My round tomatoes are fruiting! When I saw these on Saturday I twirled round dancing. Why? It's sort of been difficult growing round tomatoes in past seasons since I started gardening - they don't just fruit unlike the snake tomatoes (tomato pastes).
This time around I've been very intentional with manuring after tilling the two bags of soil I planted them in.
I made a post last week making enquiries about a certain plant sprouting in my garden. Check 2nd photo
Finally I have been able to identify partly with plant identifier app and also careful observations and reading.
The unknown plant (now known) is Cocona (Solanum sessiliflorum), often called Cameroon pepper in our clime! I was wondering how the seed got there - I even initially thought it may have been a bird that brought the seed.
It was after all the hassles of identifying I later remembered - I think it was around November last year - I was shopping for soup ingredients and I got these two orange coloured fruits for N100 to use as spice. I've heard about the pepper but never really used it in my own cooking.
I didn't get around to using them and in the usual nothing wastes concept, when they appeared to be getting spoilt, I packed them with other kitchen wastes and went to deposit them in the soil in some sacks as irganic manure.
I forgot completely about them until after identifying the plant. So looking forward also to Cameroon pepper harvest as I tend the plant. Hopefully more will germinate.
Between last Monday and today I have been able to re-bag/re-mix soil in five sacks, two buckets and two basins.
Call it tillage or re-bagging of soil, that's what I've been busy doing in the garden in addition to the regular watering, weeding etc.
Apart from the wear and tear of the old sacks, the soils in them need rejuvenation by re-mixing with manure.
Packing out soil from torn sacks and gradually putting in new sacks with addition of manure at different layers is certainly a whole lot of work. I had to use the dreaded shovel because it's faster. Seems the shovel is no longer as heavy as it used to feel 😀.
I will massage my body with the Organic Body Lotion I made from agricultural materials for soothing relief.
Thankfully, I wouldn't need to till the soil in the new sacks, buckets or basins until at least one year - I plan to finish all the tilling, remixing with manure of soils in old sacks into new sacks before the onset of rains.
Why do these things excite me? - quite a number of reasons e.g. it's indication of my good health, I am doing some findings correlating pure agriculture to good health which I believe would prevent any form of ill-health in humans - this Mini-Garden researcher is thinking deep!
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