📅22-June-2025📅
Alright I used up a lot of vermicompost and coco peat and baloo and still wasn't able to make a raised bed in the correct sense. It is still higher than the normal ground and a lot higher than the drainage lines but isn't a raised bed which I understand.
I had a lot of stuff to do and I couldn't spend al my energy on this so I focussed on transferring the plants from skeleton pots into this ground.
A few things:
1) With the last experiment where i activated the seeds by soaking overnight for seeds that needed activation and instead of platning a few seeds platning a bunch of them inot the pots, this got the best result yet as all but one of the pots grew to flourishing side.
I would also like to point that weather might have been a factor since it's mostly cloudy and rainy weather all day however adding a full green shade Shalimar Multipurpose Shade Net Agro Net Green Net - 75% (Green Colour) (10 ft x 20 ft) ) ensured that even if the weather turned very sunny I would have some protection like I had before.
2) The flower plants I planted under the guava tree in a soil that was clayey, just one of the 40+ survived ultimately and seeing how water logged in that area, I decided to remove it completely. I think it can still work sort of like a greenhouse under the guava tree but this needs soil treatment like I did with the east side (vermicompost+cocopeat+drainy loose soil instead of clay).


📅21-June-2025 and earlier: Summarized by ChatGPT📅
📅Week of 22 June 2025:📅
Created a semi-raised bed using vermicompost, cocopeat, and baloo.
Transplanted successful seedlings from pots into this prepared garden section.
Used green shade net (75%) to protect plants from sun and heavy rain.
Confirmed successful results from soaking seeds overnight and sowing densely.
Abandoned planting site under guava tree due to extreme waterlogging and poor survival rate; plans to improve that soil similar to the east garden section.

📅Week of 15-21 June 2025:📅
Local seeds bought (okra, karela, others), some requiring overnight soaking.
Planted soaked and unsoaked seeds in labeled cups under green shade.
Saw excellent germination and early growth in this round.
Soil mix used: cocopeat, vermicompost, baloo, minimal clay.
Started transplanting successful seedlings into garden soil.


📅Week of 8-14 June 2025:📅
Vermicompost (bulk 50kg) purchased locally at significantly lower cost than online.
Conducted soil pH testing using litmus paper (pH around 7).
Used 5:3:2 mix of cocopeat:vermicompost:baloo for new seedlings.
Continued moving surviving seedlings into garden soil, using amended soil mix.


📅Week of 1-7 June 2025:📅
Built and used Arduino-based soil moisture tester.
Avoided watering above 50% moisture level; identified overwatering in clay-heavy pots.
Moved some previously wilted plants to cocopeat + sand mix to attempt revival.
Many seedlings lost due to heat and poor drainage; began shifting surviving ones to garden.
Used old blue bedsheet to shade garden plants from sun stress.
First batch of 45 vegetable seed cups affected by monsoon rains and thermocol sagging.


📅End of May 2025:📅
Initial round of vegetable and flower seed planting in 100 cups using high-drainage soil mix (sand, vermicompost, little clay).
Indirect sunlight used for sprouting.
~22 sprouts observed; suspected most were coriander.
Began documenting growth experiments.
First signs of wilted plants during extreme daytime heat; missteps in midday watering led to shock.