The Joy in Seeing Them Grow | 5% for SL Charity

Today morning I had a visit to our little tea cultivation with my father. It's not too far from our home and just few kilometers away. One year ago, it was just a land with few trees and bushes. But we planted some tea plants there as a little cultivation. Now they have grown little by little. I went there after a long time. But my father goes there very often to see them.

Even we have grown tea plants as the main crop, there are also a few coconut trees and king coconut trees among them. There were also some cinnamon trees have grown scattered among the tea plants. We wanted to remove them because those trees are stunting the growth of tea plants. So today my father sold those cinnamon trees to someone who bought cinnamon trees for money.

He came there and looked around our cinnamon trees. He just peeled off little bit from one tree and said that they are not quality cinnamon trees. They called as wali kurundu gas. He gave a little piece of peel to our father to taste because it's feel something like sand when biting the peel. But as he promised to my father he agreed to buy them for a reasonable price.

He cut the cinnamon trees and ready them to take. According to him those wali kurundu gas are growing very fast and they don't need any special conditions or fertilizer. I looked at how he removed the cinnamon leaves and cut the branches to take out. He asked father to remove the cinnamon leaves which fallen among the tea plants as they can toxic to the tea plants. I helped father to picked up them and thrown away from the tea plants.

After that I had a walk through the little tea plants. They are near to harvest. But there can be a little delay due to fertilizer problem these days in our country. However my father added organic fertilizer for them. There are also some pineapple plants ready to harvest. They are very fresh without any toxins or chemicals.

Along with them there are also some fruits trees like rambuttan. Those are not ripe yet. But I have seen many birds and squirrels are freely enjoying rambuttan fruits there due to absence of human beings. It is a great happiness to see our little tea cultivation and other crops are growing. Even it is a little land it has many plants and trees which give many benefits for us and birds also. I have spent lovely morning time there with green trees.

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