I had grown some vegetables before in our backyard before another supposedly a bakery was built and later turned into a store and then converted into my brother's house which was finally sold and transferred to my sister now while the owner off the lot was my father.
But I did planted some eggplants there which I even manually pollenize myself. It yielded an oblong-shaped small eggplant that my mother would put on top of a steaming rice. It is delicious eaten that way with some added viand or if you are hungry just some fish sauce will give you a satisfying meal, out of a backyard farmed eggplant.
Then I also tried to cultivate a yam grown in a sack of a fine pumice sand with an added soil. I let the vine crawl up our tall tree and it had it sunshine up there while below a big 4.5 kilogram yam was developing. It took about less than a year before it was harvested and I sold some to my neighbor.
Next was the Passion fruit or the "Granada " as we call it. I think it is similar to pomegranate and after my neighbor gave us some that I had made into a juice. I just fell in-love with the taste. I thought to grow the seeds and I managed to grow one vine so I even made a trellis for it so it could creep there. But after my father came home he begun to clear things out saying that it will be a snake lair. So my dreams of having a grenadine juice faded away. And I got angry secretly with my father after that.
The yam was my success as I had discovered that it can be successfully grown in a 90% pumice sand and soil. Then the eggplants because we managed to reap its fruits and getting satisfied and not with the eggplants of my father that he takes before it is fully matured to be harvested.
There was also red hot chili peppers which we use when we like hot sauces and dishes to be made. The leaves can also be used as an additional stuffing for grilling milkfish which is delicious as it was nutritious too. The leaves can also be used in other soupy dishes like the chicken stew with ginger.
Okras are the ones that I also planted nd they are just so easy to cultivate and will grow anywhere. I also had grown a guava tree but after my father again just keeps whacking its branches citing that our neighbor is annoyed with its branches going over the fence but our neighbor isn't complaining. To my dismay I pulled the tree to its roots because it will be just a useless tree without branches.
After my father just are interfering about my plants and also there wasn't much land to plant anymore around the house I stopped all my planting, since I am sick already too. I just missed growing stuffs around the backyard because it is so fulfilling come the harvest time. My mother even told me that I have a green thumb because almost all what I planted grew and got utilized by us.
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