Small Gardens

My other garden-related project has to do with the small yard inside our tin fence, directly surrounding our house. When we moved here it was a patch of sandy dust, with hardly a green thing in sight. I have made it my goal to turn the whole place green, and create a papaya and flower garden. I started the papaya trees from seeds, and thankfully they grow fast. If they can survive the little boys I think I will have the garden I’ve been hoping for. 

I have also planted lots of purple “sand flowers” and green beans. The green beans had a promising start but recently have been attacked by bugs. We only got a handful of beans before that happened, but they are extra long! See photo.

The flowers are still thriving, and so far only two papaya trees have been hacked up by the boys. One of them has recovered quite nicely. 

Orcxance has gone to work with a will to grow a special kind of yellow flower that eventually becomes a bright and beautiful bush. Despite multiple destruction attempts by the little boys, he does not give up. He has also added some other edible plants to our garden: ngayingayi and pondu, two local leafy green plants.

Recently I took the risk of transplanting some papaya sprouts to our garden patch outside our yard, and we’ll see if they survive. I also planted half the plot with peanuts again.