Monday, December 8, 2008

Rahul sows a seed...

Rahul was very excited today - he saw a small green stem out of the pot peep out. Few weeks ago, when he heard about his biology teacher talked about plants he was very interested. Even when he was at picnic (at mysore), he had sat near a brook and wondered how the plants got there.

A week ago, Rahul with his parents went to nursery, bought 16 pots, mud, manure and brought it home. They were are excited about buying pots and growing plants, Rahul had have seen lots of plants in his dads friend Ganesh-uncle's house. After hearing his teacher and seeing Ganesh uncle's care for the plants, Rahul too wanted to grow a small nursery of plants, take care of them like how Ganesh uncle does. He was excited to learn about those and he was very eager to seem them grow. Rahul and his parents picked a nice spot in their balcony where sunlight fell (he knew sunlight is essential for plants to grow), they mixed the mud and manure; then they filled the pots with 10 cups of this mixture. Rahul planted the cosmos seed - he loved the this plant a lot, since the plant had very bright and beatuiful yellow and orange colour flowers which were his favorite. He then dispersed the seed on the top of the mixture and covered them with one cup of mud-manure mixture. He watered the pots carefully...and cleaned up the place behind them. 

Since then, he has been watering the plants. For the past few days, Rahul checked on the pots regularly and watering them regularly. Today he saw a tiny plant peeping out... Rahul was very excited, he called Ganesh uncle, and shared his news and told him that in 2-3 months, he will be able to see the bright yellow and orange flowers right on his balcony...

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