Well I did it, I planted my garden. In the end the hardest part was getting a fence. I have an area about 10x22 feet next to my house that is fenced on 2 sides, the third side is my house and the fourth, a 10 foot entrance for the pigs leading to my garden. There are about 5 stands of banana trees offering the shade I need for growing veggies. Funny that here you look for a partially shaded area and back home you seek out the sunny areas. I asked for the fence and was told yes I will do it tomorrow and it only took two weeks from then to get the fence! Once that was in I went to work breaking up the rock solid ground. We get a lot of rain and that has compacted the soil big time. Honestly I only dug down 5 inches or so and tried to mound the loose soil to give some more depth. I wasn’t sure if anything would even grow.

Well I am always delayed on the writing aspect of my adventures, but this time it has come in handy. I can report that EVERYTHING has sprouted! Now that is not saying everything will make it to harvest, but hey this is a start. I planted morning glories and moonflowers just for fun, lettuce, green and red sweet peppers, basil, cayenne peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, passion fruit and caleloo. I went with the theory that not every seed would sprout so I planted way to much. I remember specifically the watermelon I put 5 seeds in the mound hoping 2 or 3 would sprout. Well there are 6 plants coming up, I guess an extra seed slipped in! So I am exited to see if my first solo gardening adventure bears fruit, literally.