HOME-GARDEN FARMER CLIMBS ROOF TO ASSESS DRUM- GROWING ALMOND TREE

...seeds brought into my garden by flying birds grow faster, vigorously...

This morning while working in the garden I noticed that my almond tree growing in a drum appears set for fruiting. 

I am not so sure but I just hopped onto the store roof to check. The sun was beating hard on my face but I was still able to take selfies while on the rooftop😀 - that's part of the fun-catching I recommend people to have while doing any tasking work  particularly farming.

So will this Almond tree  initially planted in a sack by a bird start fruiting in its third year? It is now  growing in a drum with other plants also growing in the drum yet the almond tree  growth has been so vigorous.

Recently I discovered that birds bring very potent seeds.  If you create a friendly environment  for them to perch in, the birds will likely bring you seeds from plants in the forests that are still very vigorous  because humans have not altered  them. 

If you are fortunate to get such seeds to plant, those plants would survive under almost any condition.  I have cut the leaves of this almond tree so many times to boil as tea, to  use in wrapping food and to manure other plants in the garden yet it continues to grow so vigorously.

 Likewise the fig tree also growing in a sack in the mini-garden - the seed or planting  part was sown by a bird.

 Also the seed of the Neem  (Dongoyaro) tree was also brought by a bird. I have attempted about four times to get rid of that Neem tree because it is planted directly in the ground and pose threat to built structure. 

 But even when cut to the base and engine oil applied to kill it's roots, once  seasonal rains start, the Neem tree would sprout again and start growing vigorously. I am always decapitating it by cutting off it's vital parts aggressively so it wouldn't grow too big but the tree has stubbornly stayed alive and it's vigour undiminished.

For  some plants though, got or bought in human circles, the story is not same. When the seeds are planted, apart from taking so long to germinate, when transplanted it is usually a very big struggle for them to survive naturally. This has happened to the Avocado seedlings, Soursop seedlings and black star apple seedling in my mini-garden. 

Yet recently I  transplanted  a seedling I believe to be cashew.  Most likely the seed was also sown by a bird. 

After a week of transplanting,  it's still doing fine - it has not dried or lost it's vigour like seeds or seedlings  that have passed through humans and most likely tampered with through using inorganic growth boosters to grow the plants they were procured from.

Recently I planted another Avocado seed and tamarind seeds - I bought the fruits. I know Avocado should take longer to germinate(hopefully it would). But in a week I can see a sprout I believe is tamarind seedling - tamarind is not as commercialised - it's demand is not as high as avocados, soursops and apples, so  it's not likely it has been tampered  with by humans.

The less altered or more purely-bred a fruit  or plant is, the more vigorous it's seeds or cultivated parts would be when planted. 

Abeg o, we human beings should try as much as possible to let plants grow naturally - apart from the safety to human health, it also helps the plants to maintain their natural vigour. 

I believe and I will prove through research that humans that mostly eat edible parts of vigorously growing  crops will live longer and not lose their natural vigour if they don't get killed through other unnatural means such as accidents. 

A major reason you need those growth boosters like chemical fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides etc is because most seeds and other planted parts of crops have lost their natural vigour through their plant lineage being subjected to such inorganic treatments.

Can you see how an almond seed sown by a bird in a sack and replanted  in a drum has continued to grow vigorously simply by adding organic matter - kitchen wastes and garden wastes? Third year, it's already set for fruiting. 

So, 

STOP TAMPERING WITH NATURE!

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