I’ve tried to eat healthy for most of my life. I don’t always succeed especially when I’m traveling and I’m forced to eat whatever is available. One of the keys to that is planning my meals carefully as I change location. In the same breath, I need to plan my farming. In my last season, I was only interested in ‘cash-crops’. Things that would produce quickly. Not anymore. For this thing to be successful, I need to have a plan. I’ve looked at my yard and I’ve decided that I want as many fruit trees as is possible. A part of that planning process is in deciding where to plant them. They need to some safe distance from the house so that the roots do not cause problems to the structure of the house in the future. So far, I’ve acquired seedlings for apple, naseberry, cho-cho and avocado pear. Actually, I bought the cho-cho at the market when I saw that it already had started growing.
The permanent trees will of course be supplemented by the short-term produce; we all know the importance of low hanging fruits in any initiative like this. The corn and gungo peas have served to encourage that process. I’ve replanted some of the corn grain from the original corn that the work man planted. Some corns were left on a cob in a plastic bag. When I got back to my farming endeavours, the seeds had already began growing in the bag. It wasn’t hard to transfer them to the soil. I planted them and gave them a good watering that evening. Thankfully we had some rain that same week and I’ve left them to their own demise. Unfortunately, some other workmen went to the patch to mine stones and now I have no idea where the seeds are planted. I’ll just have to wait to see where they pop up.
In the meantime, my hairdresser has provided me with banana and plantain shoots (I really have no idea what they are called; maybe they are called suckers), as well as some passion fruit seedlings. I am looking for sour sop, sweet sop, custard apple, star fruit, jackfruit (my hfh is not too keen on that one), breadfruit and ackee. I’m thinking about a June plum tree but I haven’t figured out where to put it as yet.
In the meantime, I’ve once again planted some cantaloupe and watermelon seeds. Time will tell. Let’s see how this hands-off posh farming turns out.
Posh Farming 