Summer Care

If you don't want to worry about looking at your garden in a pathetic condition, then you should be knowing how to act early and if you want to act early you should know how to care...

If you want to see a healthy, lush garden during hot summers, then you should know how to "summer care."

I'm ready to shed light...

Are you ready?... 

 If yes! 

Register for this insightful session on "Summer Care"

Welcome to Holistic Gardening!  I'm  Guru Sunny Boppana, a gardening coach who helps people to get bumper harvests.

Please, visit the link below to know more about the facilitator:

www.tinyurl.com/guruboppana

Event Details:                                         "Summer Care"   

Day: Saturday, February 20, 2021

                                                                  Time: 02:00PM until 05:00PM                 

                                                                  Venue:  Google Meet
(A link will be sent to your registered WhatsApp number an hour before the commencement of the session).

 
Contributions: This Master-class is being offered in the spirit of Gift-Ecology. It means, "Contributing from the heart". We do not have a fixed fee for the session. However, We expect your contributions; So, we do suggest how much to contribute to participants who find it challenging to evaluate the session. Your contributions will actually help us to cover upfront costs, sustain ourselves, and help us in continuing our work. Having said this, 

If you are unable to contribute for reasons best known to you, please let us know, We will figure out a way for you...

Bring along:  Please try to bring the following while attending the session:

0. Full of energy and enthusiasm
1. Notes, pencil, and eraser.
2. Water bottle

3. A good computer in proper condition and other hardware. A good internet connection.

Please write a note to me through WhatsApp or SMS on the challenges you have with gardening and your expectations from the session. This will help me to design the class according to your needs to make it more participant centric.

We are looking for confirmed registrations. If in case you are in a dilemma or unsure of attending the master class for your own reasons, please register when you are clear enough before the registration deadline.

Registrations deadline/ will be closed by Friday, February 19, 2020 @ 08:00PM

Please make sure, you set up things ready and available as early as possible, before 01:45pm during the session. 

I request you to refrain from having cross conversations and attending phone calls during the session, it disturbs everyone. Please, mute your mic during the session and for any questions that need to be addressed, please put them in the chat box to address it later on.

 The agenda of the session will be sent to your registered mobile number through WhatsApp or SMS by Friday night @ 08:00PM, Once we are done with finalizing participants.
                            
Important to note: We cannot fill a cup that is already full. So, please be open to how the process flows. 

To Register, Fill up the form below:

 
Please call or message us, once you are done with the registration!

Best wishes...
Guru Sunny Boppana
(Gardening Coach)

Bountiful Harvests (Vegetables)

If you can't commit yourself to work towards a self-sufficient garden that caters to your edible needs, then this workshop is not for you. 

If you are committed to working towards bountiful harvests that gives your family an organic vegetarian feast, then you must attend this session to revamp your green skills...

Welcome to Holistic Gardening!  I'm  Guru Sunny Boppana, a gardening coach who helps people to work towards bumper harvests.

(Bumper yield of ladies finger from my farm on a single day. This yield was taken on a single day from just 5 plants).

Please, visit the link below to know more about the facilitator:

www.tinyurl.com/guruboppana

Event Details: "Bountiful Harvests (vegetables)"  

                                           

                 

                                     Day: Saturday, February 13, 2021

                                  Time: 02:00PM until 05:00PM                 

                                  Venue:  Google Meet
(A link will be sent to your registered WhatsApp number an hour before the commencement of the session).

 
Contributions: This Master-class is being offered in the spirit of Gift-Ecology. It means, "Contributing from the heart". We do not have a fixed fee for the session. However, We expect your contributions; So, we do suggest how much to contribute to participants who find it challenging to evaluate the session. Your contributions will actually help us to cover upfront costs, sustain ourselves, and help us in continuing our work. Having said this, 

If you are unable to contribute for reasons best known to you, please let us know, We will figure out a way for you...

Bring along:  Please try to bring the following while attending the session:

0. Full of energy and enthusiasm

1. Notes, pencil, and eraser.

2. Water bottle

3. A good computer in proper condition and other hardware. A good internet connection.

Please write a note to me through WhatsApp or SMS on the challenges you have with gardening and your expectations from the session. This will help me to design the class according to your needs to make it more participant centric.

We are looking for confirmed registrations. If in case you are in a dilemma or unsure of attending the master class for your own reasons, please register when you are clear enough before the registration deadline.

Registrations deadline/ will be closed by Friday, February 12, 2020 @ 08:00PM

Please make sure, you set up things ready and available as early as possible, before 01:45pm

I request you to refrain from having cross conversations and attending phone calls during the session, it disturbs everyone. Please, mute your mic during the session and for any questions that need to be addressed, please put them in the chatbox to address it later on.

 The agenda of the session will be sent to your registered mobile number through WhatsApp or SMS by Friday night @ 09:00PM, Once we are done with finalizing participants.
                            
Important to note: We cannot fill a cup that is already full. So, please be open to how the process flows. 

To Register, Fill up the form below:

 
Please call or message us, once you are done with the registration!

Best wishes...
Guru Sunny Boppana
(Gardening Coach)

MASTER CLASS ON SEED SAVING & GROWING MORE FOOD IN LESS SPACE

 

Want to explore and understand traditional methods of seed-saving? and making local seeds.

Want to learn, how to utilize space efficiently to grow veggies, herbs, and fruits in such a way it has multiple benefits like pest protection, better nourishment, better taste, and much more...

Then here you are, This 3-hour master class will help you to master the above.

Please, visit the link below to know more about the facilitator:

www.tinyurl.com/guruboppana

Event Details: "Seed-saving and Growing more food in less space"  

                                           

                           

                                                                         

                         Day: Saturday, December 26, 2020

                         Time: 02:00PM until 05:00PM
                   
                         Venue:  Google Meet
(A link will be sent to your registered WhatsApp number an hour before the commencement of the session).

 
Contributions: This Master-class is being offered in the spirit of Gift-Ecology. It means, "Contributing from the heart". We do not have a fixed fee for the session. However, We expect your contributions; So, we do suggest how much to contribute to participants who find it challenging to evaluate the session. Your contributions will actually help us to cover upfront costs, sustain ourselves, and help us in continuing our work. Having said this, 

If you are unable to contribute for reasons best known to you, please let us know, We will figure out a way for you...

Bring along:  Please try to bring the following while attending the session:

0. Full of energy and enthusiasm

1. Notes, pencil, and eraser.

2. Water bottle

3. A good computer in proper condition and other hardware. A good internet connection.

Please write a note to me through WhatsApp or SMS on the challenges you have with gardening and your expectations from the session. This will help me to design the class according to your needs to make it more participant centric.

We are looking for confirmed registrations. If in case you are in a dilemma or unsure of attending the master class for your own reasons, please register when you are clear enough before the registration deadline.

Registrations deadline/ will be closed by Friday, December 25, 2020 @ 08:00PM

Please make sure, you set up things ready and available as early as possible, before 01:45pm

I request you to refrain from having cross conversations and attending phone calls during the session, it disturbs everyone. Please, mute your mic during the session and for any questions that need to be addressed, please put them in the chatbox to address it later on.

 The agenda of the session will be sent to your registered mobile number through WhatsApp or SMS by Friday night @ 09:00PM, Once we are done with finalizing participants.
                            
Important to note: We cannot fill a cup that is already full. So, please be open to how the process flows. 

To Register, Fill up the form below:

 
Please call or message us, once you are done with the registration!

Best wishes...
Guru Sunny Boppana
(Gardening Coach)

3-Hour Master Class on "No-Waste Kitchen Gardening 101"

Are you looking for help in dealing with your kitchen waste?

Want to know how to convert your kitchen waste into wonderful growth boosters and pest repellants to nurture your garden?

Want to know traditional methods of seed-saving?

Want to know the method of growing food from your kitchen scraps?

Would you like to know how to clean your kitchen vessels, house, and lavatories with your kitchen waste?

This 3-hour interactive master class will help you to learn the above through discussions, demonstrations, and activities.

About the facilitator: www.tinyurl.com/guruboppana




Event Details: "3-Hour Master Class on No-Waste Kitchen Gardening 101"  

                                 

                                                                             

                         Day: Saturday, October 19, 2019

                        Time: 10:00AM until 01:00PM
                   
                      Venue:  #31, 3rd Main Road, 
                                  Next to IOB, Besant Nagar,
                                  Besant Nagar.
                 Landmark: Next to Indian Overseas Bank, Besant Nagar Branch,                                        Near to Besant Nagar Bus-station.

                         GPS:  Cups and Teas   


For venue related queries, contact Mahima: +91-8608740212


Contributions: This Master class is being offered in the spirit of Gift-Ecology. It means, "Contributing from the heart". We do not have a fixed fee for the session. However, We expect your contributions, So, we do suggest how much to contribute to participants who find it challenging to evaluate the session. Your contributions will actually help us to cover upfront costs, sustain ourselves and help us in continuing our work. Having said this, 

If you are unable to contribute for reasons best known to you, please let us know, We will figure out a way for you...

Bring along:  Please try to bring the following while attending for the session:

0. Full of energy and enthusiasm

1. Notes, pencil, and eraser.

2. Shredded vegetable, fruit peels,
 few fresh fruit pieces of any two different fruits (200g),
 lemon peels, dried leaves, flowers, and crushed eggshells(one small bag)

3. Jaggery powder (as much as you can, say 100g)

4. Plastic bottles, Medium-Sized glass jars (one or two)

5. seeds and saplings If you feel have (To exchange/share/gift with other participants. It's okay if you are not able to).

6. coconut outer fiber and

7. Drinking water(during commuting) and snacks (Preferably fruits) to share during the break (only if you are okay from the heart)

(you can learn things in practice, So, please try to bring the above).

Please write a note to me through WhatsApp or SMS on the challenges you have with gardening and your expectations from the session. This will help me to design the class according to your needs to make it more participant centric.

We are looking for confirmed registrations. If in case you are in a dilemma or unsure of attending the master class for your own reasons, please register when you are clear enough before the registration deadline.

Registrations deadline/ will be closed by Friday, October 18, 2019 @ 08:00PM

Please make sure, you reach the venue as early as possible, before 10:00AM

I request you to refrain from having cross conversations and attending phone calls during the workshop, it disturbs everyone. 

 The agenda of the session will be sent to your registered mobile number through WhatsApp or SMS by Friday night @ 09:00PM, Once we are done with finalizing participants.
                            
Important to note: We cannot fill a cup that is already full. So, please be open to how the process flows. 

To Register, Fill up the form below:

 
Please call or message us, once you are done with the registration!

Best wishes...
Guru Sunny Boppana
(Gardening Coach)

Growing Roses! For those who love themselves...

 

Growing roses is to love ourselves. If you have difficulties in loving your self. This write-up will make you understand what went wrong...Here you are...

1. When you get a plant from a nursery or a cutting from a friend. You have to know a few things like the origin of the plant, variety and if it is cutting, make sure it is properly pruned. like a slanted cutting in between the junction nodes.

2. If you compost yourself, it will be good. otherwise, we don't know what went in. A nutrient-rich compost is needed for proper growth of the plant. check how to make a proper compost by visiting the link below:
For uncooked kitchen waste composting and For cooked waste composting if you are a beginner, I suggest you to start composting with uncooked waste.

3. Another most important thing, Lighting. Lighting is very important for roses. If you have access to good intensive afternoon sunlight, then it will add much value to your plant growth. Don't plant or keep the plant in shade.

4. Don't do overwatering. Check the moisture, before you water and at the same time don't leave it dry in your absence. If you are using a container, then for the first time, water it fully until the water comes out of the container's outlet. Afterwards, check moisture content and water if required. If you do overwatering, it results in root rot.

5. Do proper mulching at the base of the plant to prevent soil erosion.

6. Apply a handful of  Homemade compost once in 15 to 20 days. 

7. Don't add kitchen scraps directly at the base of the plant. 

8. If you have any issues with insects, pests and growth. refer the following links and act accordingly.

For pest repellents and growth promoters  and Method of applying pest repellents and growth boosters

I hope this helps. This write -up is based on many FAQ I used to get from most of the passionate gardeners. If you have any further questions, which you felt unaddressed, please put them in the comments box. 

How and when to apply pest repellents and growth promoters: Methodology

How to use pest repellants? When to actually use them? 

I have been using lots of growth promoters and pest repellants but no use. If you have such questions, then this write up will definitely help you to check what went wrong.

Here is the checklist:

1. What went into your potting mix? Is that nutritious enough to support the plant? Your potting mix should be able to nurture, porous, well-drained and should be able to retain the moisture.

2. How about the seed or sapling? Where did you get it from? If you get seed from your previous harvest and if its a hybrid, it will be difficult and sometimes not possible to propagate it to a plant. My recommendation is to use an open-pollinated seed. and if you want to propagate a plant from cuttings, then use a cutting from a healthy plant.

3. What goes into your kitchen compost making is very important. Apart from kitchen scraps, Add a little bit of cinnamon powder, few cashew nuts/peanuts, and any other seed powder. This will actually support the plant in proper root growth and tasty fruit.

If you follow the above, less likely are the chances of pest, even if it comes, it will not be able to abrupt the growth of the plants. Because the plant is very strong.

We are humans, we do make mistakes, here are the troubleshooting tips!

Your plant will tell you more if you can understand the language...

Too much or too less of applying growth promoters and pest repellant will also create many problems... have to strike a balance.

Visit the link below to know how to make growth promoters and pest repellents. 

https://gurusunnyboppana.blogspot.com/2019/05/pest-repellants-and-growth-promoters.html

1. Keep an eye on leaves, branches and the stem of the plant. it tells you many things. If the leaves are drooping below, it is an indication that they need water. Also, cross-check with the potting mix whether it is dry or moist. If it's dry, sprinkle some water. potting mix or soil mix plays an important role here. it should be able to drain too much moisture and it should also retain the moisture. To strike a balance, you have to take the potting mix ratio very seriously.

2. If you are overwatering, it attracts lots of other tiny worms like maggots and other worms which will eventually result in root rot. Especially, if your potting mix is not able to drain the excess water. The plant will not be able to uptake nutrients properly and slowly the plant will die if appropriate action is not taken.

3. All the Plant issues emerge from improper potting mix, improper seed, and improper watering.

4. The stage of a plant during seed to budding is very crucial. Whatever the nurturing you do here either help the plant or spoil it. Too much of adding fermented fruit juice will create problems like a plant will have issues with budding. Since too much of fermented fruit juice makes a plant bushy. it means all the nutrition you gave was spent on making leaves. The plant is busy in digestion and assimilation of nutrients instead of making a different food which is responsible for the formation of buds.

If you think you have overdone. stop adding FFJ and sprinkle sour buttermilk there.

5. Too much of adding rasam or 3G buttermilk solution and ash will actually repel beneficial microorganisms. Strike a balance. Follow the instructions carefully.

I hope this helps you. I will be modifying this write up based on your understanding and for adding more solutions to FAQs. If you have more questions, put them in the comments box. 

"DIY Gardening 101"

Have challenges in meeting your Gardening Goals? Looking for a Coach to guide you in the process?

Given below are the common challenges people face in their gardening journies...

Time, energy and resource challenges:



Will I be able to spend 01-02 hours on gardening every day?

I'm Worrying about the upfront costs involved in gardening and want to know the simple and economical way of gardening

I have water scarcity. I don't have enough space. I have a minimum of sunlight access. 


Physical and Mental Challenges:



I want to pursue gardening for my physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being.

Thinking (will gap)......of starting a kitchen/flower/herb/ornamental garden on my terrace/balcony/backyard? thinking for a long time but unable to start

I'm confused and bombarded with watching YouTube videos and knowing other information on Gardening

I'm looking for a simpler and easiest ways of gardening.

I have challenges with pests and rodents

Wisdom Challenges:



I want to explore the different and multiple uses of plants in our everyday life.

I don't know how to begin and keep it flowing (Skill Gap)

I want to know the plant care to be taken in different seasons. Don't know what to plant according to Chennai climate.


I'm willing to know the easiest way of making DIY natural growth boosters and pest repellents

I'm looking for practical ideas to recycle my kitchen solid and liquid waste into humus-rich compost and to tackle the water scarcity. 

I Want to know, how to re-use the reject water from AC and RO plant

If you find challenging yourselves in any of the above, then here you are! 

Here is a kick-starter opportunity to learn some practical knowledge required to start a garden from scratch.

About the facilitator: www.tinyurl.com/guruboppana

Some More info about the workshop: 

1. To make you realize what is needed to start a garden you envisioned, considering your daily routine pattern.

2. To support you and to hold you in the process of dealing with your mistakes.



Details Of The Event:  "DIY Gardening 101"                                                                                
                         Day: Sunday, August 25, 2019

                        Time: 09:00AM until 01:00PM
                   
                      Venue:  #31, 3rd Main Road, 
                                  Next to IOB, Besant Nagar,
                                  Besant Nagar.
                 Landmark: Next to Indian Overseas Bank, Besant Nagar Branch,                                        Near to Besant Nagar Bus-station.

                         GPS:  Cups and Teas   



For venue related queries, contact Mahima: +91-8608740212


Contributions: This workshop is being offered in the spirit of Gift-Ecology. It means, "Contributing from the heart". We do not have a fixed charge for the workshop. However, we expect your contributions. They will actually help us to cover upfront costs, sustain ourselves and help us in continuing our work. Having said this, 

If you are unable to contribute for reasons best known to you, It's okay. There will be no restrictions. We will figure out a way for you...

Contributions can also be like monetary funds, offering space/venue, offering skill/product/services that will help me to continue my work.

Bring along:  Please try to bring the following while attending for the workshop:

0. Full of energy and enthusiasm

1. Notes, pencil, and eraser.

2. Shredded vegetable, fruit peels,
 few fresh fruit pieces of any two different fruits (200g),
 lemon peels, dried leaves, flowers, and crushed eggshells(one small bag)

3. Jaggery powder (as much as you can, say 100g)

4. Plastic bottles, Medium-Sized glass jars (one or two)

5. seeds and saplings If you feel have (To exchange/share/gift with other participants)

6. coconut outer fiber and

7. Drinking water(during commuting) and snacks (Preferably fruits) to share during the break (only if you are okay from the heart)

(you can learn things in practice, So, please try to bring the above).

Please write a note to me through WhatsApp or SMS on challenges you have with gardening and your expectations from the workshop. This will help me to design the workshop according to your needs to make it more participant centric.

We are looking for confirmed registrations. If in case you are in a dilemma or unsure of attending the workshop for your own reasons, please register when you are clear enough before the registration deadline.

Registrations deadline/ will be closed by Saturday, August 24, 2019 @ 08:00PM

Please make sure, you reach the venue as early as possible, before 09:00AM

I request you to refrain from having cross conversations and attending phone calls during the workshop, it disturbs everyone. 

Workshop Agenda will be sent to your registered mobile number through WhatsApp or SMS by Saturday night @ 09:00PM, Once we are done with finalizing participants.
                            
Important to note: We cannot fill a cup which is already full. So, please be open to how the process flows. 




To Register, Fill up the form below:

 
Please call or message us, once you are done with the registration!

Best wishes...
Guru Sunny Boppana
(Gardening Coach)