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Colors in my garden

By geekgardener, on October 22nd, 2008%

I always had a thought that the pictures I take using my Nokia 6600 dont do justice to the actual colors in my garden. So this time I had one of my friend bring his camera and went on a photo spree….

Here is a chrysanthemum flower.if you thought those are big flowers you must re-look the pic again. Its a teeny weeny dwarf chrysanthemum on Macro mode. Chrysanthemum usually bloom in bunches and If i had ‘pinched’ it properly at the right time, I will have a living bouquet in my garden by now:)

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This rose plant here was so dull and wilted because of lack of fertilization and care. To be very honest, I used a chemical fertilizer called Miracle gro Food spikes. They are slow release fertilizers lasting upto 2 months and it contains all the macro and micro nutrients that are essential for plants . I think its worth it

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This is an ‘Orange’ rose and my attempt on macro mode photography and I think the rose by its beauty has eclipsed my photography mistakes.

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Last week I have been working on seed starting tomatoes, chilli and egg plant (white). I will cover on those another day.

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More results

By geekgardener, on February 8th, 2008%

With the plants paying off for all the hardwork i had put, its really time to enjoy the results. Yes, all the plants in my container garden are doing really well. With regular spray of panchagavya supplemented with vermicompost, they couldn’t be happier.

Sometime back I bought a Coleus variety called “Crimson velvette” which is now a bushy plant from which i have already taken 15 cuttings and I am excited to say that I have 100% success in rooting all of them. They are still in their mini greenhouse. Once they are ready to face the real world after hardening they will pose for a pic.

Tomatoes, Eggplants are all doing great. Here is a pic of 25 day old tomato seedling

Tomato seedling.

The tiny plants you see behind are cockscomb and couple of spinach seedlings that got into the cockscomb seed packet somehow ;) .

Out of 6 chrysanthemum cuttings I made, just 2 were lucky. but then I rooted them using “Keradix” which is 2.2% humic acid and not really a rooting hormone. I also have IBA solution called “Quicroot” but they didnt mention the concentration of it.

Will make some more cuttings of the mums and post the results.

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