"Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience." - Marina Schinz
A wonderful greeting to all the beautiful people in the Hive! At the most wonderful time of the year, I hope you all are fine, happy, and blessed. Today, my blog is an entry for the Hive Garden community's last garden challenge before 2022 ends.
In my previous garden blogs, I wrote about my school garden. This time I will be flexing what's going on with my small garden at home😂. Honestly, after the unusual garden incident that I shared with you on the comment challenge three weeks ago(where my little son cut off everything in my garden), I got disappointed and did not mind so much about it. I have been very busy too with school-related work so I was not able to give enough time to it.
After attending to my laundry last weekend, I got a chance to take a good look at my small garden at home. I felt sad about it.
Then I remembered from past experiences that gardening is indeed an exercise in optimism so I decided to start all over again with the hope and positivity in my heart to make it better and to grow my garden back alive. I know it would be hard, but I had to start somewhere, right?
I started with changing pots and soil...
And saved some plants for replanting (I have saved some of my lemon grass).
Looks like I need more soil and organic fertilizers...
It's been a tiring day so I decided to continue all the work the next day.
I sacrificed my rest day to continue reviving my small garden at home. I started early before the heat of the sun reaches its peak temperature.
I took a break for a while. I've been sweating a lot. Cultivating the soil is certainly not a joke. It requires a lot of hard work, literally 😅.
Well, while resting I took the chance to clean the lemongrass I saved the other day (don't want to waste time, there are still so many things to be done.)
After which, I set it to be planted in the area I prepared.
Tadaaah! At last, I have seen something done...😂 Seeing it already planted made me feel slightly relieved from the tiresome activity.
There is still a lot to do. But I have decided NOT to finish it all in a day because that would be impossible and I would just pressure and disappoint myself 😂.
So, I set aside the soil I gathered in a big basin (not used because the bottom was already broken). I would go back to it when I can gather organic fertilizers hopefully soon. I also need to plant my available vegetable seeds and grow new seedlings, which would take a little while (enough time for me to prepare the planting area and the needed pots).
In the meantime, I surveyed again my small garden area.
My ginger plants are growing well and are healthy🥰...
I also trimmed my marcotted Calamansi (citrus) tree🥰
My spinach is getting matured. I knew it when it bears flowers and fruits. I just let it riped and falls to the ground to grow new spinach seedlings (I would have new seedlings by then ready to be planted).
And I called it a day😂. As I said, I will just stress myself if I want it all done in a day or two. Gardening is not as easy as you think. It takes a lot of effort, time, hope, and patience. So to all the gardeners around the world, I salute you all for a job very well done.
That's all for today Hive friends! I hope you enjoyed my "starting over again" story. I also hope you find this worthy of your precious time and if so, reblogging is much appreciated, THANK YOU!😂🥰.
Thank you so much! See you in my next blog. Sending my best regards and my warm big hugs!🥰 God bless everyone!