Rain, Resilience, and Reseeded Hopes - Restarting the Garden Against the Odds...

Finally, I started working on the garden this weekend. Time is running out fast, and since it's already September, I really should have started much earlier. My original plan was to kick things off at the end of August, but a trip to Kerala and relentless rain became my biggest bottlenecks, keeping me completely out of the garden. It feels like climate change has shifted our weather patterns entirely; ideally, the monsoon rains should have stopped by the end of August, but it is still pouring here. Unless the rain stops and the soil dries out, there is barely anything you can do in an in - ground garden because the mud is just unworkable.

However, in the interest of time, I forced myself to make a move. I just wasn't getting the kick or motivation to do anything because of all these constant weather fluctuations. Watching the skies constantly shift makes you want to delay everything, but delayed gardens yield no harvests. As the saying goes, starting is always the hardest part, so I decided to bypass the heavy soil work and start small. I cleaned up the debris in the area, moved some saplings grown from stems ( I had put them just before going on my trip) into pots, to catch what little light we have, and got about ten pots ready for action.

As I mentioned in my last post, for every gardener, a tragic end is simply the prelude to a new beginning. But that new beginning doesn’t come easy—sometimes we just have to kick ourselves into gear and take that first small step.

Hopefully, I will still be able to catch up with the seasonal timeline if all goes well from here on out. I also brought out a seedling tray to grow French Inca saplings from seeds I collected last year. To be honest, I haven't had the best luck growing saplings from seed using this containerized process in the past. Last year, when my kid was here, we both tried it as a fun little project and ended up failing completely. Not a single seed made it to transplant size.

But hey, trying again and again doesn't hurt anyone! As I always say, gardening involves pure hard work, and no amount of money is wasted in the process. Hard work is excellent for mental health and physical fitness anyway, so even if the seeds fail to sprout, I still gain something valuable from the physical effort and the time spent outdoors. If this attempt doesn't go well, I won't lose hope; I will simply go and buy established saplings from the local nursery once they become available. Unfortunately, even the professional nursery guys haven't been able to start growing their stock because of the rain - the entire growing season in our region has literally shifted by more than a month. It is comforting to know I am not the only one struggling with the timing.

Just as I finished my work and stepped inside, later in the afternoon, the skies opened up and it started raining heavily all over again. To make matters worse, the meteorological department is predicting heavy rainfall for the next few days. It can be incredibly frustrating when nature completely spoils your plans just as you get some momentum, but you really can't fight the elements. The only way forward for a gardener is to keep pushing, keep adapting, and keep trying no matter what the weather forecast says.

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