279 7.7 Ways Of Cultivating Lands Not Levels (1/2)
I awoke to the chirping birds in the morning just before the break of dawn. ”Good morning birdies, come have some grains here. Thank you for being my alarm clock for 2 days in a row now.” I said as I eyed a few chirping birds on a branch as it too eyed me. I pecked my hands into the rice that I had bought last night and place it under the branch where it was chirping.
I soon left and proceeded to wash up my face when I saw the birds flew down and pecked at the grains that I had left in the ground for them. At least they had their breakfast, I thought as I washed my face and hair. I scooped a mouthful of water and gargled it before sitting it on the ground.
I dusted my blanket off the ground and aired it at the back of the thatched house. I stoked up the fireplace and hang a pot to boil some water. I then went to fetch my basket of rotten fruits and vegetables, the cutting board, the broken hoe and my utility knife and went to the herbs patch. I marked the ground with several vines that I had attached together and placed a stake on both ends to make a straight line.
After I had marked the ground, I picked the hoe and began to loosen the soil deep enough using the vine as a guide. Then I loosened the earth around it and make a straight mound. This process was repeated until I've got 10 straight mounds of earth about 10 meters in length and was separated by at least a few paces in between each mound.
I took several trips to the stream to fetch water and I watered and softened the mounds first. Once I had done so, I took a tomato and sliced it roundly and placed it in the mounds and covered it with some loosed earth. Each tomato was good enough to make about 6 plantations and I decided to cover at least 2 lines for plantations.
Carrots were a bit difficult to cultivate. I had removed the leafy part and then I measured about 2 inches from the top of the carrot and cut it off before I plunged the whole carrot into the ground. The carrots could only make one line of plantations. After the initial harvest, it could be extended into the next line so I decided to keep it bare first.
Next, I worked in was with the potatoes and I had about 5 rotten ones and I halved them with my utility knife before I buried it with the cut part facing downwards and the eyes are being covered with the loose soil. ”Good...we going to have potatoes in due time...” I thought to myself as using organic soil for plantation is the best.
I had a few strawberries with me and I sliced them. Knowing that each slice of strawberry would have their seeds in them, I made 2 lines of plantations for it. ”Great...now for the last part...my humble string beans. I need to make a trellis for this as I walked to the forested area and saw some yellow bamboo and cut a few pieces down. I saw some bamboo shoots and I removed it from the base of the bamboo plantations. ” Another source of free vegetables...”
I dragged the bamboo over to my patch and set it aside and used my utility knife to scrape away at its leaves and twigs. I chopped away at the ring of the bamboo about a length of 1 meter and then make strips out of it. These bamboo strips were then placed into the ground to where I wanted the string bean tendrils to grow and climb.
Since the 2 mounds were selected by a few paces, it enabled the climbing string beans to climb from each side end then form a trellis in the centre. It was alright for me to walk through and soon after making the vertical, horizontal and overhead trellis, I proceeded to peel away at the dried strong beans and discovered that I had a handful of those seeds.
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”Hahaha...this is better than I thought. This is a fast-growing type of string beans and once the flower had turned into a baby pod, it would be able to harvest in 3 to 5 days time. Yes...! We going to have string beans stir fry with the gruel. it would be fantastic...! Gruel... I won't mind eating it every day as long as we have variations of dishes.”