Vegetable Garden

Over the last 2 months, Shalom had been quite inquisitive about how vegetables come into being.

When we had first arrived at NJH, we had started off a vegetable garden. However, because of Simian menace, we did not continue our enthusiasm. 

However, over the last 2 weeks, our farmer genes kicked on and we were into some serious amount of backyard vegetable gardening. Snaps of the efforts . . .

Our only prayer is that the monkeys will spare us this time . . .

Potatoes in empty cement bags

The first tomato plant. We found this growing wild and transplanted it to our backyard.
If you look carefully, you can see the first fruit . . .

A close up of the first fruit . . .

Cauliflower . . .

A seed bed . . . 

Other forms of seed beds . . . made from discarded medicine cartons

Broccoli plants coming up . . .

Wasted . . . Could be avoided

Today, I went to the Daltonganj vegetable market.

It was such a cynosure to the eyes to see lot of ripe juicy tomatoes all over the place.

The first vendor I saw was selling the stuff for 10 INR for one and a half kilo.

The next one was selling it 2 kilograms for the same amount.

Then, there was this place where it was selling two and a half kilograms for 10 INR.

And the ultimate one . . . there was two crates of tomatoes just left out for the cows to eat. The farmer who brought them did not find it profitable to sell it in the market . . . and so abandoned it for the cows to eat . . .

Reminiscent of 2010 when we had vegetables being sold for throwaway prices. . . .