Tropical Heritage Garden Diary:

June 2020:

June  01:

One Week Old Piglets Discover The Garden



Fallen Banana Tree Trimmed and Fed to Pigs



Hen Nesting Under Trimmed Banana



Garden Responding to Recent Rain

June  02:

June  03:

-Fatima Goes Shopping Again
-Penny and Terri Butcher Two Ducks
-I Rest All Day

June  04:

-Mini-Protective Patches Created in Southern Garden
-Mini-Patches Broadcast With Assorted Seeds

June  05:

While I'm Computing

 A Hazardous Tree is Removed From Near the piglet Pen

Which The Piglets Pretend to Ignore

June  06:

Extra Light, Fodder for The Animals and Plenty of Logs for the Garden

-Various Pepper Seeds Potted

June  07:

Piglets Two Weeks Old Tonight

June  08:

-Two Avocado Seeds Potted
-Cleaning Up in Various Areas
-More Work on the Mini-Fences
-Rain
-New Mini-Patches Sown with Assorted Seeds

June  09:

-Cassava Trimmed and Transplanted
-Sorghum Trimmed and Transplanted

Sprouting Mini-Patches



 ...and I Start to Process the Recently Felled Logs

June  10:

-A Rainy and Overcast Day
-Some More Work on the Logs

June  11:

-Rain in the Night
-Assortment of Vine Seeds Planted in Various Locations
-Sorghum Removed and Replanted from Southern Garden Protected Patch
-Assorted Seeds Planted After Sorghum Removed

June  12:

-Sorghum, Lemon Grass and Cassava Thinned and Transplanted

June  13:

-Tap Water Returns (For a While) After Three Days Absence
-More Work on the Logs

June  14:

Rain

Piglets Three Weeks Old Tonight

June  15:

-The Tap Water Returns (For a While) Again

We Are Given Some Napier Grass to Plant

The Log Borders Are Finished

-Heavy Rain

June  16:

Various Vine Seeds Planted

June  17:

-Fatima Goes Shopping
-More Trimming and Transplanting
-A Whole Packet of (Expired) Bush Beans Planted
-The Last of the Moringa Cuttings are Transplanted
-Rain

June  18:

-New Seeds (Okra) Pl;anted
-Avocado Seed Planted
-More Work on Mini-Patches

New Seeds (Mustard, Pechay. KangKong) Sown in Mini-Patches

-Rain

June  19:

-Heavy Rain in the Night
-Pepper Seedlings Moved Under Cover
-Three Avocado Seeds Planted
-Area of path Cleared of Leaves and Composted on Garden Patch

June  21:

-Tap Water Appears (and Disapears) Again

Some Recently Planted Vines Sprouting -Others Not

-Overcast Weather

June  22:

-More Vine Seeds Planted in Western Garden
-More Work of Eastern Garden Patch

June  23:

Finished Reshaping and Cleaning Garden Patch

June  24:

-Tap Water Comes and Goes Again
-Heavy Rain
-Assorted Seeds Broadcast in Northern Garden Patch
-Sanpagita (Jasmine?) Trimmed and Transplanted

June  25:

-More Trimming and Transplanting
-More Heavy Rain

June  26:

-Pottering Around
-Small Fence Protecting young Banana Tree From Ducks
-Worked on Mini-Patches

June  27:

An Attempt To Markot an Avocado Tree

Mini-Patches Now Finished and Fully Seeded

Eastern Garden Area Tidied Up

June  28:

-Garden Patch Borders Improved

June  29:

June  30:

-Rain in the Night
-Tap Water Returns (for a few hours) Again

Patch Borders and Drainage Improved



More Trimming and Transplanting

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