like about your collection is that its not something we easily get around and I have had good success with them in the past!
And I am so happy to get that ‘adding lime to the soil’ doubt cleared just in time because I had just got 3 packets of the wrong variety and would have dumped it!
It would be a good idea to know what seeds/seedlings you have (maybe a list somewhere) as well as what others plan to bring if there is a swap. May help the planning for us better.
Thank you very very much and looking forward to many more such events.
@srikanth, @sumathy and @anita
Thanks a lot. It was a fun event and planning to conduct more such events in future. Will keep you all informed.
Hi GG,
Sad that I could not make it up. I do have quite a few good seeds I had collected from an NGO. I would like to share them with others and get some seeds useful for me. I suppose we can plan for such meets every 2 or 3 months and in difeerent gardens.
Geetha
Congrats! It’s a nice feeling to see so many enthusiastic people, with pretty smiles.