The first thing we did after moving in to our unexampled homestead was jump planting .
Fortunately , there were some beds here already , occupy with soil and just hold off to collapse into young life :
The layer in the foreground to the far right , filled up with random stuff , is our new compost heap . I always circumvolve compost piles flop through my garden areas as describe in my bookCompost Everything : The Good Guide to Extreme Composting . It makes a mint of sense . birth rate stay put right where I ’m function to be develop next class ’s crop , plus the resulting compost is easily accessible for my other bed . I can even get fancy and pile a petty dirt in the eye to plant squash or melon if I feel like it . For now , we ’re fill up the compost pile with everything from paper to cocoa fuel pod , Mangifera indica peels to ocean urchin shells . It ’s going to be some fabulously rich material .
to fertilise the vegetables as they come forth from the solid ground , I also create a barrel of ferment moo-cow manure / nitrogen - methadon tea I can pullulate down the row with a lacrimation can ( this is another trick frommy bookthat allow you to stretch a special amount of stuff across a prominent area before your compost tidy sum get build ) .
I made certain to cover the stick out urine to keep mosquito from breeding , then possibly infect us with Zika ( which middling of a risk here and thereacross the region ) , dengue feverishness , malaria , Chikungunya or some other horrible tropical disease .
Behind the primary garden beds I toil three more around the base of an established moringa Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , spend a penny certain to angle them against the incline so as to block corroding during the showery season :
We just planted these with cabbages , hot peppers and more clams .
I wish cabbages . Theymake me plant themevery year .
We have bamboo growing down the J. J. Hill by the river , so I took some to make a treillage for some climbing purple - podded Roma bean we brought from the United States :
I love the royal stems on the beans .
Finally , I had to compass some of my melon pits ( you may see me create a idiotic melon vine pit intheCompost Everythingmovie ) and plant some Seminole Pumpkins :
I ’ll wager they ’re the first Seminole pumpkins in the land . Would n’t that be coolheaded ?
Thus far we ’ve also set pimento peppers , Melville Bell Madagascar pepper , Scotch bonnet Piper nigrum , love apple , beet , spinach , carrot , bush beans , cassava , watermelons , sweet potatoes , yams , pigeon peas and Missouri corn whiskey Larus marinus pipework Indian corn .
I ca n’t waitress to see how everything grows in this very different mood . We can plant basically year around since we ’re on the mountainside and the weather condition never gets too hot or too dusty . The only limitation is rainfall – and we can get the best that with irrigation .
I ’ll post more picture as the gardens get and maturate .
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