Garden Day!

Yesterday was the Siddhidatta Kulam's weekly garden day. The team of monks joined together to sprout seeds, plant beds, add compost and other nutrients to the soil, weed, mulch and harvest today's lunch. Thanks to an orderly system of maintenance the garden needs to be worked on by the whole kulam just once a week in order to go on producing all the vegetables we need.

A sunny day in the Aadheenam\

s vegetable garden'

Taskforcer Sivarathna help with the harvest

We keep as much variety as possible to ensure a health diet

Taro, eggplant, susu, wing beans and more

Dayanatha adds healthy dirt to one of the beds

These little birds are very friendly, knowing that your work might dig up their breakfast

Nirvani Adinatha turns one of the beds

This tank catches rainwater for any needed uses in the garden

Netting protects more vulnerable crops from birds and chickens

Lord Ganapati resides joyously at the garden\

s center'

Even the fences are planted with crops.

This one is a wingbean vine. Others include gourds and susu.

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