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With grapes and pears, see how their gardens grow
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Home gardeners in Nuwara Eliya have shown that fruits that we usually import can be grown in thecool climes of little England.
D.W.A.D.Somawathi from Lady Maclom Road showed off his grape vine that has been giving him a crop twice a year. “I get 10kg of grapes at a turn,” he said.
Premasiri Edirisinghe also from Lady Maclom Road, is proud of his well maintained cultivation of pears.
‘The cyclone in 1978 destroyed the pear cultivation completely but some able cultivators took managed to regrow the pears,” said a proud Mr. Edirisinghe.
Home gardening has come to the fore once again in the face of the COVID -19 pandemic and it is the responsibility of authorities to take steps to encourage these cultivators, say these home gardeners
Pix and text by Shelton Hettiarachchi
