Harsh's Writings - Gardening and Economies of Efforts
Here is a piece of my mind in the last fortnight! Do give it a read and tell me how good or bad was! I really appreciate honest feedbacks and my letters are all about saying things straight from the heart, without any filters! Gardening and Economies of EffortsDiving deeper into the phenomenon called gardening and lessons from it .Hello! This is my 9th Edition of writing these write-ups that I term as open letters. In case you have just landed, you can check out any of my previous write-ups-
Raj’s VersionGarden aur ParishramGardens are always quite pleasant, they have something soothing about them which goes beyond the visual aspect of it; they please the mind and the soul. Strangely enough, we don’t realize the kind of efforts that go behind it unless we get into the mud ourselves. I grew up with a small garden at home, my mom loves plants so she used to manage and nurture them. I never really gave it much of a thought until the pandemic hit, lockdown played a pivotal role in my love affair with gardens. I can’t recollect the precise moment but as I spent more time at home and on my balcony, I felt that it’s a decent size balcony, we could have a few plants here. That’s how it began. Just dropping this idea to my mom was enough, she was already enthusiastic about it and we went off to get a plant for my balcony. I must say I thoroughly enjoy the process each time, going to the nursery and browsing through so many saplings and then finalising on one or a few of them to bring home. Feels like a sort of adoption process. What I didn’t know was that this was only the first step, I took it for granted that once we got the sapling the job was done. We then had to get a pot, and what’s even more we needed soil! Now where to go for some nice fertile soil in our concrete jungles? The urban life we have built around us has little space for the kind of soil we need. And here began another fun journey. We hopped into our car with a bucket and digging equipment and went towards the outskirts where some agricultural land is still there, and when we requested the farmers there they were happy to allow us in and take some of their soil. This part only talks about where we got all the necessary things, now we had to do the other half of putting it all to use, planting the sapling properly in the pot, deciding where to put it, and moving it around like crazy. I must say the whole process felt so rewarding, fun, and peaceful that I couldn’t have enough of it. This soon became a routine even after the lockdowns were all lifted, every weekend mom and I would be off to get the sapling, soil, pot, later even fertilizers and whatnot. I feel plants need as much love as humans do. And they can love you back equally well. This fall my whole garden dried up; with crack lines running deep and wild into the soil, in no particular direction though. The faded colour of the soil crushed my soul, it seemed upset with me, like a disgruntled lover whose hand I had promised to hold but couldn’t, only after a few miles. Flowers no longer see where they once blossomed in abundance, and the leaves all yellow. I realised I had stopped spending time with them, we never stop to think as long as flowers are still there and the leaves all green. This is what kills the plant. Now I stop many times a day to take a break from life and spend time in my garden. Gradually the soil feels better, and so does the self. I have also realized a garden calms me down so much. It makes me feel closer to nature with tiny little sparrows and other birds often coming to visit and even otherwise just the presence of these plants makes you feel the natural element. I guess we all have it within us but an external garden has the power and energy to activate it in a quiet soothing manner. No matter how much effort and to care it requires, in the end, I think I can comfortably say it is all worth it. Standing amidst those lovely flowers and your eyes feeling the soothing colors of those plants, you can gladly say: Dil garden garden ho gaya. |
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