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Ganpati festival preparations in progress: Terracotta Clay handmade Ganpati

Handmade Ganpati Idol for Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrations Teracotta Clay Handmade Ganapati Idol

Hand Pollination did wonders in my vegetable garden for bottle gourd plant.

I planted bitter gourd (karela) and bottle gourds this year in my vegetable garden. The vines are creeping in all directions and bearing lovely flowers.  Bitter gourd and  Bottle gourd  Bottle gourd creeping everywhere I am getting a very nice produce from the bitter gourd plant  starting with small pretty yellow flowers and converting into pretty spiky karelas. One of my colleague at work even described it as "kind a like dinosaur" due to its spike. Spiky Karela - Bitter gourd  But all the baby fruits on the bottlegourd plant appeared to be rotting or dying on the vine or falling off the plant before developing into a fully grown fruit. I did a lot of search on Google and found out why the baby fruits were dropping off. The reason for this disaster was inadequate pollination.  The bottle gourd plants produce both male and female flowers and are not self pollinating. They need help from pollinators to carry pollen ...

Ganpati decorations for the Ganpati festival celebrations for the past 6 years.

Its that time of the year again when I have to start planning what decorations I want to do this year for the Ganpati festival starting on the 1st Sept. I was looking through the photos of the  Ganpati decorations from previous years. So I thought of sharing the Ganpati decorations photos from each of the 6 years in the U.S.A. Ganpati decoration @ LasCruces, NM -2005 Ganpati Decoration @ El Paso, TX - 2006 Ganpati Decoration @ Oxford, OH - 2007 Ganpati Decoration @ Trenton, OH - 2008 Ganpati Decoration @ Mount Vernon, OH - 2009 Ganpati Decoration @ Mount Vernon, OH - 2010 Now I am in a dilemma of what next should I use to make the Ganpati temple in my Ganpati decorations for this year.. Suggestions please!!

Happy Independence day India!

A very happy Independence day to all my Indian friends! जय हिन्द !! मेरा भारत महान !!