Pakistan Gardening Forum

Hi aoa, my name is Muhammad Ammar, I have been lurking around here for quite sometime now and absolutely loving this place, lots of things to learn, I was eager to formally introduce myself but couldn't due to time constraints as its my final year of software engineering hence lot of burden, FYP etc. etc. So today I finally got some free time on hand to post!
I am studying in Lahore and family resides in Okara. Basically I belong to a family which owns bit of land in a village called Tapiala Dost Muhammad (situated on Muridike Narowal road right on edge of infamous Nala Degh) and growing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Yes! that's a word not a typo) Basmati rice for many generations, and for my family its a source of great pride that in taste and aroma non other can match the rice of our fields.

This is me (left one all in black):



But I had not much interest in gardening as I am bit of a cinephile and all I was used to do was watch beautiful cinema in my free time, also by nature I was quite a germophobic . My interest in gardening suddenly developed few months back, here is how it happened: My grandfather who is a avid kitchen gardener was visiting one of his sons in London for few months, and garden was destroyed because of construction work in the house and no one else was present to take care in his absence, so I stepped in.

My grandfather:


This all is his effort all by himself, no mali or anyone, he is awesome "Do It Yourself" person:










That's me picking:








Out side of the house:

Me and he built that big Manjja a while back, very hard stuff, lots of bruises on fingers. But amazing experience for!


Here clear one:

Hornet hive:




Frost:

Very cool intro! And lovely pictures!

Growing in wild:


These are called Putth Kandda in punjabi, and apparently it was used in remedies for cough by hakeems. When ever you go by its bushy plant you get these on your cloths

Welcome, lovely gardens! Hope your interest in gardening remains alive.

This is Scooby Sn:

So as I told before due to construction garden in the house was lost mostly, so I arranged for a Mali and he planted grass and few plants here and there but unfortunately the soil construction people put in was really bad and after 15 days white kallar sort of started to emerge and burned the grass and all other small plants, only two rose plants were thriving which are in the garden for almost 15 years:

Meanwhile my Mali had to leave with his school's trip to northern areas for couple of weeks, So I decided to get my hands dirty (keeping the spirit of my granddad of course), I then arranged for Bhall and got delivered at my doorstep, and Next day I was in full swing to make over:
It was start of June and here I was putting Bhall in lawn all my self.


By night (having ton of breaks and awesome fun) I was finished planting grass:




But at night I was feeling this burning sensation at my back, so next day when I checked:




Yes! that's sun burn, and after taking medication, because of pain and thirsty I was feeling all the time for next whole week, my skin sort of started to peal off like when we peal thin plastic wrapping on products. Needless to say it was pain full but amusing for my siblings
After it healed up my skin is still dark where sun was kissing, and I figured how come no Pakistani cricket player looks cool enough to be hanged on wall in the form of posters and other medium, they are sunshined

Grass after few weeks: