The Secret Garden

By Vasanth, Grade 10 D

October 22, 2019

Spells of rains these past few days have been detrimental to our planned activities for the day at the school garden. Although we could not do the planned school garden activities, we did get to view this secret project that the organic farming team has recently been working on! The project is a sky garden!

This is a small extension at our second school building on the third floor. Over here plants, mainly creepers grow. Since it is a small but long extension with a mesh, it is ideal for climbers rather than big plants, trees and bushes. The type of vegetation growing here are: snake gourd, ridge gourd, bottle gourd, devil’s backbone /pirandai (in Tamil), red malabar spinach, and blue butterfly pea flower creeper / shankupushpam (in Tamil). It was interesting to see that in this compact, narrow strip of building with nothing but a metal mesh standing between you and a fall from the third floor (if you push the mesh!) we’ve created a sky garden, which the classrooms on this floor can see from their windows. The organic farming team brought massive cement cuboid like pots with holes in the bottom filled with biodegradable waste and compost and soil for the plants.