27Mar
Categories: Growing, People
My husband and I felt encouraged to start a home green house because we love the green color of nature and life. Brad has spent lots of time remodeling and adapting the building that is now a small green house making possible the existence of a place where plants can grow happily.
We delight on the growth of little seedlings and the idea of the future enjoyment of their fruit. Elisa likes watering the seedlings and observes them with cautiousness as she knows she is not allowed to touch them
Back to the country where I come from there are more things about nature to be impressed of other than the joy of just seen little sprouts come to blooming beautiful flowers and fruiting. Ecuador and his mountainous volcanic landscape, has granted fertility on the earth for many generations and flourished with life under a continuous season of warm weather, sunlight and rain. Things grow wildly and huge in the jungles, trees look like broccoli heads seen from above, fruit like papayas, watermelons and pineapples reach great sizes and the great variety of fruit makes us dream on its colors, textures and flavors.
We eagerly wait for the blooming of flowers and the joy of seeing again the good looking green leaves and fruit that once more will cover the ground of many gardens.
26Mar
Amazon Region.
Chankuap River.
Air view from the forest,
Under the rainforest
26Mar
Here some photos from Ecuadorian landscapes
Enjoy
This picture was taken on 2003. Brad and I went for a hike outside the small town of Tena.
A group of farmers and families share the land with variety of crops.
City market of Riobamba
22Mar
The leeks are loving their 30″wide by 20′ bed, and today we introduced onion transplants to the garden, red, yellow and white specialty varieties.
One major addition to the system this year will be a pressurized rain-water system, pumping the 6,000 gallons of stored snowmelt into the garden and postponing the need for groundwater. My spring break will be partially devoted to getting this system operational. Until then we are watering, slowly, by gravity, twice a week. Erika says she loves watering. It is a motherly thing to nurture with rainwater the billions of lives in the soil and the more noticable green lives sticking up above the soil.
08Mar
Categories: Growing, People
Early March is a good time to get leek transplants into the ground. They can handle the cold and the drying winds because we drop them in a hole 4″ deep where the moisture is more stable than the surface. Here is an example of a European veggie ideally suited to agriculture on the Plateau.
