Hello everyone!!! I hope your day is filled with all the things that make you happy and blessed.
In my previous post, I shared our first activity in the garden this year, 2026. We always continued doing it little by little every day. However, we stopped for about three days because it was raining.
We continued doing it last Wednesday, January 7. My family decided to sow the seeds we bought back then from the city. They are lettuce, eggplants, cherry tomato, and okra. I also have some seeds of bell pepper, green chili, and tomatoes left from the ingredients that I used in cooking.
Hopefully, they will all grow healthy.
Unlike the way we sowed the seeds from our previous place in the city, where we sowed them in an improvised water gallon plant pot, here we directly sowed them in the land. But we cultivate it first and make a plot to make it safe from stray dogs and cats, and also when it suddenly rains, and to keep them directly from the heat of the sun.
My husband and my daughter did the heavier things because I am not allowed to do heavy things due to my health condition. So, I am really grateful for their unwavering support for my love of gardening.
Working in the garden together with my family is always enjoyable, especially when my daughter does some silly things...like she is always the joker in the family.
The garden plot looks so nice, and to make it safer, we fenced it with tiny cut bamboo and covered it with plastic. My husband's niece gave us those cut bamboo sticks.
We also cleaned the surroundings, and then my husband trimmed some branches of the Philippine lime (kalamansi), Water Rose Apple (tambis in Cebuano), and the guyabano trees.
This part of the yard looks pretty clean now, no more long, thick grasses, weeds, and other waste material in the surroundings. This is totally ready for planting now.
We also burnt the dry leaves every afternoon and started to make compost soil, too. I'll just update and share it with you here when it's already done.
I'm really excited to see the seeds we sowed start sprouting, and Iām even more excited when it's time to harvest in the future, especially since vegetables and fresh spices nowadays are very expensive here in our place. So, it is best to have our own vegetables and fresh spices in the garden.
We can take care of their health by using organic fertilizers, too. One good thing in this place is that there's a lot of cow manure, and it's one of the best sources of organic fertilizers, so we already have some free sources of organic fertilizers aside from the vegetables and fruit peels and rinds, as well as eggshells and many more.
So, let's all wait and see the progress of our vegetable garden. I'll just end it here for now and see you around. Thank you so much for stopping by and God bless...ššš