Finding Alternative Spaces For Planting My Crops

Hello community people, hope your gardening activities are going well. As we are having more rains here the crops are doing just great. Some farmers who planted early are already harvesting their crops especially corn, okra and pumpkin leaves, yes fresh corns are in the market now.

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These vegetables are from my sister in-law's garden. She's so excited that she can now get fresh vegetables from her garden, no more buying them from the market.

The corn has flowered and will start producing fruits soon. You see, that's one of the benefits of owning a garden.

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Remember in my previous gardening post, I talked about having a small portion in my compound where I usually cultivate. So it happened that early this year, the landlord came and built a three self-contain rooms there and that left me with no place to cultivate. I was so unhappy and wished that he didn't develop the place because I had lots of crops that I had wanted to try out this time around, but you know it's his own to do as he wishes.

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I tried getting another place around my neighborhood for lease but there was none. Seems like everyone was farming this year, lol. It's really a good thing that more people are going into farming, if not for anything for their own consumption.

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Since leaving the crops will amount to waste, I decided to make use of the little space where the septic tank was built and planted pumpkin, and corn there.

You can see that some have germinated. Soon they will be needing some manure and ash.

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The little space left after planting the vegetables, I used it plant cassava stems, and one yam head, hoping that they will grow.

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I still had some crops left to plant but the space was filled so I switched to Plan B, which is using bags. I had already gotten some cement bags washed and kept handy.

So I went to a nearby farmland that had good soil and filled the bags, five in number.

Filling the bags with soil

I missed the soil with some compost I've been preparing from waste materials since. You know the crops need manure for healthy growth.

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Carrying those bags of soil wasn't an easy task but I had to because I needed them to plant my crops, lol.

I laid them beside the wall at my backyard where they can have access to sunlight and rain. These are very important elements that crops need to grow well.

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After that I proceeded to plant the remaining pumpkin seeds (ugu vegetable), including fluted pumpkin seeds (ugboru vegetable).

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Here's curry leaf that I bought, after removing the leaves, I planted the stems too. This is another way to plant curry aside from the seeds, and it usually survives. I hope this one will.

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Another thing I'll plant is spinach. The one that grew at the garden were destroyed due to the ongoing house construction. Luckily I saved the seeds from the previous season so I'll need to get more bags of soil for planting them.
Till then let me watch these ones already planted hoping they will germinate.

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You can see how I've been able to maximize the alternative spaces available to plant my crops. I had to do it to ensure that there's availability of vegetables and other food crops at my disposal. Again with this I know that I'll be eating fresh food crops from a safe source, That's being Intentional with what I eat and I hope you will too.
I guess this is me, putting my minimalistic tendencies into practice and I'm so loving it.

Thank you for reading and please me goodluck with my plants 😂

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This is my submission for #mayinleo day 2

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