You all know that Chennai's climate is too harsh to grow cool climate plants like carrot, cabbage, cauliflower etc. Therefore, I made green shade at my terrace to try out cool climate plants.I covered 850 sq.ft. of my terrace space with green shade net. To cover all the sides, I needed 1400 sq.ft. of net (appx. 75% sunlight reduction net. There were 50% & 90% shade nets also available). One bundle of standard size (3 mt. X 50 mt.) net costed me Rs.2.16 per sq.ft.
To support the shade net, I erected bamboo structure first. The cost of one medium size bamboo pole(around 16 feet long) was Rs.65. There were various sizes bamboo poles available ranging It costed me around Rs.8000/- for covering 850 sq.ft. terrace space. The requried material were bamboo poles, shade net, ropes, stay wire, clamps, nails etc. Since I did the labour work myself, there was no labour cost added.
Hope I can now able to grow my dream vegetables. Wait and see for my next update. Bye.
