A Friend’s Garden

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”. ~ Maya Angelou

As we converted our passion to business and started out officially in Aug 2011, the journey seemed quite long and it seemed this would never go ahead. As days passed by, all our savings was draining out and Rajhesh’s day time job alone was fueling us with funds. Just the hopes and determination kept us going. In fact, we didn’t have a single garden (commercially) to work until May 2012. It was Archana, our dear friend who first offered us to re-pot and add few plants to her garden.  It was our silver lining on the dark cloud and we immediately accepted the offer.

Even though this was not our first garden experience, working on the commercial part was highly challenging as we didn’t know how to gauge the price, calculate the quantity of materials needed and so on. Archana was supportive and wanted to go ahead as planned, setting out for trial and errors.

We visited her home on a bright Sunday with few bags of compost, cocopeat, red sand and few herbs & seeds. Suhas & Rajhesh began working on the 40 to 50 odd pots, pulling out the weeds and soil mix from the pots. Later Archana also lent her hand with moving the pots around helping us to keep the place organized from all the mess. LOL!

Preparing the Potting Mix:

Our first potting mix with a ratio 1:1:1 (Compost, Cocopeat, Redsand) was prepared and later filled into all the possible containers at her place which included earthen pots, plastic pots, paint cans, old vessels, Plastic bags and whatever we could find in there.

It was then that we realised we still had 4 bags of Compost left which was extra. “1st lesson learnt” 🙂

And later we visited her garden for the next 2 months and we could see all the happy veggies and herbs growing in the garden and all the smiles on Archana’s face.

WE THANK ARCHANA FOR OPENING THE DOORS FOR OUR FIRST GARDEN 🙂