My Garden In Pictures

My Garden In Pictures

My plot of land in the city of Lagos, Nigeria where I leave is 60m by 120m and half of that space is taken up by two buildings, and old building we initially built when we moved to the area part of which I have converted to a rabbit farm and then the new building which is where I reside now. I had the option of covering the remaining space with interlocking bricks so that we wouldn’t have issues of grasses or dirt inside the compound and the water will be channeled to the road which is what people usually do, but I chose the option of having a garden in the compound so that we grow most of what we eat.

I wrote about my rabbit farm last month you can click the link to read about it My Rabbit Farm and today I am going to write about my garden because of @simplymike’s challenge which you can find in the link: https://steemit.com/homesteading/@simplymike/steemit-community-garden-journal-challenge-may-2019-with-steem-bounty. And also because of my dear friend @mariannewest who manages @sustainablelivin, this is also for her garden corner which you can check out in the link: https://steemit.com/gardencorner/@sustainablelivin/sustainablelivin-1558724175935-garden-corner-8.

First view of the garden

Once you come into my compound the building is by the right while the garden starts from the left, the middle portion is where cars park. The garden starts with a Pawpaw tree, in the space below I planted Turmeric at the end of January this year and they are doing great, after them we have 2 Sour sop trees, an African Apple tree another Sour sop tree, two Coconut trees, a Pawpaw tree, an Avocado pea tree, a dwarf Pawpaw tree, a normal Pawpaw tree and another dwarf tree and a Plantain tree. You can see some of the mentioned trees in the picture above but as I show closer pictures we will see other plants in the garden.

Turmeric plant

The Turmeric you see in the picture above were planted at the last week of January, we had planted Ginger the previous year and they did very well so we figured since they are both of the same plant family and have similar feature, why not try it and boom! They turned out ok.

New Ginger plants

At the time we planted the Turmeric plants we also planted more Ginger plants, they are doing fine now, they were attacked by a plant that looks like long pepper, it took me some time to discover that they were not pepper but cover plants that can kill other plants you planted. I made a post about is and you can read that up in the link: https://steemit.com/life/@ketcom/plants-mimicking-another-for-survival. In the picture you’ll also see older Ginger plants we planted last year with an arrow pointing it out.

Old Ginger plants

These are the Ginger plants we currently harvest from for cooking and preparing ginger tea.

Some Scent leaf plant

Among the Ginger leaves you’ll see a Scent leaf, it is used for preparing different types of pepper soup and it is also a medicinal plant.

Other trees – better view

Here you can clearly see the 2 Coconut trees, a normal Pawpaw tree and an Avocado tree. We had a very strong windy rainfall the other day and it fell the Avocado tree and almost uprooted it. I was able to rescue it by throwing more soil on the base and the tying it to the pawpaw tree, you can read the post about that in this link: https://steemit.com/life/@ketcom/the-wind-almost-uprooted-my-avocado-tree.

Dwarf Pawpaw tree close up view

You can see all the Pawpaw fruits on this small or should I say Dwarf pawpaw tree. You need to bend down to pluck them while you climb a ladder or use a hock pole to push down the normal ones.

Bitter leaf plant

Behind the Avocado tree is the Bitter leaf plant used to cook bitter leaf soup, please don’t let the name deceive you, the soup is actually very delicious and medicinal, it is one of our native soup.

More trees at the back

At the back of the compound just before the generator house we have two Pawpaw tree, one is a Dwarf as you can see and then we also have some Cocoyam plant. The reason why I took to planting Dwarf Pawpaw trees is because the normal one while searching for natural light from the sun tended to be growing too tall, this is due to the fact that my neighbor’s building blocks the sun from the plants at some certain hours of the day.

Scent leaf and Water leaf plants

At the right side of the compound is where the borehole was built, it supplies water to the property and this makes the land around that area wet more than other areas of the compound. We have a lot of Scent leaf and Water leaf scattered around that area. Water leaf is used to cook in combination of pumpkin leaf to cook vegetable soup. It has other leaf it also combines or alone for different types of soup.

Pumpkin leaf and Water leaf

On the picture above is Pumpkin leaf and Water leaf with them dam grasses. Lol. We call Pumpkin leaf Ugu in our native Igbo language. It is a natural blood builder, it is used to prepare soup on its own and can combine with a lot of different leaves to make different types of soup.

Aloevera plant

Yuck, I’ve never tasted anything as bitter as Aloevera leaf. It is very succulent and yucky, please try it and tell me about it. Lol. It is a very medicinal plant and also used for making different types of cosmetic products.

Banana Tree

I planted the banana tree around September last year and it has started fruiting, I reckon that by next month ending it should be ready for harvesting.

I hope I have mentioned all the plants and trees in the compound, if I have left out any let it please forgive me. Lol.

Finally,

Mercy has new Kits and today is day 3

Oh yeah, I also run a rabbit farm from the old house at the back. But this post is for greens so that will be a post for another day. Mercy gave birth 3 days ago and these are 6 of kits.

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