Qatar: Four green thumbs in Qatar on nurturing nature in backyard
This led him to pioneer the ‘Qatar Gardeners’, a community of over five thousand garden enthusiasts sharing knowledge, feedback and encouraging each other to make their backyards into a greener space.
By Anisha Bijukumar & Alexandra Evangelista
The Peninsula
21 Mar 2023
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Apart from her love for gardening, it was her desire to prepare fresh organic food that encouraged her to get into kitchen gardening. “I concentrated on vegetables in the hope to produce something organic for my family. But soon these vegetables became an item to gift to my friends. During the farming season, from August to March, the only thing I buy is onion from outside. There are some plants like Spinach and Bringal and Moringa which can be grown throughout the year. Also, certain vegetables can be frozen and saved for the remaining months of the year,” Jumna adds.
It was when her garden started giving returns that Jumna decided to expand and add water lillies to the mix, which has now reached over 80 in numbers. “Each water lilly has an ID and I have about 80 of them now. Initially, I got them couriered from different states in India and then there are some that are from Malaysia,” says Jumna.
