November 30, 2022
Find time to plant, wait for the right time and harvest when it's time.
We are paying for a home lot for about two years now. We are paying it monthly and it is payable for five years.
My husband decided that we will plant some fruit trees, root crops and other plants in the vacant lot while paying for it monthly.
It is located in some distance where we are living right now so we can visit there so seldom.
We visited there in the afternoon of September 27, 2022. Our plan is to plant some cassava and moringa and my husband will put up a fence.
I cleaned some area so I could plant some cassava. I started to make some holes for it but I am not yet finish with it when my husband called my attention and told me to plant the moringa trees first along the side of the lot.
I planted it in the side so when it grows it will become a post of the fence and at the same time it will stand as a lot boundary.
The sun is about to set that time and I was tempted to stop planting and take time to capture the beauty of sunset. After a few shots I then go back to work and tried to finish planting the moringa trees even it almost dark.
My husband was done with the fence and he helped me to finish planting moringa trees. The sun already set and the sorrounding was dark. We decided to go home and leave those cassava sticks for planting.
The time passed and we were so busy for everyday life that we were not able to visit there again until our neighbor chatted me: Jen, get your banana here, its almost ripe. The bat is already eating some of it. I was happy reading that message because even we were not there, someone gave us an update about our plants there. So, I told my husband about it and we find time to visit there again.
At last, we were able to visit there again last November 23, 2022. That banana welcome us. The banana heart or banana blossom already so long. No one cut if for us and this remind us that we weren't visited there for almost two months. I felt sad because the banana fruit didn't grew well because of it. It should be cut off. I also let my husband get it because it is already mature and already good for harvest.
This banana have some ripe because bats ate them. This one is what our neighbor mean. So, my husband get its fruits directly.
We also found another kind of banana and it is already matured. So, that is another harvest. We felt satisfied having them because as time passed by, you can harvest something from what you have planted previously.
I checked those moringa trees I planted last time and I felt sad when I saw that most of them died. But some or at least two were alive.
I also cleaned banana trees so they can produce good fruits someday.
My husband clean some cassava we planted in some of our previous visit. He freed them from weeds that almost taller than them.
After cleaning, they looks happy and free.
He also unweed our jackfruit tree. Hopefully it will continue to grow and years from now it will bears fruit.
We're also happy seeing our soursop tree growing well.
Our son asked an otot-otot (that's how we call it. I don't know what is its name in other dialect or language. I find some in the lot and this is also came from the seed he had eaten before. I found some ripe and others are still unripe. He is happy and enjoys eating it.
We checked those cassava sticks for planting last time but sadly all of them got dried and died. They cannot be planted anymore.
The sun is about to set and we prepare to go home. We were happy to have harvested three bananas.
All photos are mine.