"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will surely harvest later." - Og Mandino
Bountiful greetings to all the amazing people and gardeners of Hive! How are you today? I hope you are all well and healthy as I am about to share with you updates on my garden harvest. It is an extreme joy of every gardener when harvest season arrives nevertheless if it's small or many, it still a blessing!
If you have read my past blogs on gardening, you know already that I have had varieties of vegetable plants in my garden. Because of it, my students and I have been harvesting a lot from it already. We cooked most of them for our feeding activities and some were sold and we used the money to buy other ingredients for our cooking.
FLEXING HARVESTING MOMENTS...
I'll be summing up the harvest moments in my garden (Flexin' not to brag, but to inspire...) Let's start with our yummy green leafy veggie, spinach!
Every harvest of my spinach or Alogbate was not very much because the planting area is not big enough for it to thrive more. However, the joy it brings to my heart every time is immeasurable. All the hard work from planting to nurturing seemed to have paid off.
Enjoying the harvesting moment...😂🥰 What a blessing indeed!
My students and I had already enjoyed cooking and eating our spinach harvest every time during our feeding activities in school. We ate all together happily and what's great about eating together? It is when some students who didn't used to eat vegetables like spinach attempted to eat too and liked it😂.
Another harvesting moment is with my Petchay plant or Swamp Cabbage. This is so delicious!
When I harvested it, I only cut leaves from it to make the plant last longer. This is, for me, most delicious with meat or as one of the ingredients for meat soup🥰.
I only planted them on recycled empty plastic containers and big cans. It was very fulfilling to harvest a blessing from plants you planted yourself.
YES! SWEET POTATO TOPS AND LEAVES...
If you have heard about Sweet Potato Tops being edible, well, it is true. There are many varieties of sweet potatoes also known in our locality as Camote. There are big leaves and small elongated leaves. There are also green and purple colors of leaves yet all are edible.
It is categorized as root crop rather than a vegetable but locals in our place consider its tops and leaves a vegetable. It is very easy to plant and less nurturing...hehe! You can harvest any time because the more you cut its top, the more it yields.
Ipomoea aquatica also known as Kangkong in our locality is one of my favorites. It is very easy and fast to grow. It is best in stews and also sautéed with oyster sauce.
What amazed me is how fast it grows. Harvest now, 3 weeks after, it grows back again ready for another harvest!
I couldn't believe that moment while I was harvesting! Who could have imagined that very tiny seeds would thrive this bountiful?
Splendid harvesting experience, right!? Looking at my harvested vegetables took off my stress...haha! And my students were very glad because it could mean a sumptuous viand for our lunch!
It was great to harvest a little bit of everything in the garden. Now becomes memories of unforgettable experiences and garden moments meant to be cherished. Part of those moments with my students are lessons that I was able to inculcate in their hearts and taught them by example the importance of gardening in our lives.
Nowadays, it is vital to ignite student's interest in gardening especially in the advent of these attention- seeking technologies. Teachers, parents, and the community must work together to make this happen. It should be learned by heart that it is way more important than any advanced gadget or machinery. Let us make them understand and lived that farming or gardening is one of the answers to food sustainability! Let us teach our young children not only how to eat but also how to make one, and that is planting. Plant a seed and you will surely harvest a blessing! And it should start at home.
That's all for now Hive friends! I hope you find this post worthy of your precious time. This is 