C is for Cabbage!

You cannot just walk pass this stunning vegetable without getting a temptation to taste its crispy and scrumptious leaves! And when you get a chance, don't miss it! You gotta take a bite!

( that's not for my students :) don't touch others plant ! )

This season Chinese Cabbage proved to be the best growing crop at our vegetable patch at school. It was simply a super hit !

Sowing seeds is easy. Just place the seed 1/4 inch deep in a well mixed soil and water with a shower until plants are few weeks old. We experimented growing this wonderful crop in pots and as well as on a plot.

With the help of Engro's drip irrigation system we are growing some amazing vegetables at our patch and proper watering patterns have shown us great results in the case of Chinese Cabbage.

Kids have started loving the results! There are crops all over the school. They get totally fascinated when they come over to the patch. They would run after butterflies, touch each leaf, search for carrots, and the best part is when I am leading them and as soon as they see the plants, I hear voices from behind, " Wow!! Thats beautiful! ".Ah.. Nothing can match the joy I feel when I hear that. It makes me feel like siting back and just watching them run excitedly between plants.

( and forget about teaching! hehe)

Happy Gardening !

-Zahra

Going on a Winter Break !

It was the last working day before our winter break starts, but our gardeners will be busy in taking care of our plants while we enjoy our vacations.
I am going to miss my plants which are still very young. We visited our vegetable patch to take some photos that will help us to record the progress.

Happy Winters!

-Zahra

( This post was written Dec 2010.)

10th Graders in the Garden

Finally, we were able to take grade tenth back to the garden where they planted their first sweet pea flowers two weeks back.

When I say "we", I mean me and Fahim Zuberi; the gardening expert at our school. We began our little tour around the garden in pre-primary building by going through our vegetable patch to see the progress, and latter stopped by to see how our gourd and mustard plants are doing.

Girls loved cosmos flowers and couldn't stay away from their lovely sweet pea plants that are 5-6 inches tall now and need a support.

Its always is a delight to see students get involved in gardening, and to see them so concerned about their plants. Best part is the walk through the wild to reach our garden.
I think students love it too:).

Happy Gardening !
-Zahra

From My Garden..To Yours !

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. - Goethe

Imagine walking into your office with your head full of plans for the day, and catching a sight of a small little present that waits for you on your desk. Won’t it just make your day?!

It will always bring a smile no matter if it’s just a randomly picked flower or a little note saying “Have a good day!”

Life is all about sharing love and spreading smiles where ever you go. I like to take flowers on my way for my friends. During the time I was working at City PAF Chapter, my Senior Ministers, Ms Ruksana, loved motia flowers, so I would take some for her everyday. Once I forgot but she noticed and complained that she had been waiting for her flowers that morning. It felt amazing that few flowers can become so valuable and can spread a smile on their faces.

Just yesterday, Vice Principal form same school sent a message for me that she is still taking care of water lettuce plants that I gave her last year. It filled my heart with inexpressible delight.

As gardeners we all should practice giving each other something from our own garden. I am lucky to have found amazing gardener friends here at Dawood Public School. I had to give them something special!

Some of my cacti made it to the desks of my friends but many other baby cacti wanted a new home and Fahim (my gardener buddy) agreed to adopt them! I am happy for them.

You must take a walk through your garden, there ought to be something that you can present a friend and make them speechless with joy :)


~ Happy Gardening!

Zahra

A Day in Pictures

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Robert Brault

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. ~Lou Erickson

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~Mirabel Osler

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns,

Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else? ~Betsy Cañas Garmon