English Conversation - Home kitchen garden

Home kitchen garden

Vikram How lucky you are to have a Home kitchen garden to play in! We do not have any place in front of our house to make a Home kitchen garden. Through my mother keeps plastic pots for planting flowers and growing organic vegetables in the driveway.

Ranjit We use the front Home kitchen garden for growing organic vegetables and flower plants particularly during the summer months, We sit on the lawn in the evenings. During winter sun holidays ,we have our lunch sitting out in the sun

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Vikram Who looks after planting organic vegetables in the home kitchen garden?

Ranjit We have a vegetable gardener (Mali )who comes for an hour everyday, to mowing the lawn , pruning hedges, watering the plants and to gather dry leaves scattered on the lawn.

Vikram Can the vegetable gardener (Mali) do all that work in just one hour?

Ranjit No, he doesn’t do everything on the same day. My mother, my father, my grandfather and I, all help in after care garden.

home kitchen garden

Vikram Doesn’t your grandmother like growing garden?

Ranjit Oh yes, she does. She has a little tulsi plant in the flowers garden, to which she prays every morning. But she is too weak to do any work in the garden except watering the Plants.

Vikram Your garden designing was like this when you came to live in this house?

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Ranjit No, this was unoccupied house for a number of months before we all moved in. The grass on the lawn had all dried up and the flower had died. It seemed no one had been watering them. The landlord had taken unoccupied house insurance

Vikram You must have put in a lot of work to make such a pleasing green lawn and to plant colorful flowers which are blooming happily.

Ranjit My daddy looks after the lawn and vegetable Garden.My mother plants the flowers in home kitchen garden.

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Vikram So your father must be watering the lawn a lot, to make sure grass grows green again.

Ranjit: Daddy wasn’t happy with the quality of the green grassalready planted, for it was full of grass weeds. Just before the rainy season, he called in some labourers and they dug up the whole lawn and removed all the old grass.

Vikram Then, how did he plant the new grass? Did he put in grass seeds?

Ranjit No, he didn’t put down grass seeds to grow the new grass. He brought tuffs of grass from the nursery and then planted them at short distances in lines.

Vikram It is wonderful how the new grass has taken root and spread itself out so evenly.

Ranjit My daddy spends an hour every day after he comes back from work, plucking out weeds. He also puts fertilizers sometimes and watering the grass every evening.

Vikram May I hold the water hose and water the lawn for you today?

Ranjit All right. And in the mean while I‘ll lightly dig up the flower bed.

Vikram Why? Are you taking out the flower growing in the beds?

Ranjit No. But my mother asked me to loosen the soil between the plants. If the earth is too hard the roots do not get enough air and water.

Vikram How beautiful the flowers garden looks! So many colours too, Pink, red, yellow, blue, green, mauve and white. The dark green hedge at the back of flowers garden looks like a high wall.

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Ranjit On Sundays, grandfather cleans the lawn and the flower beds. He piles up the dried leaves in a heap and thenburns the dried leaves and the sticks.

Vikram That must be fun, like a big bonfire.

Ranjit It gives out a horrible blue smoke causing pollution which stings our eyes. Grandmother gets very irritated and coughs a lot.

Vikram It is getting dark and I’ll go home now. I’ve learnt a lot about how your daddy makes up his Home kitchen garden good by now.

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