Sunday, 29 September 2013

 
We have an open garden of about 30m by 30m at DiHoko which is close to the water tank, next to the first veggie tunnel. I started to plant cabbage and tomatoes on 21 July 2013. Before I planted, I made a good compost first. I dug a hole where I prepared the compost. The hole is 1m deep and 2m wide. We filled the hole with layers of leaves and ash and manure and left it for three months to be ready to use it for the open garden. The hole with compost I have to water it every 4 days and after two week I have to turn it over and mix it. After three months the compost was ready to be used.

When I started with the planting, I dug 100 holes which were 20cm deep and 75 cm wide. Each hole need to be filled with 1kg of the compost and on top of it I covered it with 750g of sand. I then watered the whole without planting anything and left it for 4 days before actual planting. After 4 days I planted the hole with cabbage and tomato seeds. Every day it needed to water early morning from 6 o’clock until 8 o’clock and also from 2 o’clock until 4 o’clock in the afternoon.

I discovered that this is a good method for using on an open garden compared to other gardens around us which look very different. The cabbage in our open garden is very healthy compare to others, they look fresh and some of the cabbage weight 6-7 kg, where in other gardens around us the cabbage weight 3-4kg. The tomato plants give more tomatoes compared with those around us. The open garden looks green and people around us who have gardens are coming to us to find out why ours is so much different from theirs.  One of the gardeners around us have joined us two weeks ago, to learn more from us.

We pray that God may open the door for us to break the chain of Satan who kept us in jail for many years, where we have land but we cannot use it to plant and harvest and remain poor. We also pray for Albie for his good hart who helps with finances and encourages us when we are weak and that God may give him strength and love to continue to help lift up our communities.
 
 
 
 



 
 

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