The Sunny Days Are Back In My Garden

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. — Hippocrates

Finally, I deployed HiveHealth dApp to the internet, yay!

But when I tried to access it, it immediately killed itself due to low memory. Of course, I'm using the free tier to deploy a Hive dApp which can't even cater to even a single user, lol. Maybe if I could save up, I'd try the $7 tier and see if it can run successfully, hopefully.

The side project for Hive has been contributing to my intermittent sleeping pattern, and partly because of the record rainfall since the beginning of the year.

But th3 sunny days are back and it bringing me the joyful gardening vibes again.

The Sunny Days are Back!

Also, a break from my usual posting activity, I'm moving into HiveGarden as I embrace more light gardening stuff and less about changing the world with my unusual ideas and rants. So, hello!

The sun was out, finally, and I decided to do serious gardening again. I strolled around to see what I could do and found some new banana suckers from the existing banana plants. Banana sort of clones itself, just one banana can grow new clones forever and its clones produce more clones, giving you an endless supply of free bananas. Just make sure you don't bring any diseases into your property and it will be a complicated topic to touch, until you discover the healing power of seawater!

So I planted four Bungoyan and a Costa banana sucker, but I'll add more if I can see more suckers around. I wanted to grow more red bananas, but seems that it isn't proficient as compared to the other hybrids, it's a slow grower too!

I was also able to bring a sack of sand using our trusty cart. When planting gingers, I don't dig and bury. Instead I put it on top of the bare ground and cover it with sand, then repeating it in the next months as soon new rhizomes becomes visible. Following this method, it can grow more rhizomes and bigger sizes as compared to growing directly under the ground. I already have five raised beds with already growing ginger plants and will be adding more next month. With the skyrocketing prices of basic necessities, growing your own spice, or whatever crop, is now lucrative than ever. So, go start a garden and grow what you can grow.

After weeding and other gardening chores, I decided to harvest some coconuts, but not the usual ones. We have this Macapuno hybrid, which can bear fruits without space for water or air if you give it enough time, just like its name "maca-puno" or "will-fill", or something like that.

The ones I am harvesting are not yet full, but have matured already. Unlike normal coconuts that gets hard and crunchy, Macapuno is the crazy one, they get softer and jelly-like. Once I quenched my thirst, I put whole bunch in the bag, luckily I brought a cart because it was so heavy.

I harvested some Kangkong and purple sweet potatoes for our dinner later, since we love a sour vegetable salad as side dish.

At home, I continued by carving out the Macapuno flesh out of the shell and dicing it before boiling it with water. As soon the water was reduced, I added some leftover sugar from my sister's baking stash to make a Macapuno jam.

I made a total of three jars out of the five coconuts, then I gave one to my granny, which she enjoyed with her afternoon snack. Another jar was used by my sister to make Maha Blanca, it's a soft dessert made of cornstarch and other ingredients, which we substituted with the jam instead. It went well and tasted well like Maha too!

This slow life is really a relief to my profession, I do enjoy both without compare, but honestly, doing IT stuff makes me feel that I'm dying young, as compared to full time gardening which holistically feels like I'm adding more years to my lifetime. Maybe it's just balance, but I usually tend to overdo stuff even to the point of exhaustion.

I still consider myself lucky though, because I ever get exhausted, I can just run and escape to the orchard and being there automatically relieve me from any heaviness that I feel inside.

So that's how my usual day go, till next garden update.

See you, keep buzzing!

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@oniemaniego is a software developer, but outside work, he experiments in the kitchen, writes poetry and fiction, paints his heart out, or toils under the hot sun.

	Onie Maniego / Loy Bukid was born in rural Leyte. He often visits his family orchards during the summers and weekends, which greatly influenced his works.

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