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Hello, happy gardeners, friends, and community! After a brief pause, I'm excited to share my garden update for April. We have a large garden here, and my husband, @eolianpariah2, has been very active and busy with gardening and organizing. I also contribute in many ways, and I will make a post about that later.

Recently, we had a small visit to a local agriculture research center. They research local fruits such as mangoes, cashews, and kokam, along with other fruits and spices
that thrive in this district.

We had some work to handle at the communal office, so we drove to Vengurla, the nearby town where we take care of all the bureaucratic tasks. After finishing my work, we visited the agriculture research center, where we could buy local fruits, spices, and flowers. I initially planned to buy some, but since we thought we would be traveling back to the north soon and our gardener wasn't very interested in caring for new plants, we decided to cancel our plan and postpone for next time. The garden was nice and cool, a pleasant place where the workers tended to cleaning, grafting, and watering the plants.
. The building may appear simple from the outside, but it is equipped with excellent facilities. The research focuses on organic production, methods for controlling diseases and fungi, and improving soil quality.

Some official staff was busy with paper work. We began with the flower section; there were not so many flowers around here. This is cultivated wild bushes in nice looking flower plant. Lots of tulsi plants were there with different varieties, nicely growing under the shadows of betal nut palms. Different ornamental plants are getting popular in India most apartment owners like them indoors. Many research on mango trees and varieties of grafting. Here order of plants is registered, And then you can pick the chosen plant. somebody comes with you for help. Varieties of plants for sale and very good people for explaination and information. Newly gratfed plants fruits and spices. Some need shade. Some grow outdoors. Big well- water source. many varieties of mango and cashew grafts. Most of them are famous ALFANSO mango grafts. Betel nuts and starfruit plants go very well together. spices like cinnamon, cloves, pepper, nutmeg, some of ready for sale and some newly grafted they looks like sticks. they need special care. It was a huge area, around 40 hectares. but mostly coconut mango and cashew in a variety of grafting developing with new ideas.

We spent some time talking with friendly people time passed very quickly. We should back to home for some other project.
it was a short visit but very informative and something to learn about how people work to make those ready-made plants which we buy in nurseries or garden shops.
At least I learned some and will try next winter when we come back to India. looking forward to it
Thank you very much for stopping by.
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