Hello, partners of the HiveGarden community! This time I stopped by to share my latest activities in the backyard, as well as to tell you about the plans that I have for the future.
To begin with, I am pleased to share with you guys that finally I had the time and I got help in pruning the grass to get the garden tidy. The guy who has the automatic mower came last week and while he was cutting everything, I was picking up the green waste.
I have manifested with you before my wish of making compost, for which it would be nice to use these types of organic waste like grass, but yet I have not gotten the time or the resources to build or buy a composting system, so that is a plan that I still keep on the list for the near future to come.
At the request of my boyfriend, we got rid of the monstrous squash plant, and before chopping it, of course, we ripped the two fantastic squashes that it gave us after 3-4 months of growing.
It is so rewarding when you take the seed of some fruit that you buy, you sow it, and after taking care of the plant you get fruits exactly like the one you bought. This was the first time that I cultivated squash because some months ago, I did not have this backyard, and this fruit and plant are not very common in Venezuela where I'm from.
In my small Arbolarium, where I keep small pots containing growing seeds and palms, I am excited to see how many palm seeds have germinated and the seedlings are emerging into tiny cute palms that I will have to transplant into big pots soon for them to grow more.
As I have shared before with you, I love palm trees, and whenever I see one with seeds I pick them up and now I have something like 15 seedlings. Palm trees are not easy to grow, they get sick if you water them too much, and also if they get too exposed to sunlight, especially in the first stages, they fade out quickly. Another particularity about palm trees is that it seems that their growth speed is linked to the depth of the recipient where they are put, for example, I have placed palm seedlings before into flowerpots of 4 L capacity, and they grew less in months compared with the same size seedling that I transplanted to an 11 L flowerpot.
This is the plant from where I got most of the seeds that I sowed to get the seedlings that I have now.
So, for these little palm trees, I will need plenty of rich soil and new containers for transplanting them. I would and could place them directly on the soil of my backyard, but I am here living on rent, so there is no way of knowing for how long I will be able to take care of them, and then, I'd hate to leave them behind.
My project with the trees, like the Japanese Medlar, the palm trees, oak trees, Cypresses, is to try and grow as many as I can until I can give them to people who might transplant the tree in a definitive place and take care of them and maybe some will reach adult sizes.
Once in a while, I spray all the seedlings that I have with an organic repellent called Neem which is used to keep small bugs out so that they don't eat all the seedlings that I have because I believe that small fruit flies are responsible for some of my seedlings to get brownish leaves, and even some have completely withered.
So, to add even more variety and hope to my project, I decided it was time again to sow some more seeds, this time I sowed a couple of peach seeds, many seeds also from a very big tree that is very common in Buenos Aires and which name I don't know (lol), and also to make the most of the warm weather that remains until April or May, I decided to sow the seeds from my old coriander plant that I collected some weeks ago.
This is the tree that I got the seeds from to sow this time.
My previous Coriander plant with the seeds.
I had to crush the peach seeds in order to get the little seeds to sow directly.
I still have many plans and visions for the future of my garden, like installing a proper Water hose so it will be easier to water my plants because so far I am doing it with an improvised plastic can and it works but I have to fill it up many times and it is a little bit exhausting.
I see my garden filled with lavender flowers, more roses, and other varieties of flowers, aromatic herbs, and I also very much would like to get Ferns and other types of plants that I like, as vines, for which I would have to manage to build some kind of structure for it to be able to climb and tangle up.
I'll tag along 
I wish you all an excellent rest of the week! Greetings and until next time. Thanks for your time if you stopped by to check on this.
Cesar.