Greetings, Fellow Green Lifeforms Caretakers And Other Home Grown Stuff Fans!
Coming in with a report on what would be a normal Mid June gardening experience for me.
The main thing that sets my case apart from most of the dedicated gardeners around her is the fact that I have to long distance farm, meaning I have very limited time each week...not even every week...that I can spend in the garden. Under this circumstance, more than one acre of a village yard becomes huge. Practically unmanageable unless I reach some natural equilibrium where my presence is not required.
But initially, I have to give the little dudes a good start in life.
Like these fellows here...
This is my favorite project. I hope one day I shall be a bamboo dealer.
By incremental, I mean I spend minutes on various tasks and each task is only partially done. More...next week and so on.
Doing what I can. I think my efforts do matter.
Some of those were not planned by me, though. My brother has this little habit of buying and planting stuff that looks cool, that we know is cool from experience with our grandparents who have all passed away and left us with a rural legacy too vast for our cityboys' lifestyles.
Anyway, the stuff that he installs requires a lot of water. And I am against such a strategy since we are not often there and wee need sturdy, as self-sufficient as possible stuff.
But...
Zucchini, tomatoes, and corn are nice but who's going to provide through their whole lifespans? I am trying now but I might not be able to help them reach their full potential. One week away and it could be over. A pity for all the previously taken efforts and time spent.
This one, though...
A sort of beans that he planted and it grew like a bat out of hell.
A single bean planted produces a large bush with dozens, close to a hundred sometimes, more beans.
Great Return On Investment in terms of nutrition, I would say.
Apart from irrigating stuff and loading more water in various containers. I was able to remove some weed, plant chickpeas for the first time ever, I uncovered more saplings and I marked them in order to protect them from alien mower intervention or some such. Even my own hoe strikes are dangerous.
Also, I started an infrastructural project of sorts. Or is it overstructural/ ultrastructural when it's hanging above your head?
It is the rope web that I did mention to @erikah a couple of days ago.
It may be just a way to practice the new knots that I learned and to give myself and Mr. I-plant-it-you-take-care-of-irrigation some options.
Here's a red beet that we left in the ground last year and now it starts growing for another reason. And it's going towards seeds.
Take a look...
Among the exotic plants that could one day be a naturalized part of our village's flora...
A lavender unit that's still alive. I hope it starts taking over the yard.
I am going to call it a night and leave it at that. Glad that stuff is growing on...
Peace and Good Luck!
Yours,
Manol