Hello Friends, wherever you are in this beautiful hemisphere, how are you in this smoldering March?
In the province of North Sumatra (part of Indonesia) in early March the sun shines very hot, the heat can be felt in the blood vessels, so that it can burn hemoglobin and red blood cells (a condition that causes us to get emotional easily). Because the weather is so hot, I decided to harvest fish in the pond, I keep carp in my pond, if not harvested immediately, the fish can die due to extreme weather and this is the best time to drain the pond.
three weeks after I harvested the fish in the pond, I very rarely visited the pond again, because I had no fish to feed. But friday (March 25) I have free time to visit the pond located in the garden beside the house.
I was very surprised to see that my garden was overrun by a lot of weeds which would make us emotional when we saw the state of the garden which was very messy. But I tried to calm down, because it was my fault that I had left the garden neglected and didn't take care of it after the fish harvest. I decided to tidy up the garden with Rais, my dear son. I deliberately invite him to garden so that from an early age he can love a green environment, so let's go gardening at the end of March which is smoldering by the scorching sun.
Saturday, March 26
I'll start pulling the weeds out, piling them together and I'll burn them with the plastic waste (in our area, that's how we tidy up the garden),
I tried to burn the scattered plastic waste and the weeds that I just pulled (because the weather is very hot, the grass that has just been pulled can be burned immediately). I also bought one hybrid coconut seed (a type of coconut that has a short tree and bears fruit at the age of 30 months), the price of coconut seeds is 10,000 rupiah (USD 0.71).
Sunday, March 27
Today is Sunday and its time for gardening😍
we only burn the rest of the garbage that hasn't burned down yesterday and pull out the remaining weeds.
Monday, March 28
I was only able to fix the garden in the afternoon after coming home from work and Rais came home from school, we are very excited to fix the bushy garden. We stockpile the rest of the leaf litter to turn it into compost and flatten the scattered soil around the garden. Rais started to make holes to plant the coconut tree seeds, today we make the holes and tomorrow we plant the coconut seeds. we don't plant the seeds right away, because the newly dug soil usually contains a lot of steam which is not good for plants, so we let the steam dissipate.
Tuesday, March 29
its time to plant coconut seeds, before the seeds are planted, first we cut the tip of the coconut, I do this so that the coconut grows fast.
After cutting the ends, it's time to plant coconut seedlings, Rais is very excited to plant coconuts, I told him that the coconuts will grow fast and bear fruit if Rais plants them (I hope the seeds will grow and bear fruit).
after planting don't forget to water it, because the weather is very hot.
That's all of our gardening journals at the end of March, we will start fixing other parts of the garden tomorrow, looks like we will start planting durian trees next week. see you next week plant lovers, heroes for the earth which is starting to become barren and hot because of the effects of greedy humans who burn forests and don't plant them again, until the earth becomes hot.
keep the spirit of gardening, even though it's summer in your country like mine, let's make our home green again, earth.