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Milind Soman and his wife grow pumpkins and many other vegetables in their home garden
He also revealed that the caretaker at his home had given the greenhouse a simple, charming name: “Sabzee ka Ghar.
In an Instagram post, he jokingly called himself a “bearded farmer,” something that Ankita had wanted him to become, and credited her for encouraging the idea. Over time, he has shared many glimpses of his home-grown yield on Instagram, Milind once posted a video of himself plucking a large, fresh pumpkin from his garden, along with the caption, “Gardening efforts bearing big fat fruit along with bottle gourd, tomatoes, brinjals, chillies, beans, cabbages, cauliflower, methi, palak and radish. Pumpkin for the next five days I suppose,” while asking followers to share their favourite pumpkin recipes. Milind’s garden is not just a one-fruit affair. Along with pumpkins, he grows bottle gourd, tomatoes, brinjals, chillies, beans, cabbages, cauliflower, methi, palak and radish, as he talked about in an Instagram post where he joked that he had “pumpkin for the next five days. Ankita Konwar posted her own harvest update too, mentioning that they also grow muli, bhindi, and more along with pumpkins, calling it “gardening at its best. Their posts painted a picture of a genuinely thriving kitchen garden, not just a lockdown hobby that faded quickly. Use a mix of garden soil and compost in pots or grow bags.