Vassthubhoomi
layout is planned in area of around 2 acres in Seegehalli, Whitefield. Residents
are interested to have plants in the low rainfall area with bird and insect
attracting trees. With a couple of field visits and interaction with residents
we identified the location of plantings and made markings to dig the pits. The
idea is to support birds like Drangos, Bulbul, Common bee eaters which has
supporting trees in neighboring layouts with trees. After digging the pits and moistened
the pits, we purchased saplings and provided a demonstration of how to do plantation.
Various
benefits of trees and features of sapling species were explained. This idea is
for transferring the knowledge to volunteers, so that they will be learnt and experienced
to take up another tree plantation as lead. We planted 42 saplings with variety
of Singapore cherry, Akasha mallige, basavanapada, Honge, Bangali gida in the
pits and watered the plants. Trees were supported with sticks to grow vertically.
LIFE will be monitoring the saplings and will replace if any of the saplings
need replacement due to damage/disease.
Residents
and children of Vaasthubhoomi layout were participated with LIFE volunteers
like Deepak, Neha, Prasanna etc.
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