This
past weekend, I made about half of my pacman garden. What is a pacman (keyhole)
garden, you ask? Well, scroll through my past posts somewhere and you can get
yourself an education about that. Anyway, it started with me wheelbarrowing
rocks by myself, then pretty soon my ausis, ‘me, and neighbor were all helping.
We made the pacman outline, filled that with aloe leaves that we cut from a
nearby aloe plant, and then dumped in several bags of cans that I had collected
from the primary school (they eat canned fish for lunch some days, so they have
lots of cans lying around). We put one of the empty flour sacs in the middle as
sort of a compost bag. We covered the aloe and cans with some dry grass that we
got from a neighbor, then got some manurey dirt from another neighbor’s cow
corrall and shoveled that on top. Yesterday, some neighbor boys, my ‘me, and I
all finished the garden. We built it up some more with rocks and filled it with
dirt and manure up to the top. We planted all the usual leafy green suspects
(mustard greens, swiss chard, etc.) in rows coming from the compost bag and
radiating outward. Cool, now I won’t be super deprived of vegetables. Coming
soon, I will attempt to plant carrot seeds in between the rows of leafy things,
just for kicks.
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