Hey Steve, Hello,

We welcome new URGlers around here, but I don't think many of us know much
about your growing conditions and seasons etc, particularly monsoons. We
don't have monsoon season here, although Wimbledon starts on Monday, so you
might think it was a monsoon by about Wednesday. :-)) Still, there probably
won't be any brits left in by then, so the rain won't matter much.
Well monsoons are very wet, with grey skys. Just a lot more rain -
grouchy, wet and drizzly weather.

But I digress. As you say, you should have sown your seeds in Feb, is that
according to the instructions on the packet, and are they instructions for
India? One of the things which is very relevant to plant development is
daylight length, they can tell when the days are getting longer.
Well, the packets don't have any instructions; none of the packets in
the shop did except for a pair of Indo-American hybrid seeds. I'm just
using the web to figure out stuff. H'mm never occurred to me that
day-light length's would matter so much! Wow ! 10 PM and it's sunny and
sets at 4 in winter ! Holy cow ! I see what you mean about gardening
being different in the UK !

We have
quite a large variation between summer and winter, right now it's light till
almost 10pm if it's been a sunny day, in winter it's dark by 4. A friend
told me that in Korea the variation is only about an hour, what is it like
in India?
Yeah, much the same..mornings are earlier now; 5.55 and it's already
light with birds chirping and wakeing me up! In winter it's around
6.20.

I think you should try to get information from either the net or from books
specific to your climate and conditions. And talk to people locally whose
gardens you can see are doing well. If they're anything like British
gardeners they'll be glad to share their knowledge with you.

Not that we won't help when we can of course.

Thanks Steve ! I see what you mean ! And with your cold winters..i've
no idea what winter really is . I know it's cold and it snows *grin*
and you get frost-bite but it's a different mind set all-together. You
have to really work and plan to grow stuff and schedule everything just
right !