This is the backyard of my house, in Central Java Indonesia. Where I live it rarely rains, what we have is long dry season until the soil cracks, the sun is always hot and makes the ground dry.
When morning comes, the sunlight comes through the banana leaves. At first I just left it alone, but after a while I felt bad if the land was left empty, so I decided to try gardening vegetables and fruits. Just for fun, who knows maybe I can harvest vegetables and fruits from my own garden.
This is a red brick wall, it's already cracked and mossy, because it hasn't been plastered with cement yet. But I like the pattern,
my plan is, later when my plants are big, I want to make a trellis here, made of bamboo for the poles and roof part, and ropes will be hung down.
These are rock melon seeds and other types of melon, my wife's favorite. I planted the rock melon seeds in a basin, from planting until sprouting it takes about 1-2 weeks. I thought I don't need to buy expensive pots, so I use whatever I have from used stuff, the soil is also from behind the house, mixed with vegetable waste and fruit peels. Just pure guts.
Look, the leaves are already getting a lot and green, every morning before I do activities I always stop by first to water them. Sometimes I talk to them too "Grow fast okay". It sounds crazy, but it really makes me excited. Seeing the rock melon seeds that I've been waiting for finally sprout, and the leaves look lush.
And this is the part that I wait for the most, because it makes me happy. One of the trees has started flowering! The flowers are small and yellow, they say if it's already flowering it means soon it will become fruit. I don't know if it can really become fruit?
Or the flowers will fall and become dry flowers because of the heat, I try to touch the tree gently, and see how many flowers there are, because the stem is still fragile and very small, I don't dare to touch it too rough.
Gardening teaches me about patience,
it can't become instantly,
it has to be watered every day,
it has to be fertilized,
it has to wait.
Just like life right.
Maybe the result of the fruit later won't be that much.
But the feeling of pride when seeing the results by yourself is different.
There is a feeling of happiness.
Do any of you also like planting in the home yard?
Share in the comments, so we can exchange tips.
All photos are mine.
Written in Indonesian by 
and translated to English by me, using Meta AI
