This Morning In the Garden...
This plant (the 1st & 2nd photo) has been growing in the same sack I planted Ewedu.
The plant identifier apps are great but sometines they don't actually identify some plants.
The apps come up with something similar based on what is seen in the photo. So it is good if one already has a very good idea what the plant is from experience or experienced people. Would be really glad if you can help identify
OTHER GISTS
As the Harmattan haze gradually bids goodbye, it's time to start planning earnestly if you want to grow garden plants.
If you use containers like sacks, you may think you have escaped the task of land clearing or preparation.
Well, not actually o - the sacks do get worn out and tear due to weather elements after some months - I am still hoping to get sacks that can last up to five years before tearing🤔
Meanwhile when a sack gets torn to the point it needs replacement, don't wait till the rains start before replacing. This Dry season is the best time.
So I have to pack the soil in the torn sacks into other sacks - newer ones, hopefully these ones are more durable.
I started this morning - I used the dreaded shovel again😀. I was able to do just one sack soil transfer since I also seized the opportunity to enrich the soil in the new sack very well from the base.
At different levels, I added wastes - plantain peels, dry leaves, the remains of maize plants in the garden.
I will also be adding nitrogen source like soya bean chaff. I would be adding the peels of beans as well when I remove peels to make moin-moin or beans cake -akara.
I have read recently that apart from soya chaff, any legume or pulse plants are superb for enriching soil. I was not interested in growing beans in my mini garden because I felt the harvest would be too small to be of any consideration due to space constraint. But having read that beans are about the best enrichment for the soil because of nitrogen content, I will plant beans soon.
If I don't get considerable harvest, I will at least enrich my garden soil - aaawwwwn!
Already when I want the ewedu I planted to become greenish when the leaves are turning yellow I add soya bean chaff.
Ewedu is now very expensive o. But thankfully I have been able to pluck twice and cook.
My first harvest was on 24th December - about one month after planting.
See that picture with Pounded yam and Ewedu soup with with stew and turkey and beef seasoned with garden secrets? That was Christmas Eve supper! - only the ewedu was from the garden. Wish I could start rearing turkeys and chickens soon - it would have to be on smallest scale possible and they will have to be caged.
What I prefer though is free range - let them waka about on vegetation. Sighs - space constraint ! But no problem- in life, we just have to make the best we can out of what we have before we get what would be more ideal - at the very least we are learning even on a small scale so we can handle well the bigger when it comes. Meanwhile there are other benefits as well from the very small scale!
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