If you had said last growing season that I would be next year in Mexico, I would have asked How?
But here I am and I'm loving it! Well apart from a lot of stress the last 5 months with the project (another story that I will be documenting as it was and still in totally epic.)
I treated the back yard to 4 tonnes of gravel to tidy it up a bit, rescued an aloevera plant who didn't look too happy where it was, and started off some seeds.
We started of some seeds of various types although for now we are limited to not many plant pots or containers nor soil come to think of it. Down the road I went to a small garden center. Wont be going there again though!
On a first appearance to Mexicans, I look like a Guerro (a whiteish Mexican) and when I arrived at the garden center and asked how much a tree was the guy said 90 pesos. It was a 2 year old avo tree.
After I had conversation with him a bit more, he had realize that I wasn't a guerro at all and then must have decided I was a Gringo. I asked how much a sack of soil was and sadly I needed it to start seeds off, but the cheeky fucker charged me 80 peso for the bag of dirt.
I had heard of the rich red soil of Mexico, and now that I see it in real life, I am quiet skeptical (or just an ignorant European guy) as to whether seeds can start in it as it is very sand like but when wet, it is more like a clay. Obviously it has lots of nutrients in it because of the abundance of foods grown in this country and not everyone can afford fertilizers unless they make them up at home.
Bigger and better holes were needed in the pots, last time I only had a big nail and fire to make them with but this time around there was a drill to use!
Unlike bags of soil from a garden center in europe, its not ready to use. Its literally like a fine dust and needs to be moistened so we gave it a bath from the bottom and poured water from the top to soak it.
I wonder if this will be the best soil ever once it has some compost there and worm poo and something for aeration.
Well first off all, this is just a part of my seed bank in which the rest is still stuck in Norway. And to make it worse, I had used many seeds last year in Norway just before I got a surprise deportation back to sunny UK. I have to grow things that I need more seeds of, but luckily things like pumpkin produce endless seeds.
We have started to germinate various beans, melons, pumpkins, tomatoes, spinach, ganja, zucchini, and some corn to try out.
Pretty sure its cos there is no contract on the internet and its pay as you go!
I will of course keep up with posting again & try very much to dedicate some time for hive again each day as its become once again, a form of income!
Nice to be back again! Dam, also I cant upload to threespeak either, and posts take forever hahaha
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