Week 19 & 28: Planting a Garden

Our gardener has a cleared an area for a vegetable garden under the papaya tree. We got  seeds from another diplomat family, and then prepared planters for seedlings. Every day, Sam would check the pots to see if anything had sprouted yet. He also planted a seed from a lichia fruit.

The soil here is very red and not very rich in nutrients. We visited a nearby nursery and purchased a few bags of soil and compost, and then we had our gardener mix that in with the soil.

The seeds grew well, and we have recently enjoyed green beans, zucchini squash and lettuce. The basil and corn are also growing well, but we've yet to harvest ears of corn. The corn on the cob here has large, tough kernels, and is more like the feed corn in the U.S. than the sweet corn used for human consumption.