Greetings Hive Gardeners,
I hope that everybody is healthy and happy today. Thanks to @riverflows for initiating this wonderful challenge and to @afterglow for inviting me. Anyway, it was on my list already to finish this blog just on time for the reason that I've been busy this past few days.
Last December until January was just stressful months for me. As I shared from my past content that we were badly hit by a strong typhoon that destroyed almost every house especially ours and also smashed big tresses and destroys most crops.
Early in December before the typhoon came was just an exciting time for me for I have a lot of plans for my garden like harvesting my first dwarf papaya fruit and sowing my experimental propagation for the string beans that I propagated in eggshells.
This was my string beans propagation
I was able to transplant them but then the night after was when the typhoon came so I lost all of them. While suffering from the aftermath of the typhoon most of my plants were damaged and some had died so I was thinking of a way how to recover most of them. The first thing we made is collect all debris that intercept the surrounding.
The second step is to dismantle our house because it was so broken that it's not safe to live again. Now, we are currently staying by the in-laws temporarily and start saving some money to rebuild a better structure of the house to live in.
And because of that some of my plants were withered because of lack of shade that protects them from too much heat but some also thrive beautifully.
Here are my latest garden updates.
After what happened I realise I should plant more vegetables because by the coming days and months I know that most prices will increase and luckily I still have some of them left and so I nurtured them patiently.
This space was where should be my experimental propagation of string beans but unfortunately, they were all gone and so a few days after the typhoon I sow the left string beans seeds and put some bamboo poles so they could climb to. A also plant more in the different sides of the garden.
excuse the electric wire, electricity is not fixed until now 😩. Anyway, my spring onions are getting healthier and greener each day even sometimes I pick some of its leaves for my dish.
It's just one lemon basil but looks how sturdy its leaves I'm very excited for the flowers to be ready for sowing so I can give some who envy mine 😁.
My tomatoes are flourishing nicely. I can see a flower coming out already. I also have more of them that I planted somewhere else so I can compare which area they grow in the most.
Last month this was just all brown but look at this lemongrass now slowly recovering from being bath in saltwater after the sea level rise after the typhoon. Can't wait to use it again for my soup dishes.
ginger, slowly growing with its new baby sprouts.
Moringa/horseradish, one of my favourite vegetable plants is slowly recovering. I was able to make two dishes already from its very few leaves.
Above is my bell peppers that was replanted the same day with my tomatoes and look at it now it is flowering too. Below is my native chillies almost ready to bear their first fruit.
sweet potato leaves, water spinach and my spinach carrying its seeds just waiting for me to pick them up.
okra If you remember my past garden updates the other months that I have a lot of okras. Only a few were left standing after the storm and so this one I'll save its seeds so I can plant more of them again.
My survivor eggplants, still fighting!
(if you know what happened about them) and of course, I just had my 4th harvest and here's for my selfie entry.😉
Note that every vegetable photos I shared were all mine and I have them all today but all planted at a different side of the garden.
So that was my latest garden update as of today. I'm very happy that my passion for planting gives me a remedy to move on and get up for what had happened to us and also it helps us provide fresh and healthy food on the table. I'll do my best to nurture them and I just hope that even the weather is not very nice they all thrive
Now I'm inviting @dizzyapple and @chuch maybe you like to participate in this garden challenge.
Thank you for taking the time to read. Maybe you can leave some nice comments, reblogged and maybe for some upvotes 🙂.
God bless and stay safe.