TRANSPLANTED MY BITTERLEAF PLANT TO BIGGER SACK

BITTERLEAF is a shrub - a small tree so it sure needs more soil depth to grow than small plants.

Can you see how the sack of soil it was planted in has torn? That is one of the challenges of this garden established mainly  with sacks. 

I have  even put in  a second sack when the first sack started getting torn but it's root  still need more space. 

So with this bigger sack I brought out, I hope it will have yet more opportunity to grow and produce more leaves.

 To transplant, remember that you should not uproot if it's a plant has been growing somewhat deep. Gently scrape the soil around the root - see above

 Snce I wanted the bitterleaf to have much more soil than before, I got another sack of soil already in the garden that's also getting torn. This one has a few basil(effirin plants) I replanted the effirin in another container-- an old jerrycan cut into two- if you have any leaky jerrycan, don't throw away, they can be used as container to plant in the garden.

So I poured the soil in the torn sack in the new sack. Then I poured the soil  had scraped off around the bitterleaf and poured in the new sack. I got kitchen wastes  - plantain peels, soya bean chaff and garden wastes - dried  Neem leaves, dried blood leaves, some potato leaves  and poured in the sack.

 Then I carried the bitterleaf plant which still had some soil sticking to the root and put in the new sack.

Then I filled the sack with more soil from another container in the garden. If working alone, before the sack gets too heavy for you to carry, ensure you put it in the position its to be situated before you fill the sack with more soil and manure. 

Behold the taller sack of  soil with bitterleaf planted in it along with another plant which has a nice lemon-like scent - I  have not identified it yet.

 Since I scraped off soil from it to fill the sack for the bitterleaf, I also planted this lemon-scented plant along with the bitterleaf in same sack.

Even if that plant  is not edible, it would likely be good for cosmetics - it's not itchy - maybe I will incorporate it into my organic soap to give it that lemon-like scent.

 Which reminds me, this weekend, I plucked Aloe Vera in this my mini-garden to compound my bathing soap and also added natural spices - I have used the soap for just very

 few days  and my skn seems to be telling me special  'thank you, thank you' and saying 'if you continue  blessing me this way, me - your skin will serve you well till ripe old age' 😁

 Aaawwwnnn! Isn't that sweet! Even if you think it's my imagination talking,, the fact that my skin is feeling real good isn't imagination. 

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