Garden Update: Our Risk is Blooming!

Hello gardeners! I’m thrilled to share a little update on my garden with you all😃

It’s one thing to have a garden and another thing to ensure your garden is thriving.
Our garden is doing so well, blooming and flourishing. It’s all thanks to my aunt for constantly tending to it. Without her, a lot of the plants would have died.

Gardening is her hobby, and she doesn’t fail to experiment with new seeds every now and then.

For a long time, we’ve only grown simple plants like pepper, tomatoes, water leaf, vegetables, and a few others but this time we decided to take it a bit further by planting cassava maize, and yam. Yes, we decided to take the risk, and we can say our “risk” is blooming guys hehehehe.

We were reluctant to grow these plants for a long time, as we didn’t know the best season to plant them nor did we know how to tend to them but an acquaintance of ours was kind enough to guide us through the entire process.

We’ve always left the garden for my aunt to tend to, but lately I have been helping her out since I am at home.

We planted maize, yam, and cassava recently, and it’s safe to say that they are doing well.

As much as I enjoy staring at these plants, which are literally a product of my sweat and effort, I still can’t get over the days we have to weed the garden. Weeding is so hard, I hate weeding but I still have to do it, regardless.

With the constant rainfall this period, the weeds keep growing faster and bigger, making us weed more which I find annoying but that’s the price we have to pay, right?

Other than the weeds, I love how all the plants in our garden are growing healthy.

It feels just like yesterday when I assisted my aunt in planting some of these plants, and seeing them grow gives me so much joy.

Sometimes I wish I had a magic wand to make them ripe and ready for harvest in no time, but nah, where’s the fun in that?
So I’m trusting the process and I am praying that they all survive.

I can’t wait to harvest the maize as I have waited so long to eat one grown and harvested by me instead of buying from the market, fingers crossed guys!

For the cassava, I don’t know what plans my Aunt has for it. If she is going to make garri out of the cassava or simply sell it, but there’s always a first time for everything right? We shall see.

While my Aunt and I wait for our little plants to mature, we will diligently tend to them and make sure they all grow healthy.

So this is a little update of what is going on in our garden AKA my “Aunt’s Garden”.

Over to you my fellow gardeners: What’s been happening in your garden? I’ll love to read your garden stories in the comments.

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Thanks for stopping by
Loads of Love🥰🥰
XOXO