Grow your Veggies – Part 2
In our last issue, I had written on how we could grow our organic vegetables, and this time I would like you to see for yourself how satisfying the outcome can be!
Meet Dr. Priyanka Halwasiya, a resident of C 103. I had spoken on the phone and I knew that she had been growing her vegetables for some time. So one afternoon I decided to have a look for myself. What a revelation! In her small space of about 1200 square feet, there were lush plants and several vegetables. Though it was that in-between time when we shifted from summer to winter veggies, she still had a lot growing. The pictures speak for themselves!
I asked her how she started, and how she was incentivized to grow her own. It was her father-in-law’s passion she wanted to carry forward after he was no more. To begin with, she was all Google, Facebook and YouTube! Now one of her relatives runs a company which sets up organic spaces for people and runs it as a business, and she gets her technical advice from him.
She grows her vegetables in Grow Bags and pots, and prefers the Growbags. Because they maintain better temperatures than plastic pots. This time they had a bounty of bhindi, tomatoes, shimla mirch, ghia, tori, petha, and tinda, besides lemongrass, basil, rosemary, pudina, dhania etc.
