Comments for http://greenlocal.org Cultivating Life Thu, 29 Mar 2018 05:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Comment on Thuvarai Magic by ragu http://greenlocal.org/thuvarai-magic/#comment-119 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:36:26 +0000 http://greenlocal.org/?p=194#comment-119 In reply to shankar.

Enjoy the magic unfold..where is your garden?

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Comment on Thuvarai Magic by shankar http://greenlocal.org/thuvarai-magic/#comment-118 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 06:06:25 +0000 http://greenlocal.org/?p=194#comment-118 Thanks for sharing this. I am have small backyard garden about 1500 sft and thuvarai grew on its own. It just starting to flower and I will watch its cycle and add what I see from now.

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Comment on What Thrived in the Drought by ragu http://greenlocal.org/what-thrived-in-the-drought/#comment-117 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 05:54:37 +0000 http://greenlocal.org/?p=356#comment-117 In reply to Gokul.

Hi Gokul, as long as a slice of the eco system survives, all of the eco system comes back. With renewed intelligence

The Sundakkai Tulasi and Gonkura did get some shade. Agathis were trees so no surprise there.

The rains were not that epic in our region but good enough to give us a break. At this point, we are grateful for any rain we get.

We tried to make good use of the rains by storing water, planting about 200 fruit saplings and 6 coconut saplings and expanding veggie beds for home BN use.

AWishing all good things to you and the farm

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Comment on What Thrived in the Drought by Gokul http://greenlocal.org/what-thrived-in-the-drought/#comment-116 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 05:16:55 +0000 http://greenlocal.org/?p=356#comment-116 Hi, thanks for documenting this. Hope you made the most of the epic (at least relatively speaking) rains that followed the epic drought.

I am surprised that Sundaikkai, Agathi, Gongura and Tulsi made it to this list. Keeping in mind that soil and location of the plants must be different in my case, sundaikkai has been the first plant to wilt. Agathi had a regular population of caterpillars which ate the growing tips, I gave up hand picking after a while. Gongura grew to half the height it would grow normally before it bolted and though Tulsi (purplish leaves and stem) didn’t thrive, it survived the heat better than the other plants of its size.

I would like to know if the plants in your list somehow got more attention — a bit of shade, a bit more water or did they get the resources that were meant for the other plants that died… etc.

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Comment on What Thrived in the Drought by Shridhara Rao http://greenlocal.org/what-thrived-in-the-drought/#comment-115 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:27:14 +0000 http://greenlocal.org/?p=356#comment-115 Hi Ragu,
The situation was pretty similar with your neighbours from the north – Shridhar/Hari’s farm near Malavalli. Rain was totally absent in 2016 and even in June/July of 2017. Unlike your farm that has mature plants, most of our plants are just 2 years old. I didn’t see many deaths (some guava and one pomegranate died) but I could see they were all under stress. Most borewells around us run dry. We don’t even have a borewell at our place… we are relying on rain and water coming from a rivulet called Shimsa nearby through a gov. scheme (it”s called lift irrigation). That stream ran dry this year – it was never dry in the last 7 years I have been here. So our plants were pretty much at the mercy of nature. I am no longer optimistic about farming.
Like you noted, even I noted that few plants survived and some thrived as well. Among the fruit trees, mangoes and Chiku did well. Neem trees seemed to be thriving in the heat and dry weather.
This august we finally saw the rains that we expect from a monsoon – 13 CMs in 2 days on 15th and 16th Aug!
I will see if I can get some Surinam cherry at my farm 🙂
regards

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Comment on Irrigation: Drip, Spray and Misty! by ragu http://greenlocal.org/irrigation/#comment-114 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 16:15:17 +0000 http://greenlocal.org/?p=185#comment-114 In reply to Catherine Eyiuche Owelle.

Hi Catherine,

Please check this list of supplier of drip irrigationn systems and parts in Nigeria.
https://www.agriculture-xprt.com/companies/keyword-drip-irrigation-27392/serving-nigeria

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Comment on Scythe Workshop by ragu http://greenlocal.org/scythe-tool/#comment-113 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 16:12:57 +0000 http://greenlocal.org/?p=343#comment-113 In reply to Devaraj.

Please connect with Anant Chaturvedi at 70802 26668 or anantchaturvedi355@gmail.com

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Comment on Scythe Workshop by Devaraj http://greenlocal.org/scythe-tool/#comment-112 Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:00:47 +0000 http://greenlocal.org/?p=343#comment-112 will you pl arrange to deliver it at Cherthala in Kerala

devarajcr@gmail.com

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Comment on Irrigation: Drip, Spray and Misty! by Catherine Eyiuche Owelle http://greenlocal.org/irrigation/#comment-111 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:43:07 +0000 http://greenlocal.org/?p=185#comment-111 Am a small farmer in nigeria. Will like to purchase the misty sprayer and drip irrigation system for my greenhouse farm and snail farmers

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Comment on About us by Srikrishna R http://greenlocal.org/about-us/#comment-110 Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:38:13 +0000 http://greenlocal.org/?page_id=132#comment-110 Dear Raghu and Nisha madam,

I am Srikrishna R and Prasanna Devi R, my wife from Vadavalli, Coimbatore. I read an article in The Hindu magazine dated 29 March 2013. In this connection I would like to have u r contact number, please share me u r contact number.

Thanks and Regards
Srikrishna R

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