Tropical Heritage Garden Diary:
April 2016:
April
01
Jack Fruits growing
Pineapple too
April
02:
Hen with newly hatched chicks being moved
to a safer place
Soup with Sausage and Pork Loin for
lunch
A few more raindrops, washing brought in -but little
effect on the garden
Another hen brings her chicks to the creche
The last of the soup -with Tocino for evening
meal
April
03:
Missing!
Leaving seven eggs behind
Homemade Bacon with Eggplant Salad
Last hope for saving garden from
Drought
Boiled Hock with Samosa and Papaya
April
04:
Damp earth and leaks in roof after a little
rain
...but then the sun
Humba with fried cabbage and Chinese celery for
evening meal
April
05:
A bit more rain today -but not much
Homemade Sausage with pasta for evening meal
April
06:
Goats relaxing after breakfast
Hungarian Beans planted in cool patch
behind the Goat Pen
Bacon, Humba and Fish for Lunch
Cinnamon Bacon Balls in Tomato Sauce for evening meal
April
07:
Lemon Seeds planted in a pot
Hen sitting on pile of sacks
Another area behind Goat Pen renovated
and planted with various house and imported Beans
April
08:
One Cactus pot unveiled and a New
one seeded
Young Ducklings released from Fattening Pen
April
09:
New Ducks arrive -bringing more Genetic
Variety
Recently released Ducks enjoy Breakfast
.....and then check out the New Arrivals
Garden patches planted with Hungarian Paprika,
Tomato and Parsley seeds
Large Water Snail in Fish Pond
Egg Foam near Water Reservoir
April
10:
Cacao pods Harvested and Opened to
allow Fermentation
April
11:
Material arriving for Renovation of Pig
pen
Lemon seeds starting to sprout?
(planted April 07)
Coriander roots planted in Pot with Ashitaba
(next to pot with Parsley)
The Neighbours decide to burn some dry leaves
April
12:
Butlig gets a wooden feeding trough
The Two Girls get one too!
No. Three has a Genital Problem
(Possibly caused by rubbing on Concrete are in Pig Pen)
Concrete Removed from Pen and put in Water
Feature
Terri levels Butlig's pen with sand
Preparing to replace the Pig Pen tarpaulin
Mahogany Husks drying out in the
sun before being used for Cooking Fire
Mother Hen teaching her chicks how to destroy the garden
in search of termites and other insects
April
13:
The Tarpaulin roof is replaced by Nipa
No. Three gets a painting with antibiotic
Area around Northern pig pen cleared up
...with discarded wood used in the garden to line paths -or as
support for climbing plants
Strange Amber globules on Citrus tree
No. Three sleeping in feeding trough while waiting for Nipple
Drinker to be installed
...with patience rewarded at last
Ducks start laying eggs again -the first time this year
...and a few Papaya Caught
...but is No. Three getting better -or worse?
April
14:
Area behind the Goat Pen being cleaned
up
April
15:
Caimito, Lemon and a Tambis seed planted
in pots
Not Lemon -but perhaps Chilli
Our Native Rooster meets the Neighbour's Kabir Hen
...but our Goats seem happy enough in their pens
...with reserves hopefully growing soon in a surrounding
hedge
Hungarian Peas planted in various garden plots
A few raindrops -but enough to refresh the plants
and keep the pineapple growing
April
17:
New Trough working well -but Nipple
Drinker demolished by pigs
No. Three improving
(antibiotic is working)
Hungarian Peas and Beans planted in wild Patch near Goat
Pen
April
20:
Sky Overcast -followed by Rain
Cactus Seedlings unveiled
Youngest are biggest!
Other cacti surviving reasonably well on balcony
April Showers bring April Flowers
...and more Hungarian Beans
Plus new chicks for Hen sitting on sacks
of sawdust
April
22:
Area behind the Goat Pen finally cleared
of junk
gaps in Goat Pen Fence closed to stop goats
eating young plants outside
Various garden patches planted with Hungarian Beans and
other Vines
Two House Beans now
April
23:
Hedge planted outside Goat Pen
fence
Gas Cylinder changed
April
24:
Prolific Cobra Vine -with flowers
and seed pods
Northern patches covered with rice hull and sawdust
One Coconut patch with Rice Hulls and the other with
Nothing
Boiling Water and Cooking with charcoal
stove
April
26:
Another (last) pot sown
with Cactus seeds
Cacti on balcony Reorganized
New ducks started laying (yesterday)
Fattening Pen made ready for new Inmates
Tomato plants in Lemon pot transplanted to patches near
Pig Pen
House getting tidied up for visitors in May
Underneath the House too -as protection against termites
April
28:
The arrival of the beds locally made for
our May guests
April
29:
Local Family bring goat for
Insemination
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Trevor Batten
<trevor at
tebatt dot net>
Baclayon 2015
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