The barganews vegetable garden after a late start to the season, due to all the rain earlier on last month, is now starting to catch up and things are flourishing. There are now 100 tomato plants neatly set out in two rows running down the full length of the top field. Bamboo trestles for support were next on the list of things to do, along with banking up the earth around the steadily growing plants.
Behind them the saraceno seeds have taking root and growing quite happily, if a little patchy … for some reason the soil seems to not be to its liking in certain places.
A couple of beds laid out for lettuce, some basilico, some red pepper plants and a couple of lines of onions completes the roster for the top field.
Down in the bottom field, the potatoes have been seeded. Next the them, the maize, then 4 different types of beans … all of which seem to have taken root and sprouting healthy green shoots – apart from the potatoes which appear to be dormant below the soil- slightly worrying as each day passes and still no sign of life.
Maybe, ironically they now need more rain to start the process ?
Watch this space
… same old story the world over … exploited women and children toiling away in the fields whilst absentee landlord reaps the benefits and spends his time pursuing his hobbies (photography, evidently)!
… wake-up underclass! REBEL!!
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” – The Communist Manifesto, Chapter 1
One would have thought that someone claiming Irish heritage would know how to plant spuds!
Is this actually Barga soil or footage from the Lunar Rover?
… may we rest assured that if indeed more rain was needed to start the process, then the process has now started?