A new tree nursery in Ahmedabad Gujarat
Project report from Manasvi
The other day we travelled by Jeep to Idar Mountain to collect black soil for our new nursery in Ahmedabad. Idar Mountain is situated about 110 km from Ahmadabad.
I took with me a spade and a wide shallow iron bucket to dig soil. We brought ten big bags black soil back in our Jeep from the Mountain’s forest area. In Ahmedabad we made a heap of all the soil and mixed it with some other soil and sieved it into a fine mixture, to which we then added some cow manure.
The quantity of soil received was enough to fill 2300 small black plastic bags, into which we then introduced seeds and seedballs. This bags are getting watered daily for 3 to 4 days to germinate the seeds.
We are experimenting with this lot to see, what place is most suitable for the trees to grow fast, so we placed half of the freshly planted bags into the sun, while the other half got placed in the shade.
We have also treated another batch with a solution of natural (organic) ingredients, that was specially prepared by Anadiji.
We are researching this different methods to find out how our trees will grow best and we expect the results after some days.
After completing the job in Ahmedabad I travelled to Madhavpur (Ghed) together with six friends. This friends are volunteers and support our project free of cost. We rented a room in Madhavpur to keep the six boxes of seed balls which we had brought with us. Then we went to meet with the management of the Madhavpur Ashram to coordinate our work.
As landscaping is still going on, we decided to start the work in this are after three months and we will need more seed balls for this Project. So now I am again busy making more seed balls with my family at Ahmadabad.
