arnprasad
Well-Known Member
Hi All,
I live in Bangalore and am fortunate to be unemployed and also stay at my parents house that has a 1000 sft garden space.
While the house itself is 40 years old, we moved in 2010 and ever since, even while employed, was bitten by the gardening bug.
Over the past 13 years, I have tried everything in my house - from growing vegetables to growing all sorts of flower plants.
Stopped growing vegetables few years back as it is too much work for too little output - particularly we are heavy veggie eaters...so 3 months of toil on a plant would yield few hundred grams of veg...waste of time. plus of course lots of bugs.
Then thought flower gardening is better as I can spray all sorts of insecticides and pesticides. So for the past ten years or so....have not only been buying plants of nurseries - local nurseries, lalbagh, indo american...and whole salers at places like Doodaladamara...etc. And also been buying seeds online from sellers like plantsman, namdhar, biocarve, trustbasket, seedsnpots plus of course lalbagh ones.
and recently have been into rose gardening and buying plants from Bengal based sellers like Pushpanjali Pranabir/Asoke...etc.
Over the past ten years I have been checking the net for online forums like this for terrace gardening...particularly for flowers...but have been unsuccessful. There used to be a guy called geekgardener who had a forum...then he started his own business and seems that fell out of the way.
there are few facebook groups on organic gardening....not of much use for me.
So any folks here who are seriously into gardening...mainly into flowers?
The reason I ask is that most Indian flower seed sellers sell dodgy quality seeds. The best of course are imported ones like Panam or benary or Sakata and such. Problem is that while Indian packets you get for 30-100 each.....these MNC ones go for 600-3000 per packet. Hence it will be good for folks to gather together and buy such MNC seeds and share between themselves...so that for 100 each..we can lay our hands on MNC seeds rather than buy questionable local ones.
Hence eager to hear if any folks on this forum are in the same boat...
As always..thanks in advance for all your help and suggestions!!....and of course pardon the poor english and grammatical errors
I live in Bangalore and am fortunate to be unemployed and also stay at my parents house that has a 1000 sft garden space.
While the house itself is 40 years old, we moved in 2010 and ever since, even while employed, was bitten by the gardening bug.
Over the past 13 years, I have tried everything in my house - from growing vegetables to growing all sorts of flower plants.
Stopped growing vegetables few years back as it is too much work for too little output - particularly we are heavy veggie eaters...so 3 months of toil on a plant would yield few hundred grams of veg...waste of time. plus of course lots of bugs.
Then thought flower gardening is better as I can spray all sorts of insecticides and pesticides. So for the past ten years or so....have not only been buying plants of nurseries - local nurseries, lalbagh, indo american...and whole salers at places like Doodaladamara...etc. And also been buying seeds online from sellers like plantsman, namdhar, biocarve, trustbasket, seedsnpots plus of course lalbagh ones.
and recently have been into rose gardening and buying plants from Bengal based sellers like Pushpanjali Pranabir/Asoke...etc.
Over the past ten years I have been checking the net for online forums like this for terrace gardening...particularly for flowers...but have been unsuccessful. There used to be a guy called geekgardener who had a forum...then he started his own business and seems that fell out of the way.
there are few facebook groups on organic gardening....not of much use for me.
So any folks here who are seriously into gardening...mainly into flowers?
The reason I ask is that most Indian flower seed sellers sell dodgy quality seeds. The best of course are imported ones like Panam or benary or Sakata and such. Problem is that while Indian packets you get for 30-100 each.....these MNC ones go for 600-3000 per packet. Hence it will be good for folks to gather together and buy such MNC seeds and share between themselves...so that for 100 each..we can lay our hands on MNC seeds rather than buy questionable local ones.
Hence eager to hear if any folks on this forum are in the same boat...
As always..thanks in advance for all your help and suggestions!!....and of course pardon the poor english and grammatical errors
